Tools

Analysis

The Field Linguist’s Toolbox

Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind of data. Toolbox is free to download and use. Toolbox is especially powerful for handling large corpora and dictionaries. It can handle a corpus of over a million words, and a dictionary of hundreds of thousands of words At heart, Toolbox is a text-oriented database management system (DBMS) with added functionality designed to meet the needs of a field linguist. The underlying DBMS offers full user flexibility in the design of any type of database. But for ease of use, the Toolbox package includes prepared database definitions for a typical dictionary and text corpus. Toolbox also has powerful linguistic functionality. It includes a morphological parser that can handle almost all types of morphophonemic processes. It has a word formula component that allows the linguist to describe all the possible affix patterns that occur in words. It has a user-definable interlinear text generation system which uses the morphological parser and lexicon to generate annotated text

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

PDFCreator

PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Gathering

GNU Wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Gathering

DownThemAll

DownThemAll is a Firefox plugin that allows users to download all the links or images contained in a webpage.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Publishing

Koha

LibLime's Koha is a web-based, open source integrated library system (ILS) that has also been used for virtual library systems (e.g. recreating historic libraries). LibLime Koha offers libraries circulation policies, patron management modules, parent-child relationship for patron records, club and service management features, in-depth "holds" support, single click batch import "undo" option, EzProxy compatibility, self-checkout interface and more.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Storage

Zamzar

Zamzar is an online file conversion service. Zamzar converts between a wide variety of formats (including support for word processing documents, audio, images, video, and ebooks) and emails the result to the user. There is a monthly subscription fee that depends on the volume of data converted. It also has storage services.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Creation

Transformer: a Unicode Transform/Replace Tool

Transformer loads Unicode text files and performs sequences of transformation operations on them — search-and-replace, or JavaScript operations. It provides you with an interface to create and test these sequences of transformations before running them in batch mode on a set of files. Transformer was created to assist in the rescue of textual data from obsolete file formats such as DOS word-processor files. Sometimes, it proves impossible to rescue old data through normal means such as running the original application and exporting to a format which can be imported by a more modern program. Perhaps the program which created the data no longer exists or cannot be run on available hardware, or perhaps it cannot save to any format but its own. In these circumstances, it is often necessary to rescue the data by a process of manual conversion, identifying blocks of text or other data in the original file which can be replaced with Unicode characters, and building sequences of replacement operations which gradually convert the data. This often requires an exhaustive trial-and-error approach in which transformation operations are added incrementally and tested in various sequences before a reliable sequence is developed; then the sequence can be run on a group of files. Transformer should provide as efficient a working environment as possible, so that the user can focus on the task itself rather than the machinery.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Zoomerang

Zoomerang is online survey software. Users create and share their survey forms. It had the ability to export forms from Survey Monkey. It can be used for free but the paid plans include analysis tools. Zommerang is now part of Survey Monkey.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Wufoo

Wufoo is an online form builder with built-in analytics. Free users are allowed to create up to three forms with up to 10 fields. The forms created can be used for a variety of purposes like registration, research data collection, payment collection, etc. The data gathered can be analyzed inside Wufoo or exported to popular spreadsheet formats

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Capture

Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (DeL eTools)

"The Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (VLMA) is an educational tool for collecting and reusing in a structured fashion the online contents of museums and archives with visual components. With VLMA, you can browse and search collections, construct personal collections, export these collections to xml or Impress presentation format, annotate them, and share your collections with other VLMA users."

Rated 0.0 out of 5.