Renaissance Knowledge Network - General Resources

Digital Methods Initiative (DMI)

ReKN Admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:22:27 +0000

Founded in 2007 but in development since the later 1990s, DMI is a collaborative project out of the University of Amsterdam. DMI is a "contribution to doing research into the 'natively digital'". The goals of the project are twofold: firstly, the projects aims to interrogate virtual methods in order to evaluate the differences this new media makes and, secondly, the project aims to create a platform here display the tools and sources that can be used in digital research. DMI provides practical (like how-to's) and critical (outlooks and critiques) resources allied with specific tools to aid scholars in using and evaluating these web-based programs.

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General Resources

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https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase

R

ReKN Admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:21:41 +0000

"R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics". R facilitates a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques for data manipulation, calculation, and graphical display. R is characterized as an environment as opposed to being a tool because it is a "fully planned and coherent system, rather than an incremental accretion of very specific and inflexible tools". "One of R's strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full control". R is an open source program and is freely available.

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General Resources

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http://www.r-project.org/

TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research)

ReKN Admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:20:14 +0000

The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) is "both a resource for discovery and a community". "The TAPoR team has created a place for Humanities scholars, students and others interested in applying digital tools to their textual research to find the tools they need, contribute their experience and share new tools they have developed or used with others". TAPoR is a comprehensive database of textual analysis tools: programs that leverage computational methods to manipulate, visualize, edit, categorize, and search texts. The TAPoR community has been recently expanded to facilitate a more interactive environment. Users can now evaluate, review, and sort tools already available in the TAPoR database as well as create new tools to be included on the website.

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General Resources

URL:

http://tapor.ca

Digital Research Tools (DiRT)

ReKN Admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:19:03 +0000

The DiRT Directory "aggregates information about digital research tools for scholarly use". DiRT is an evolving project originally founded by Lisa Spiro. The aim of DiRT is to make it easy for digital humanists and other scholars conducting digital research to source out the necessary tools for their project. DiRT facilitates access to a wide variety of digital scholar tools ranging from blogging platforms to linguistic research tools to annotation resources to data visualization. Managed by an editorial board of approximately 20 members, DiRT's directory is constantly expanding and evolving as the team works to ensure "the coverage and accuracy of the directory's tool listings".

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General Resources

URL:

http://dirtdirectory.org