Digital Humanities Tools

Notes about tools for digital humanities projects like Open Shakespeare/Milton. See also SoftwareTools page.

Implemented in Shakespeare/Milton

  • Annotation
  • Concordance

Projected developments

  • Iain's work on tools for text analysis?

Wishlist

  • Ability to overlay the page numbers of multiple different editions in the same file. Perhaps not really a tool, but nevertheless a useful feature!
  • Tag clouds for different parts of the text? Could be interesting for kids, e.g. to see broad themes in different parts of a Shakespeare play, or visual representations of the speech of different characters.

  • Ability to represent & work with bibliographic metadata about a text (which can be complex: an OKN text may have a Project Gutenberg text as its source, which in turn has a print edition as its source. How explicit should we try to be about the relation between these?).

  • Ability to specify & work with corpora of texts from repositories like Internet Archive (e.g. works by an author, works with a particular date of publication)

  • Statistical comparison of subcorpora, statistical tracking of word frequencies over time
  • ...