Tools for Textual Research
Tools for textual research include tools for text mining (Voyant and Python), tools for transcribing (Transkribus for HTR, Adobe Pro for OCR), tools for scanning (Microsoft 365), annotating, coding or tagging (Tropy and Zotero), and tools for collaborating on your analysis and sharing your research (Zotero).
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This course is meant to help you make the most of your historical sources by using Tropy, a digital tool that simplifies the process of organizing and annotating them so you can easily find again exactly the ones you need when it comes to writing your thesis or research article.Tropy is a free, open source program that is available for Linux, Max and Windows.
In this course, you will learn to use Zotero to boost your analysis, gathering all your research material, tags, annotations, and notes in one place for easy retrieval. In Zotero you can highlight, annotate, and tag your texts, facilitating your analysis and retrieval. Zotero also allows you to easily collaborate on your analysis and share your bibliographies and research, including your notes and annotations.
In this course, you will learn to use Zotero to boost your analysis, gathering all your research material, tags, annotations, and notes in one place for easy retrieval. In Zotero you can highlight, annotate, and tag your texts, facilitating your analysis and retrieval. Zotero also allows you to easily collaborate on your analysis and share your bibliographies and research, including your notes and annotations.
Preparing a trip to the archives can be challenging; managing the many photos you take in the archives can also be a daunting task.
This course is meant to help you make the most of your archival trips by helping you understand the way archives work and why, and by presenting several digital tools that simplify the process of taking useful pictures of your sources, then organise and annotate them so you can easily find again exactly the ones you need when it comes to writing your thesis or research article.
Transkribus is a comprehensive platform for the digitisation, AI-powered text recognition, transcription, and searching of historical documents. In this workshop you will get a demonstration of Transkribus and learn how you can use this tool in your research.
Get a fundamental understanding of how to use Python programming and an introduction to simpler tools such as Voyant and DH-Lab apps to text mine corpora.