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YAGO
YAGO is a semantic knowledge base of over 10 million entities, and over 120 million facts about those entities, developed by the Max Planck Institut Informatik. Its base derives from Wikipedia, WordNet and GeoNames, and the accuaracy has not only been manually evaluated, but relations are also provided with an annotation stating its confidence value. The YAGO ontology includes spacial and temporal dimensions, and integrates WordNet's thematic domains as well. It can be queried or browsed right from the website, and the full ontology is available for download.
Publishing
Yāna
Yāna provides a free, open-source template that open access journals can use as the basis of their own multi-platform mobile applications. The Yāna template provides the basic functionality required by any journal operating on a mobile platform.
Visualization
yED Files
yWorks is a powerful set of tools for creating diagrams using any number of frameworks. There are tools for working with HTML, FLEX, AJAX, Silverlight, Java and .NET. yEd is also available from the yWorks site. This free graph editor can be used to create diagrams manually, or to import data for analysis.
Yojimbo
Yojimbo is an information organizer software that allows you to store text, images, PDFs, and passwords; organize information with tags and labels; export a copy of your data to your mobile device; and search all of Yojimbo content. Licenses available for individual, family, or educational use.
Analysis
Yoshikoder
Yoshikoder is a free, open source cross-platform content analysis program. It works with text documents to apply basic content analysis in any language, examine KWIC, generate summaries and generate content analysis dictionaries.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 Nov
This week’s tools
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Cool Voyant Tools
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
4 tools
View listHolly Pickering
Audio Production Software
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.
3 tools
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Jason Bradshaw
TATR: Text Analysis for Twitter Research
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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