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 https://books.google.com/ngrams
INKE – Glass Cast
The Glass Cast is a 3D interface in development intended for the visualization of knowledge networks that takes into consideration parameters such as authorship, time, subject discipline and connections between documents in a corpus. The working metaphor is the sort of cast sculpture whereby the object of representation appears as a negative space within a … Read more
HyperStudio – Chronos Timeline
HyperStudio’s Chronos Timeline is designed specifically for needs in the humanities and social sciences to represent time-based data. Chronos allows scholars and students to dynamically present historical data in a flexible online environment. Switching easily between vertical and horizontal orientations, researchers can quickly scan large number of events, highlight and filter events based on subject … Read more
Aaron Swartz – Image Atlas
Image Atlas investigates cultural differences and similarities by indexing top image results for given search terms across local engines throughout the world. http://www.imageatlas.org/
Jonathan Harris – Universe
Universe portrays all information as being interconnected. Any word, quote, person, photo, topic or story can become the “center of the universe”, causing all other items to rearrange themselves in relation to the selected item. This treatment of information is reminiscent of the way we, as humans, experience reality — each of us from our own … Read more
Visual Thesaurus
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/
INKE – NewRadial
NewRadial is a web-based digital environment for humanities research and collaboration that encourages users to occupy, search, sort, and annotate database content in a visual field. It has been designed to function as a workspace in which primary objects from existing databases can be browsed, gathered, correlated, and commented on by multiple users in a … Read more
hyperstudio – Faceted Browser
The Repertoire faceted browser module enables you to quickly integrate non-linear search into a project. Faceted search is particularly useful when you would like to present users with multiple entry points into a dataset or when there is no expectation that they know what they are looking for beforehand. For example, someone browsing Amazon.com for … Read more
INKE – TextTiles Browser
The TextTiles browser is a prototype that facilitates research by providing users with display manipulation capacities. Primarily, TextTiles attends to the concept of rich prospect browsing—a more user-controlled type of browsing that promotes a persistent, manipulable, organizable display of items in a collection. TextTiles is primarily concerned with collections that consist of textual information. Each document corresponds with a small tile … Read more
INKE – Paper Drill
Paper Drill aims to automate the identification and assemblage of citation chains throughout collections of secondary scholarship. (Citation chaining is the scholarly activity of finding relevant resources via the reference list of an article.) As with other similar tools, to use Paper Drill one must submit a seed article. Paper Drill differs from other tools in the field, however, by … Read more