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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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forTEXT

forTEXT is a free web service, which helps scholars who are interested in the Digital Humanities to choose digital methods and tools according to their research setting. forTEXT is especially designed for scholars with no or little experience in the field of Digital Humanities. The focus currently lies on literature studies and language, but will be broadened in the future. forTEXT provides scientific insights into traditions and techniques of the Digital Humanities and offers video and text tutorials as well as teaching materials. Currently, forTEXT offers content in German, but is going to be translated into English and other languages soon.

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FORTRAN

FORTRAN (from 'formula translating system') was a major programming language first developed by IBM in the late 1950s. While originally intended for science and engineering, with substantial drawbacks for users seeking to conduct text processing, its wide availability in academic computing centres neverthless made it an attractive choice for Humanities scholars seeking to automate research processes.

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FotoFlexer

Web-based image editing with special effects and image manipulation features that can import content from PhotoBucket, Facebook, MySpace, Picasa, Flickr, Phanfare, or Smugmug. A free account is needed to save images. FotoFlexer also offers an Open API to provide a simple interface for external websites to use the editing features - no API keys, REST or SOAP.

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FramebyFrame

FramebyFrame is a basic application to create stopmotion with your webcam. Currently it works with only Mac computers. Many reviewers complained of the app crashing frequently.

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FRANTEXT / Stella

FRANTEXT is a historically and culturally important database of French literary, philosophical and technical texts with an emphasis on diversity and representation, spanning the Middle Ages to the present, and offered on a subscription basis. This resource is aimed at linguists and literary scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and is notable for its inclusion of a powerful search engine called Stella. Stella is a sophisticated NLP search suite, and includes regular expression search, lemmatization, vocabulary list and entity categorization functions.

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Freebase

Freebase was "an open, Creative Commons Attribution (aka CC-BY) licensed collection of structured data," and a "platform for accessing and manipulating that data" via API. Almost 40 million entities and assertions about those entities are stored within a graph database. The database was built by pulling in open data and relies on community contribution to stay updated. Freebase was part of the semantic web and emits Linked Open Data (via RDF) for all its entities.

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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.

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Holly 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.

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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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