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TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.
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A simple command line tool for expanding warc files. Warc files are archives of webpages, as provided by the Internet Archive. Input is warc files and output can either be a warc file or as faithful a recreation of the website(s) contained within the warc file as can be managed.
Analysis
WATCON was a program used extensively at the University of Waterloo for humanities research in the 1970s. It was developed by Philip H. Smith Jr. and WATCHUM (Waterloo Computing in the Humanities) as a text-handling package with concordance applications, and can be regarded as a descendent of the Scharfenberg-Smith Concordance Program.
Visualization
A software tool for the manipulation of audio recordings. Wavesurfer provides basic audio editing function, such as excision, copying, pasting, zero-crossing adjustment, and effects such as fading, normalization, echo, inversion, reversal, replacement with silence, and DC-removal. Features: Audio format support, including WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, Ogg/Vorbis, and NIST/Sphere Read/write support for HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat transcription formats Direct-to-disk playback/recording enabling use of audio recordings larger than available memory Plug-in architecture built-in script interpreter
Visualization
WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment) is a web-based visualization platform offered by the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. It is designed to visualize any data for any purpose, and to accommodate novice and advanced users alike. It includes the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at nested levels of geography. WEAVE is currently in beta. Both a web-based demo and a download version are available.
Enrichment
This tool removes all HTML formatting from a web page or an uploaded HTML file, leaving the text for further processing. It is particularly good for preparing text-intensive web pages for analysis as plain text.
Gathering
WebClust is a meta search engine that clusters documents into meaningful groups. WebClust presents search results in a horizontal topical arrangement, in addition to a single vertical list. WebClust's data mining technique is meant to make sense of large amounts of textual information extracted from the web, including digital libraries.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
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Holly Pickering
Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.
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Jason Bradshaw
This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca
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