GitHub is a web-based repository service which offers the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of GIT with a graphical user interface, desktop, and mobile integration. It also provides collaboration tools such as access control, wikis, task management, code review, bug tracking, and feature requests. It offers free accounts, often used to host opensource software projects, and private (paid) repositories. Projects on GitHub can be accessed and manipulated using the git command-line interface and all of the standard git commands work with it. GitHub also allows registered and non-registered users to browse public repositories on the site. Multiple desktop clients have also been created by GitHub and other third parties which integrate with the platform. GitHub is mainly used for code but can also be used for non-code files, it supports the following formats and features: 3D render files Photoshop's native PSD format can be previewed and compared to previous versions of the same file. Nested task-lists Documentation and wikis Small websites can be hosted from public repositories on GitHub. The URL format is http://projectname.github.io. Issue tracking (including feature requests) Visualization of geospatial data Gantt charts GitHub is a heavily used in the opensource development community but does not require hosted projects to meet the definition of Open Source.
BookLamp, part of the Book Genome Project, is a tool and a resource for finding books. It offers an alternative to social recommendation engines reliant on author popularity by treating its books as equal regardless of number of copies sold. BookLamp's goal is to match users to the books relevant to their interests as accurately as possible. Rather than genres, it uses 'StoryDNA', which identifies the thematic ingredients important to a book's narrative, in addition to how prominent that ingredient is within the text. BookLamp has been retired as of April 2014 and the website is no longer available. The site has been captured by the Internet Archive, and may still be viewed there via the Wayback Machine.
LodLive is a web-based tool developed to demonstrate Linked Data standards applied to browsing RDF resources with a simple interface. Users can search preset datasets, including DBpedia and Freebase, or search a resource available at a web address of the user's choice. LodLive is also available for download.
Word and Phrase is a free, web-based text analysis tool created by Dr. Mark Davies of Brigham Young University. Users can paste texts directly into the box provided. The tool provides a range of detailed information on a text's words and phrases, on one screen with a single search.
TextGrid is a virtual research environment for text-based humanities scholarship. It offers a variety of tools and services for collaboratively creating, analyzing, editing and publishing texts. The TextGrid environment is split into two components, the Laboratory housing the tools and services, and the Repository for preserving reserach data and making it available to other scholars.
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.
R is an open source programing language designed for statistical analysis and parallel computing. R began its life as a research project at the University of Aukland, but has since expanded to become a collaborativly run open source project run by the GNU. R has libraries for data import, regular expression data splitting, and visualization of data. R can be run as either a script or as a working environment.
Document KWICs shows a table of keywords in their context. In other words, it provides a list of certain keywords and their occurrence within a corpus or document.
This tool lists words in an HTML document, either uploaded by the user or from a web address. List Words works with relatively small texts of under a megabyte in size. It is part of the TAPoRware collection of tools; there are XML and plain text versions available as well. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
Wordle is an online toy for generating word clouds using the text you provide. Text can be submitted by providing an URL or by pasting raw text into an input. The most frequent words from the text are then used as the source for the resulting visualization, where frequency is used to determine the size of each word. You may customize the output by choosing from a variety of display options (layout, font, colours) or use the randomize feature to get a random visualization. Additionally, there is built-in stop word support for many common languages, and the option to change the word case.
