Tools

Analysis

MIX 2.0

MIX 2.0 is a sophisticated statistical add-in for performing meta-analysis in Excel. There is a free ‘Lite’ version and a premium ‘Pro’ version. Both can be downloaded for free, but the Pro version requires an activation with a license code that can be purchased. It works only on windows on Excel 2007 and later. Basic knowledge of Excel is required.

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Layar

The Layar Reality Browser is a free iPhone or Android augmented reality app that lets users look through their mobile device's camera to see “real time digital information (layers) on top of reality.” Some examples of layers are Architecture 3D, Foursquare, Google local search, Trulia, Twitter, Wikipedia and Yellowpages. The app itself is an augmented reality browser and users must download specific layers in order to view and access content. Most layers are free downloads, others cost around $2.00. Individuals and businesses can use Layar to add links, videos, audio, etc to their flyers, logos or products. The product is scanned with a mobile phone camera through the Layar app. The company seems to be bankrupted and Layar might not be in further development.

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Publishing

Historypin

Historypin is a digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections. Users are able to use the location and date of their content to "pin" it to Google Maps. Where Google Street View is available, users can overlay historical photographs and compare it with the contemporary location. This content can be added and explored online and via a series of Smartphone applications

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Search

I-Analyzer

I-Analyzer is a service created by the Digital Humanities Lab of Utrecht University. It has corpora that can be search with many filtering options. It has the option of different visualisations of the search results. It currently has three corpora with most contents in Dutch and Hebrew. It is free to use upon registration.

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Natural Language Processing

Humanists Natural Language Processing Cookbook

It is a set of code in Python that do the common things that humanists do to text as they prepare it for analysis. In starts with loading the text and proceeds to cleaning and dividing the text and preparing it for analysis. It also has a scraping tool to get data directly from websites. The user that has to do some basic modifications of text can just do some modifications of the code provided.

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Analysis

KH Coder

KH Coder is a free software for quantitative content analysis or text mining. It is also utilized for computational linguistics. You can analyze Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish text with KH Coder.

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Visualization

Alteryx

Alteryx is an online commercial data analysis service. Among its capabilities are optical character recognition, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling with Text Mining. You can quickly build predictive models without coding through its intuitive graphical user interface. It has many visualisation options among which is the word cloud.

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Search

Sketch Engine

Sketch Engine is a tool to explore how language works. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis or text mining applications. Sketch Engine is used by linguists, lexicographers, translators, students and teachers. It is a first choice solution for publishers, universities, translation agencies and national language institutes throughout the world. Sketch Engine contains 500 ready-to-use corpora in 90+ languages, each having a size of up to 30 billion words to provide a truly representative sample of language. Some of its functions are: word sketch, sketch difference, thesaurus, concordance, parallel concordance, wordlist, n-grams, keywords & terms, bilingual term extractiontrends and OneClick Dictionary.

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Collaboration

Alfresco

This is cloud-native Enterprise content management (ECM) with which you can manage content from anywhere, connect information with users everywhere and deliver apps to any device. Alfresco enables businesses to increase worker productivity, govern valuable information and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

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Search

KonText

KonText is a basic web application for querying corpora available within the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ project. It allows evaluation of simple and complex queries, displaying their results as concordance lines, computing frequency distribution, calculating association measures for collocations and further work with language data.

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