Tools

Visualization

Word Brush - Beta (TAPoRware)

This tool is a Java applet that allows the user to paint with words extracted from an online document. Java 1.4.2_08 or newer is required.

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CAPs Finder - Beta (TAPoRware)

This tool finds groups of capital letters (CAPs) in a user-specified plain text file. If the user submits an XML or HTML document, the tool will strip all tags and then process it as plain text. XML and HTML versions are not currently available.

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Search

Keywords Finder - Beta (TAPoRware)

This tool identifies keywords or key phrases within a user-specified text, using the assumption that they will appear with the greatest frequency. It applies a stemmer to every word. Plain text input is recommended. All tags will be stripped from an HTML or XML file submitted, and the resulting document will be processed as if it were plain text. Please note: This tool takes a few minutes to process a given document. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

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Analysis

Compare With Control - Beta (TAPoRware)

This tool compare the text submitted by the user with a predefined control corpus. The tool lists the words common in both texts, in an order set by the user. At present, the tool only offers the Brown Corpus, with more predefined control corpus forthcoming. Users can also upload a text of their own as control corpus. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

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Enrichment

Web Page Cleaner - Beta (TAPoRware)

This tool removes all HTML formatting from a web page or an uploaded HTML file, leaving the text for further processing. It is particularly good for preparing text-intensive web pages for analysis as plain text.

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Search

CHNM: Scribe

Scribe, now in version 3.5, is a free note-taking program available for both PC and Mac. Aimed particularly at historians, this program allows researchers to create digital note cards for managing sources, research notes, contacts, images, glossaries, outlines, timelines and more. Furthermore, it enables organization, keyword indexing, searching, linking and cross-referencing of all entries. Entries can be entered directly or imported from online catalogues such as Amazon.com. Information entered in Scribe can be exported directly to Zotero in addition to assembling, printing or copying formatted bibliographies directly from the program. Articles can be stored directly within the program, enabling researchers to search out and highlight particular words within the text in addition to the relevant researcher notes.

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Anthologize

Anthologize is a free, open-source plugin for WordPress 3.0. It enables WordPress to be used as a platform for publishing electronic texts in PDF, ePUB or TEI format. The plugin enables users to grab their existing blog posts, export content from external feeds or compose new content directly in Anthologize, then apply outlining, create a custom order, and edit content into a single document for export. Anthologize requires a self-hosted or local installation of WordPress.

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Search

Flamenco Search

Flamenco Search is a downloadable web-based interface from the UC Berkley School of Information based in Python, designed to run on a server. It streamlines the browsing of large collections. It is particularly valuable for items such as documents or images, enabling website visitors to explore content via a hierarchy of categories and subcategories called facets. Users can assign keywords and metadata which is then used to guide site visitors to the choices that best meet their interests, while allowing them to refine or expand their query and remain oriented in relation to the rest of the collection.

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Publishing

Commentpress

Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for Wordpress 3.3.1 or later designed to enable readers to contribute comments to each paragraph of a text and display those comments in the margins. Commentpress turns a text into a conversation, whether a blog or a fixed document such as an essay, book or article. It may also be used to add a gloss or annotations to a document. This tool is also available for BuddyPress and BP Group Blog.

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Publishing

TILE (Text Image Linking Environment)

The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool that enables users to select regions of an image and link them to text. TILE is a system for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and connecting them to digital archives of the texts. It has been designed for easy modification by integrating a plugin infrastructure.

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