GLACC - CCD Requirement - Digital Literacy and Communication

WORK IN PROGRESS - Appendix to the GLACC Pedagogical Document

Tapor

TAPoR
Discover research tools for studying texts

Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools
"Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It's designed to make it easy for you to work with your own text or collection of texts in a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, RTF, and MS Word."

Useful for: "Tracking word frequency, word collocation, and visualizing trends in texts both large and small ... Voyant can be used to prompt close reading, track trends across one or multiple novels, and visualize trends in student writing." See Also (Review of Voyant Tools)
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Google Books - ngram Viewer

Google ngram Viewer
When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years.
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"When applied to linguistic analysis, natural language processing, and text generation, an n-gram is, typically, a phrase composed of “n” that is “one or more” “grams” that are “tokens” (in the parlance of algorithmic parsing) or “words” (for our purposes)."

See: Cayley, John. "N- gram." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, Marie-Laure Ryan, et al., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st edition, 2014. Credo Reference.

See Also (Cultoromics)

Hathi Trust Research Center Analytics

HTRC Analytics
"Supports large-scale computational analysis of the works in the HathiTrust Digital Library to facilitate non-profit and educational research."

BookWorm

BookWorm
"Bookworm makes it easy to interactively explore massive collections of texts as data.
If you have a huge collection of texts, it provides a way to interpret them, make them explorable, and unlock them to a wide variety of uses even if you can't share them freely for copyright or other reasons."

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Tech Requirements: Bookworm installation requires setting up some servers, and then installing Bookworm itself. WOULD REQUIRE ITS involvement
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Optical Character Recognition

Tesseract

Text Encoding / Text Analysis

BBEdit
MALLET (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit)
Voyant
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)

Stylometry

Stylo for R

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