Tools

Visualization

Voyant Links

Links finds collocates for words and displays links between them using a force directed graph. It shows term frequencies in proximity to keyword. It is a visualization and shows a web of terms.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Corpus Grid shows an overview of the corpus, including each document's title, number of word tokens (total words), number or word types (unique words), and lexical density (the ratio of tokens to types).

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Voyant ScatterPlot

ScatterPlot creates a scatter plot graph of terms, spaced by their variation from one another. Once you arrive to ScatterPlot, insert / upload your content and let the tool perform its analysis. You may hover over these dots and click on them for more information.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Voyant FeatureClusters (beta)

FeatureClusters is a visualization tool for viewing associations between words, based on commonalities in the feature sets of the words. This is illustrated using a force-directed graph, wherein each word is a node in the graph. Nodes are connected to one another if they share the same feature. Features are represented by the smaller circles (or petals) which surround each word. Moving your mouse over a word will show the feature details associated with that word. Clicking on a word will highlight its connections to other words.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Search

Old Bailey Data Warehousing Interface

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.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

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.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Search

GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering)

GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) is free, open source software offered by the University of Sheffield since 1995. It provides a framework for users to gather a corpus, apply an ontology to it, develop markup, automate the application of the markup to the corpus and add tools such as knowledge facet search, ontology browsing or graphing.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Concordle

Concordle is a free, web based word cloud and concordance tool built in Javascript. It describes itself as the "not so pretty cousin of Wordle" and first debuted in 2006. Users can paste text into the provided box and generate a word cloud, concordance or list of words ordered by frequecy. It also includes a field for stop words.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Analysis

SimpleTCT

SimpleTCT (Simple Text Comparison Tool) is a free Java-based text comparison tool offered by Open Digital Arts & Humanities Tools (OpenDAHT). It offers a simplified management environment that enables users to display .rtf files, in which they may define themes, highlight passages and add researcher notes. The modified document can then be exported for later use.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Voyant 2.0: Bubblelines

Bubblelines lets you compare the distribution of words across documents. Each document is a horizontal line with bubbles where the word appears. Documentation here.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.