Tools

Collaboration

FromThePage

FromThePage is a free software for manuscript transcription, allowing volunteers to transcribe document pages online. Transcriptions can then be marked up and annotated in a wiki-like enviroment, with the resultant text displayed on the public web. It includes a discussion environment, enabling collaboration on particularly difficult pages. FromThePage is currently in beta, permitting up to 100 pages per project, and is in the process of developing a paid version for larger projects requiring more server space, with price determined primarily by server and maintenance costs. Privacy features are also under development, and further features forthcoming based on feedback from users.

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GapVis

GapVis is a free tool developed in conjunction with Google Ancient Places to visualize the locations within and allow the exploration of books referencing ancient places within the Google Books collection. Users can view text summaries, use an enhanced reading interface and explore the location references through a place detail view. It is intended both to enable location-based text discovery, and to allow users to delve more deeply into a text based on the locations referenced within it. GapVis is currently in beta.

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Natural Language Processing

Trend Miner

Trend Miner is a tool designed to enable portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarizing of large-scale stream media. It combines elements from natural language processing, knowledge-based reasoning, machine learning, economics and political science. It is designed to access and interpret data from sources such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

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Visualization

Textal

Textal is a text analysis app for the iPhone and iPad offered by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. It creates word clouds from texts, websites, tweets and documents, then allows users to explore the statistics and relationships between words in the text. As a tool, it is intended as an introduction to to text analysis while expanding the functionality traditionally implemented in word clouds.

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Transana

Transana is a free, open source program offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Education Research for transcribing and analyzing large collections of video and audio data aimed at academic researchers. It enables users to manually transcribe in a variety of levels of detail, identify and access analytically significant sections of their data, manage collections, organize video clips into categories, apply keywords to sections or clips, generate graphical or textual reports, data mine and share markup.

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Visualization

NVivo

NVivo is a commercial software package for creating workspaces and corpuses. Its features include importing YouTube videos and comments, social media posts and discussions, web page and PDF capture, multiple language support and support for a wide variety of data formats such as spreadsheets, images, database tables and so on. Users can query their data in a variety of ways, annotate, cross-link and visualize connections, ideas and findings with charts, maps and models

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English Metrics

English Metrics is a free tutorial on English metrics, first written in Hypercard and maintained in a StackRunner version for both OS X and Windows environments. It traces the process of scanning iambic pentameter, and includes reference and exercise material for a range of metrical patterns.

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Natural Language Processing

The Scandroid 1.1

The Scandroid is a free program released under the GNU Public License for OS X and Windows environments designed to scan English verse in iambic and anapestic meters, either from a text file or entered by hand. The program explains its process as it scans the text, such as identifying syllables or lexical stresses, or dividing lines into feet, so users can learn about its analysis in addition from its output.

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Natural Language Processing

Prose (Virtual Muse)

Prose is a free program for OS X and Windows written in Python and designed to generate random sentences. Originally described in Charles O. Hartman's book Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry , it illustrates one approach to using computer programs as adjuncts to the process of composing poetry.

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Analysis

Concord, the Interactive Concordance Generator (Virtual Muse)

Concord is a free concordance generator written in Python for OS X and Windows XP (a new Windows version is forthcoming). It generates a KWIC concordance entry from a plain-text file for any word or phrase and permits sorting in a variety of ways. Concord can handle large text files, and preliminary testing with the modern Greek alphabet shows it supports non-Latin alphabets. This tool is described in Chris O. Hartman's book Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry .

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