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TAPoR 4.0 is expected to include a redesigned user interface, AI integration, and private tool lists that users create for themselves. This pre-release includes the redesigned interface. AI integration and private tool lists will follow in a later release.
TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval. Please contribute. Ways to contribute are listed below.
The project is led by Geoffrey Rockwell. The site is designed and developed by the Arts Resource Centre at the University of Alberta. We remember co-lead Stéfan Sinclair, who died on August 6, 2020. Support for this project came from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada), WestGrid, the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, the University of Alberta, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
TAPoR 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 are no longer available. This pre-release succeeds TAPoR 3.0.
Individuals who contributed to past releases of TAPoR include Milena Radzikowska, Omar Rodriquez-Arenas, Kamal Ranaweera, Mark McKellar, Amy Dyrbye, Kaitlyn Grant, Holly H. Pickering, Chaolan Wu, Jingwei Wang, Kynan Ly, Antony Owino, Jason Bradshaw, Jinman Zhang, Robert Budac, Quinn Dombrowski, Shawn Day, Lisa Goddard, and Bennett Tchoh.
A later release of TAPoR 4.0 will add:
The TaDiRAH taxonomy was included in TAPoR during the last version, TAPoR 3.0. That version was redesigned in order to integrate the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) Directory. The integration was managed by Kaitlyn Grant, with help from Quinn Dombrowski, and programming by Omar Rodriquez-Arenas. With that integration, TAPoR uses the TaDiRAH Goals and Methods tags to categorize tools.
TAPoR was originally created as a directory of tools used for text analysis. It has since grown to include a far greater range of tools, including code snippets that can do the work of tools. In 2018 TAPoR absorbed the DiRT project (Digital Research Tools) and now includes tools that work on non-textual data and tools that provide services used by digital humanists. TAPoR 4.0 continues that range. This evolution largely reflects that of the field of digital humanities. Below are some broad domains of tools and services we include in TAPoR, with examples.
The rise in the use of information and communication technology has brought about new ways of publishing information, including research. Publishing tools are used by digital humanists to share research and to create new types of online research resources. Examples:
Many humanities disciplines deal with human expression and communication. For this reason we use and study communication tools, especially those that propose novel ways of communicating or managing digital humanities projects. Examples:
Digital humanists create digital research resources, many of which are made available to the public for free use. Repositories and archiving tools are useful for building and maintaining research resources. Individual digital archives also become tools for further research. Examples:
Digital humanists now commonly use geographical information systems to visualize spatial data. Research can be explored by geographical region using GIS. Examples:
Browsers are the main gateways used to access resources over the internet. Most browsers allow the addition of extensions. Extensions permit more customization, which increases the functionality of the browser. Many extensions are useful to digital humanists and were created by them. Examples:
The humanities are not only concerned with text. Music deals with sound, and in history images are frequently studied. Digital humanists in these fields use tools to edit, analyse, produce, and publish multimedia objects. Examples:
Digital humanists develop resources and tools. For this reason we are interested in development tools that are useful specifically for digital humanities development. Examples:
The domains discussed are main examples. They are far from exhaustive, given the continuous creation of new tools and services and the changes in digital humanities.
We have designed TAPoR so you can contribute.
We are looking for associate editors who would take on the management of an annotated list around a specific discipline, need, audience, theme, or technology. If selected, you would add entries for tools that fit the profile and manage a list with annotations that guide people. Send a short proposal to Geoffrey Rockwell at the University of Alberta.