Virtue and Vice, from the Visualizing Literature toolset, allows users to select a text from Visualizing Literature's list of grade school curriculum exemplar creative commons texts and graph out all instances of words suggestive of virtue and vice within the text. All texts are searchable, and can be sorted by writer, title, publication year, grade level, availability for analysis and availablility of a direct link to the text. Please note that, as this toolset is still in beta, the selection of texts is currently limited, though over 300 texts are forthcoming. As of 2014, this toolset is no longer available as the website has been taken down. It may still be viewed via the Internet Archive.
Adjectives in the Book, from the Visualizing Literature toolset, allows users to select a text from Visualizing Literature's list of grade school curriculum exemplar creative commons texts and visualize the most common adjectives within the text. Users can search the whole text or chapter by chapter, and incude or exclude stopwords in the results. All texts are searchable, and can be sorted by writer, title, publication year, grade level, availability for analysis and availablility of a direct link to the text. Please note that, as this toolset is still in beta, the selection of texts is currently limited, though over 300 texts are forthcoming. As of 2014, this toolset is no longer available as the website has been taken down. It may still be viewed via the Internet Archive.
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Visualizing Literature: Adjectives and Character (Treemap)
Adjectives and Character (Treemap), from the Visualizing Literature toolset, allows users to select a text from Visualizing Literature's list of grade school curriculum exemplar creative commons texts and search for a character name from the text. The results visualize the most common adjectives associated with that character, and may include or exclude stopwords. All texts are searchable, and can be sorted by writer, title, publication year, grade level, availability for analysis and availablility of a direct link to the text. Please note that, as this toolset is still in beta, the selection of texts is currently limited, though over 300 texts are forthcoming. As of 2014, this toolset is no longer available as the website has been taken down. It may still be viewed via the Internet Archive.
This prototype was produced as a proof-of-concept for the Criminal Intent project. It allows the records of the Old Bailey Online project to be searched such that the returned results can be viewed as either a timeline or a concordance of terms. The tool allows for reasonably complex queries to be placed and a range of different formats for the returned charts to be selected. The tool is primarily built with Python and SQLite and makes use of the Google Chart API for some output options.
I Write Like is a free, web-based text analysis tool that compares a user-provided text to the prose of well-known writers using statistics, word choice and writing style analysis. It then reports on which writer the text most resembles. The tool requires at least two paragraphs of text for best results. At this time, the results are limited to the name of a writer, without offering more detailed insight into the analysis; the tool appears to be offered primarily to promote the Memoires journaling software.
Bookworm is a free tool from the Harvard Cultural Observatory designed to generate data from searches on the Open Library and Internet Archives' collections of public domain books. It allows users to search keywords, including in multiple languages simultaneously, and narrow terms by country, gender, subject and header. At present, Bookworm is restricted to searching books published between 1820 and 1920 due to availabliity. The tool produces a graph showing instances of each keyword over time, enabling easy comparison of results.
The brat rapid annotation tool is an online environment for collaborative structured annotation of texts. It can be run in a browser (optimized for Chrome and Safari) or downloaded for local installation. It can be used for a variety of annotation tasks, from identitifying natural language entities to chunking to adding metadata.
Edit Flow is a free, open source WordPress plugin designed for editorial collaboration. It includes a private discussion environment, metadata management and workflow tools.
Philologic is a free, open source full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool developed by the ARTFL Project and the Digital Library Development Centre, at the University of Chicago. This tool supports a wide variety of XML and SGML encoded documents, in addition to plain text, Dublin Core and HTML, and includes a MySQL back end. It is designed ot be light, fast and robust, boasts extensive use and testing, and can be used directly 'out of the box' with numerous configuration options built in.
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.
