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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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Pundit

Pundit is a cloud service that allows users to 'take notes' on web documents, like a web page or a PDF file. It consists of a set of components, amongst them the Annotator, a free extension for the Google Chrome browser used by users to create the annotations. Annotations can be highlights of text parts or comments, applied either on a selection of the text or on the whole document. It is also possible to create annotations to tag a selected text or an entire web page. Pundit supports semantic annotations, real RDF triples (subject - predicate -> object) to specify formal, structured and reusable statements associated to the annotated content.

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Visualization

Gephi

Gephi is a free, open source interactive visualization and data exploration tool. Users can manipulate the display to uncover new facets of the data, enabling intutive exploration.

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Visualization

Juxta

Juxta is a free, open source tool for comparing and collating texts, originally intended for comparing multiple versions of the same text. It offers several views and visualization options, including histograms and side by side comparison. Juxta is available as both a desktop application and as a web service that can be integrated into the user's own website.

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Orange

Orange is a free, open source data visualization and analysis tool. It allows users to conduct data mining either through its visual programming language, or via Python scripts, and includes components for machine learning. Orange includes both add-ons for biometrics and text mining, and data analytic features.

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ORBIS: Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

ORBIS: Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World is a tool and academic resource for reconstructing the time and financial costs of travel in the ancient world. Its model is based on a simplified network of Roman cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes, and takes into account such factors as time of year and method of travel. Users can enter parameters to generate models and interactive maps.

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Collaboration

Sophie

Sophie is a free, creative commons authoring tool from the Institute for the Future of the Book and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts that enables collaboration, reading and publication. Its highlights include an authoring environment that allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents, a reader than opens books in a browser without downloading additional software, comment frames for adding discussions within books, digital libraries compatible with the Sophe iPad app, timeline creation and collaborative book creation. As of version 2.1, Sophie includes HTML5 export for data integrating multimedia content and for use on a wide variety of devices.

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Enrichment

T-PEN

T-PEN is a free toolset from the Center for Digital Theology at Saint Louis University for working with images of manuscripts and attaching transcription data. It has features for collaborative transcription in XML, multiple data viewing, data manipulation and data export. T-PEN includes support for multiple languages with French, Middle English and Old English dictionaries. User accounts are available by request.

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Analysis

Textalyser

Textalyser is a free web-based text analysis tool offered by the Bernhard Huber Internet Engineering Company. Users can paste text into the provided entry field, upload a file or provide a URL for analysis. Textalyser provides detailed statistics on the text to determine subject, analyse word groupings, determine keyword density and deterimine the most prominent phrase. The Textalyser website is no longer available as of late 2014. It has been captured by the Internet Archive, and can still be viewed there.

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TextSTAT

TextSTAT is a free text analysis tool offered by Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin. It is a simple program designed to accept plain text, HTML, Word and OpenOffice files to produce word frequency lists and concordances, and versions are available in English, German, Dutch, Portugese, Spanish, French, Italian, Galician, Finnish, Polish and Czech. TextSTAT also includes a web spider and news reader for adding web pages and news to a corpus.

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