Toolbox

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Personal Tools

Ebenezer's Software Suite for TEI
(http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/ebenezer.htm)

EndNote
(http://www.endnote.com/)

EndNote is a commercial personal bibliographic reference management tool which allows one to perform four key bibliographical tasks: the searching of remote bibliographical databases on the Internet; the organization of references in a database; the citing of references whilst writing; and the creation of bibliographies. References located in remote bibliographical databases can be acquired and downloaded directly into the user's own EndNote database, each of which can store up to 32,000 references. EndNote also installs itself within the tool bar of MS Word and Corel WordPerfect, allowing the user to insert bibliographic references from one's database whilst one is writing. When the writing is finished, EndNote will reformat the inserted in-text citations according to MLA, MLA Note, Chicago, APA, or one of many other styles, and build the appropriate concluding bibliography. Bibliographies can be produced in a wide variety of styles and file formats, including HTML for placement on the Web. EndNote offers full searching and sorting capabilities and the ability to locate and delete duplicate references. EndNote is available for both Windows and Mac systems.
ProCite
(http://www.procite.com/)

ProCite is a commerical personal bibliographic reference management software package, which stores bibliographic information, notes, keywords, and full abstracts. A great variety of output styles are available, including ACS, ANSI, Chicago A & B, and MLA. ProCite will work in conjunction with many word-processors, including MS Word and Corel WordPerfect. ProCite provides an option on the tools menu of the word-processor to allow users to insert in-text citations and automatically generate the appropriate bibliography from within the word-processor.ProCite allows users to search and download references from Z39.50-compliant libraries and databases on the Internet. ProCite offers powerful searching and sorting capabilities that allow users to group records into subject bibliographies, and to save search expressions for later use.
Scribe 2.5
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scribe/)

Scribe 2.5 is a free cross-platform note-taking program that allows the user to manage research notes, quotes, thoughts, contacts, published and archival sources, digital images, outlines, timelines, and glossary entries. One can create, organize, index, search, link, and cross-reference note and source cards, as well as assemble, print, and export bibliographies, copy formatted references to clipboard, and import sources from online catalogs. Entire articles can be stored, including extended comments, and the material is searchable
TextArc
(http://textarc.org/)

TextArc is a tool designed to help people discover patterns and concepts in any text. It compliments approaches such as Statistical Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics by providing an overview, letting intuition help extract meaning from an unread text. TextArc exposes the nature and style of a document's content not by algorithmic winnowing but by arranging and showing every word. TextArc represents the entire text as two concentric spirals on the screen: each line is drawn in a small font around the outside, starting at the top; then each word is drawn in a more readable size. Some words appear inside the spirals: words that appear more than once are drawn at their average position.

Teaching Tools

Scout Portal Toolkit
(http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT/)

The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) allows groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share via the World Wide Web to put that collection online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise. Features include searching, annotation by users, resource referrals, and the "Intelligent Metadata Tool" for the cataloging of resources.

Research Tools

Concordance
(http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/)

Concordance is a commercial software program for Windows which will generate concordances, word lists and indices from single and multiple texts. Results can be printed, saved, exported as text, HTML and as Web Concordance files for dissemination online. The Web Concordance provide a user-friendly interface for exploring texts processed with Concordance. It allows one to view the original text, a wordlist with frequencies for each entry and hyperlinks to their occurrences in the text. The software is available on a commercial basis though an evaluation version of the software is available for download from the Web site.
INote: An Image Annotation Program
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/inote/

Inote is a Java application that allows one to annotate images with text, audio, or other images, using one or more overlays, that was developed by The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at UVa. It is not an image editor: annotations do not alter the original image. Inote can also automatically identify lines or columns of text for annotation, and IATH is working on SGML utilities that will allow a user to connect SGML transcriptions and annotated images.
The Manuscript Transcription Database
(http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mss/)

The Manuscript Transcription Database (MTD) is a tool for managing distributed transcription projects, is available for download from The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at UVa (a demo is also available at this URL). It uses a central database and a set of editor and transcriber GUIs to organize and track documents and assignments. Editors can assign pages or documents to particular transcribers and see the current status of individual assignments, groups of documents, and the entire project. Transcribers can see their current assignments, upload assignments, download finished work, and check their work against other transcriptions.The interface uses php, and so assumes that you have access to a web server (for example, Apache) with the php module compiled in. It also expects that Mysql, a free database package, is already installed and running on the server. The download includes the php interface, database tables, directory structure, and detailed instructions on configuration and use.