Selection, 15-04-2019

Tools for doing individual digital humanities research

• Recon – multipurpose tool for semi-automatic matching of records
  • Tutorial
  • Presentation: Demonstrations of person identity resolution and linking tools (gd)
  • User interface
  • Example configurations
  • GitHub repository
• Palladio – humanities data visualization tool
  • Homepage
  • Tutorials:
    • http://miriamposner.com/blog/getting-started-with-palladio/
    • https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/creating-network-diagrams-from-historical-sources
    • http://j.mp/dhh15ho
  • Main GitHub repository
• FiCa – tool for filtering and categorization (under development)
  • Presentation: Developing an interface for historical sociolinguistics (gd)
  • User interface
  • GitHub repository
• Data Pen – humanities workbench for qualitative research based on linked open data
  • Homepage
  • GitHub repository

LAS – Language analysis service, with a particular focus on Finnish

• Web service version (with documentation)
  • Docker containers
• Command line version (with documentation)
• GitHub repositories:
  • http://github.com/jiemakel/las/
  • http://github.com/jiemakel/omorfi/
  • http://github.com/jiemakel/seco-lexicalanalysis-play/
  • http://github.com/jiemakel/seco-lexicalanalysis/

Octavo – interface for digital humanities research based on text collections with associated metadata

• Documentation:
  • OpenAPI description
• Presentations:
  • Exploring ECCO: Key moments in 18th-century philosophical literature (gd)
  • Case-studies of Consciousness & Public: Text and data mining eighteenth century based on ESTC & ECCO (gd)
  • Text and data mining eighteenth century based on ESTC & ECCO (gd)
  • Research on news corpora in DHH and beyond (gd)
• User interface: http://jiemakel.github.io/octavo-ui/
• GitHub repositories:
  • http://github.com/jiemakel/octavo/
  • http://github.com/jiemakel/octavo-ui/

Khepri – a Modular View-Based Tool for Exploring Historical Sociolinguistic Data

• Publication
• Live interface
• GitHub repository

CORE – contextual reader

• Project page (with a general overview and links to examples)
• Demonstrative video
• Presentation: CORE – A Contextual Reader based on Linked Data (gd)
• GitHub repository

ARPA – Entity linking service

• Live web service
• Demo user interface (older version)
• GitHub repository
• GitHub repository for the configuration user interface

Linked data tools

• Aether, a tool for exploring statistics of Linked Data datasets
• Snapper, an editor for the Turtle serialization of RDF
• VISU, a visual SPARQL query tool

WW1LOD – Linked open reference dataset on the First World War

• Homepage including documentation and further links

Semantic Finlex – Linked open data version of Finnish legislation and case law

• Homepage including documentation and further links

DHIntro – Jupyter notebooks for learning the fundamentals of programming (for humanists)

• GitHub repository with tutorial and further links

Miscellaneous dataset conversions into linked data

• Finnish Geographic Names –  original
  • Converter code
• Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts – original
  • Data model description of the conversion
  • Converter code
• The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe – original
  • Converter code
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon – original
  • Converter code
• Virtual International Authority File – original
  • Converter code
• Old Bailey Corpus – original
  • Converter code
• Early Modern Letters Online (unfortunately not openly available) – original
  • Converter code