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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
This tool lists words in an HTML document, either uploaded by the user or from a web address. List Words works with relatively small texts of under a megabyte in size. It is part of the TAPoRware collection of tools; there are XML and plain text versions available as well. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
Visualization
LodLive is a web-based tool developed to demonstrate Linked Data standards applied to browsing RDF resources with a simple interface. Users can search preset datasets, including DBpedia and Freebase, or search a resource available at a web address of the user's choice. LodLive is also available for download.
Publishing
Omeka.net provides a web-publishing platform to curate collections and create exhibitions of digitized content. Omeka.net has grown out of the Omeka project. Omeka.net provides some of the same functionality as Omeka, but does not require the user to provide hosting or to maintain their installation in any way. However, use of Omeka.net limits customization, and hosting more than 500MB of content requires a paid account. Objects in the collection can be cataloged with Dublin core metadata fields and georeferenced for display on a map. Omeka.net includes several plugins, including COinS (which makes objects in Omeka accessible to citations management software, like Zotero), HTML5 Media (to play audio and video), and Library of Congress Suggest (which will auto-populate fields with LoC authority and subject headings).
Visualization
R is an open source programing language designed for statistical analysis and parallel computing. R began its life as a research project at the University of Aukland, but has since expanded to become a collaborativly run open source project run by the GNU. R has libraries for data import, regular expression data splitting, and visualization of data. R can be run as either a script or as a working environment.
Search
TextGrid is a virtual research environment for text-based humanities scholarship. It offers a variety of tools and services for collaboratively creating, analyzing, editing and publishing texts. The TextGrid environment is split into two components, the Laboratory housing the tools and services, and the Repository for preserving reserach data and making it available to other scholars.
Visualization
Virtue and Vice, from the Visualizing Literature toolset, allows users to select a text from Visualizing Literature's list of grade school curriculum exemplar creative commons texts and graph out all instances of words suggestive of virtue and vice within the text. All texts are searchable, and can be sorted by writer, title, publication year, grade level, availability for analysis and availablility of a direct link to the text. Please note that, as this toolset is still in beta, the selection of texts is currently limited, though over 300 texts are forthcoming. As of 2014, this toolset is no longer available as the website has been taken down. It may still be viewed via the Internet Archive.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 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.
4 tools
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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.
3 tools
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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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