{"id":6977,"date":"2012-07-19T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T06:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2012-07-19T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T06:33:42","slug":"more-new-tools-and-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/07\/more-new-tools-and-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"More new tools and methods"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been attending the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Digital Humanities (DH) workshops and conference in Hamburg<\/a> (which has 510 registrants) and have learned about a number of new tools and methods for working with text, images, and media, often with large collections of primary sources that can only be analysed computationally. On the way here I called in at the MPI in Nijmegen and heard a presentation (pdf is here<\/a>) by Peter Withers about the new tool they have produced called KinOath (http:\/\/www.lat-mpi.eu\/tools\/tools\/kinoath<\/a>), software for mapping kinship relations.
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At DH, Jost Gippert showed us his use of multispectral imaging of manuscripts<\/a> to allow writing that is invisible to the eye to be seen using a spectrum of color reception that captures only the script of interest. He gave an example of the Behaim globe from 1491 <\/a> – the oldest known globe – where the text was unreadable but became legible if using multispectral analysis.<\/p>\n

I attended a course given by Mia Ridge<\/a> titled ‘Learning to play like a programmer: web mash-ups and scripting for beginners<\/a>‘. This class focussed on using javascripts and other tools for connecting web-based information. She pointed us to some useful sites for data cleanup, including google refine (code.google.com\/p\/google-refine<\/a>) and MrDataconverter (shancarter.com\/data_converter\/<\/a>). And she showed us a nice page of data visualisation tools (http:\/\/selection.datavisualization.ch\/<\/a>). <\/p>\n

St\u00e9fan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell gave a class on their Voyant tools (http:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/<\/a>) for text exploration \u2014 very easy to use and allowing concordances, KWIC and other ways of exploring text. They kindly made all their course materials available online here: http:\/\/hermeneuti.ca\/workshops\/dh12<\/a>. There are also videos showing how to use the tools here: http:\/\/docs.voyant-tools.org\/videos\/<\/a>. Voyant is based on the earlier and widely-used text analysis tool Tapor (http:\/\/tapor.ca<\/a>). They pointed out a very good site listing all kinds of text-analysis tools: https:\/\/digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can find out about many other presentations in the conference program<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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