Tools

VARD

VARD 2 is an interactive piece of software produced in Java designed to assist users of historical corpora in dealing with spelling variation, particularly in Early Modern English texts. The tool is intended to be a pre-processor to other corpus linguistic methods such as keyword analysis, collocations and annotation (e.g. POS and semantic tagging), the aim being to improve the accuracy of these tools The VARD 2 software uses techniques derived from modern spell checkers to find candidate modern form replacements for spelling variants found within historical texts. The user can choose to process texts manually, selecting a candidate replacement offered by the system; automatically, allowing the system to use the best candidate replacement found; or semi-automatically, training the tool on a sample of the corpora. The tool is designed specifically for Early Modern English spelling variation, but it can be used to deal with possibly any form of spelling variation, in any language, by plugging in your own dictionary and spelling rules. Various related publications are available detailing the tool and its uses. And a full userguide is available.

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SepiaTown

SepiaTown is a cultural history project that aims to provide a window to the past by merging photography, geography, and technology, by acting as a forum for institutions and individuals to share and map historical images. Once they have signed up, users may upload historic images to the site individually or in batches. Each image is given a title, description and keywords, as well as a spatial location represented by a marker on a map. Visitors to the site can search or browse by using keywords and place-names, or by going directly to the map and clicking on a thumbnail to view images directly.

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Creation

Balsamiq Mockups

Balsamiq Mockups is a simple, flexible, and collaborative software for building wireframes for websites, apps, and other digital media. Users may purchase a desktop license or pay a monthly subscription fee for the web app. Free desktop software is available for classroom use.

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Substance

Substance is a fully web-based document authoring and publishing platform.

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Capture

SiteCrawler

SiteCrawler is a website downloading application that allows users to capture entire sites or selected portions of sites like image galleries.

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Visualization

GPS Visualizer

GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data.

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Annotating

Map Warper

This is an open source platform for georectifying scanned images of maps, so that they can be displayed in web maps or used in GIS applications. It could be particularly useful for creating map overlays for Google Earth or similar applications, without using specialized desktop software. Map images must first be uploaded and made publicly available, and then by aligning with Open Street Map reference data, the maps are warped into georeferenced images. Georectified images are downloadable as GeoTIFF, PNG, or KML files, along with map tiles or WMS capabilities. The same platform was used for NYPL Map Warper and WorldMap Warp.

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Dataverse

The Dataverse Network is an application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work. Researchers and data authors get credit, publishers and distributors get credit, affiliated institutions get credit.

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Publishing

Blacklight

Blacklight is an open source Ruby on Rails gem that provides a discovery interface for any Solr index. Blacklight provides a default user interface which is customizable via the standard Rails (templating) mechanisms. Blacklight accommodates heterogeneous data, allowing different information displays for different types of objects and features faceted browsing, relevance based searching, bookmarkable items, permanent URLs for every item, and user tagging of items.

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Web development

Indexhibit

A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound. What is it? Indexhibit is a pioneering CMS web application founded in 2006 which is used to create websites in the established index + exhibit format. The Indexhibit format has become archetypal for the creative community, combining good functionality and usability for the website maker and visitors. Who is it for? Everybody who would like to build and manage their own website embracing the archetypal index + exhibit format. Why use it? To become part of a community of users who place emphasis on content over complicated website design.

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