For researchers who work with text
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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Dissemination
HearPlanet is a real-time audio tour guide. This application plays audio tracks based on points of interest surrounding your current location; it pulls from Wikipedia as well as user-created content and other partners. Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android OS.
Capture
Heritrix is web crawler used by the Internet Archive, which provides a web-based user interface after initial configuration on a Linux machine. Also used by the Library of Congress, Heritrix captures metadata in the Web ARChive (WARC) format.
Analysis
This software scans a Word DOCX file or a text file (including HTML and XML files) with text encoded via ANSI or UTF-8 and counts the frequencies of different words. The words which are found and displayed can be ordered alphabetically or by frequency. Characters which can appear in words can be specified, so the program can be told to allow or disallow words with numerals, hyphens, apostrophes, underscores or colons, to ignore words which are short or which occur infrequently, to treat upper/lower case as significant or not, and to ignore words (e.g., common words such as 'this', a.k.a. stop words) contained in a specified file. This software may be used with text in most European languages. The language of the text is detected automatically and (if supported) the corresponding stop words file is optionally loaded. Results can be exported to Excel for further processing. There is also an Advanced Version with greater functionality.
Analysis
This software scans one or many Word DOCX, text and text-like files (e.g. HTML and XML files) and counts the number of occurrences of the different words or phrases. There is no limit on the size of an input text file. The words/phrases which are found can be displayed alphabetically or by frequency. The program can be told to allow or disallow words with numerals, hyphens, apostrophes, underscores or colons, to ignore words which are short or which occur infrequently, and to ignore words (e.g., common words such as 'the', a.k.a. stop words) contained in a specified file. It can also count only words or phrases in a specified list (optionally with pattern-matching). Results can be exported to Excel for further processing. The program works with text in most European languages, and supports the use of regular expressions for specifying words/phrases to count.
Visualization
Highcharts is a battle-tested SVG-based, multi-platform charting library that has been actively developed since 2009. It makes it easy to add interactive, mobile-optimized charts to your web and mobile projects. It features robust documentation, advanced responsiveness and industry-leading accessibility support.
Publishing
Historypin is a digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections. Users are able to use the location and date of their content to "pin" it to Google Maps. Where Google Street View is available, users can overlay historical photographs and compare it with the contemporary location. This content can be added and explored online and via a series of Smartphone applications
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.
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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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