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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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Analysis
COCOA was a program and markup language for generating word counts and concordances written in FORTRAN, from the University College Cardiff and the Atlas Computer Laboratory. It produced keyword-in-context concordances and word frequency profiles for texts, and was considered to be a powerful, highly flexible program for punched card computers.
Annotating
CAT is an environment for group coding and analyzing data sets, including computing inter-rater reliability. Users can create a free account, or download the ASP.NET tool suite to run independently.
Visualization
Coggle is a web-based tool for visualizing and applying non-linear structuring to information. Though Coggle has been used for mind mapping, it is primarily a method of documenting branching and non-linear information, and encompassing multiple perspectives. It utlizes a drag and drop interface for integrating images, permits multiple users to edit at the same time without causing data conflicts, and supports Markdown and LaTeX formatting. Coggle diagrams can be interlinked, branches of one diagram can be spawned off into its own diagram connected back to the original, and individual branches can be linked via hashtags. The tool includes an API that permits users to interface their diagrams with other programs and manupulate or examine them, and diagrams can also be exported in various formats such as plain-text outline, vector PDFs or images. Coggle is free except where users require more than 100 monthly active users or a closed source version.
Analysis
COGS-3 was a general-purpose concordance program for IBM and DEC mainframe computers at the University of Toronto. It was developed in the 1980s in PL/I and also included a lemmatization feature.
Capture
Collate was a program designed for scholars concerned with the difficulties of medieval vernacular traditions. It aimed to help scholars with the preparation of critical editions, and could collate up to a hundred texts. Collate was also capable of handling marked up text. It was available for Macintosh only, and could be purchased directly from its creator.
Analysis
CollateX is a free Java library for collating texts offered by Interedition, designed to be the successor to Peter Robinson's Collate. It uses a component-oriented architecture, to enable users to mix and match components according to their needs. Though its core library is Java, it also integrates a demo web application, a demo client application and Python language bindings that allow CollateX to be embedded into Python applications.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
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Geoffrey Rockwell
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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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