Tools

Enrichment

Paperphone

Paperphone is a scholarly project that had as aim to modify the sound/voice during a presentation, i.e. in real time. It was designed to challenge the privileging of text over act in humanities scholarship. Paperphone is a performative platform for scholars to unravel the expressive potential of voice and audio in sharing academic works.

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Visualization

Praat

Praat is a free software package for phonetic analysis. Some of the functionalities include spectral analysis (spectrograms) pitch analysis, formant analysis, intensity analysis, jitter, shimmer, voice breaks cochleagram, excitation pattern, speech manipulation, etc

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Visualization

Sonic Visualiser

Sonic Visualiser is a free, open-source application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, designed to study a music recording closely. It's designed for musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers, and anyone else looking for a friendly way to look at what lies inside the audio file. Its latest release was September 2021. Its main functions are visualisation, analysis, and annotation of music audio recordings.

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Publishing

Odyssey

Odyssey.js is an open-source tool that allows you to combine maps, narratives, and other multimedia into a beautiful story. You enhance the narrative and multimedia of your stories using Actions (e.g. map movements, video and sound control, or the display or new content) that will let you tell your story in an exciting new way. Experts can also add custom Templates and Actions by following the contribution guide. The tool is still under development and will include YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, and Twitter based Actions. The library is open source and freely available to use in your projects.

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Publishing

Twine

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. The users don't need to write code but they can use variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript to enhance their stories if needed. The story is published in HTML and hence can be shared anywhere online.

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Annotating

the sourcecaster

The sourcecaster helps users work in the windows command line. It contains short lines of code that can be used to manipulate files for analysis. File types include image, video, text, audio, etc. Below each line of code are explanations that tell what each part of the code does and so the user can modify the code to suite his/her objectives. The sourcecaster relies on contributions from the community. There are currently very few entries.

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Annotating

Explainshell

The Explainshell website contains 29761 parsed manpages (a form of software documentation) from sections 1 and 8 found in Ubuntu's manpage repository. It used python and some NLTK to parse code to retrieve information and documentation for each part of the code. The user pastes the command line code into the search box and the code is annotated using D.js visualization.

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Analysis

All Our Ideas

All Our Ideas is a research project that seeks to develop a new form of social data collection by combining the best features of quantitative and qualitative methods. Using the power of the web, we are creating a data collection tool that has the scale, speed, and quantification of a survey while still allowing for new information to "bubble up" from respondents as happens in interviews, participant observation, and focus groups.

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Search

CollectiveAcces

CollectiveAccess is free, open-source software for cataloguing and publishing museum and archival collections. The collection can then be published while requiring (or not) login. It has got built in search function and can display media files. The users can annotate their media files. It has many other functions. Documentation can be found here https://manual.collectiveaccess.org/

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Discovering

oldweb.today

oldweb.today (OWT) is a system that connects emulated web browsers to web archives, allowing users to browse the old web, today, as it was! On the home page, you can choose what browser you want to run. It has browsers as early as the Mosaic browser.

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