Tool: Paperwall: design without the paywall
Posters, posts, invitations and slides. Free, offline and yours: no account, no watermark, and your work stays on this device. See full post.
Category: Tools
Tool: Weaving ‘Tapestries’: Introducing A New Tool for Digital Storytelling and Archiving
Tapestries is a user interface developed by Bob Stein and Dan Visel (who works on the Wayback team) that allows people to make dynamic, multi-linear presentations with various digital objects. The curation tool lets users gather items from all over the web and put them together into a single space to tell a story. Rather […]
Tool: Z-Profile
Z-Profile is a new tool aimed at helping researchers create their own sites, manage their online identity, and share their publications. Z-Profile gets data from a specially-prepared Zotero collection, does of bit of processing, then generates a static website using Zola. The site includes biographical details and a list of your publications. Once your site […]
Tool: The Lexos Python Library
The Lexos Python library reproduces and extends most of the text analysis tools in the Lexos web app. Lexos is designed to implement many common text analysis procedures and create workflows in a way that saves the user having to re-invent the wheel or figure out how to combine multiple Python packages to achieve a […]
Tool: OCR on the Hub
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes. See full post.
Tool: epub-blocks
epub-blocks is a dependency-free Python library for reproducibly extracting ordered, structured text blocks from EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 files. A declarative recipe selects an edition’s XHTML, assigns block types, and generates stable identifiers without edition-specific Python code or a pre-existing output table. See full post.
Tool: CB-Essay
CB-Essay is a platform for publishing long-form, multi-modal essays and monographs. Built on CollectionBuilder, the framework features longform content (connected essays, books, etc.) in front, with CollectionBuilder in the back supporting media embeds and customizations. See full post.
Tool: WACZ to PDF
A WACZ is a good container for a web crawl. It plays back easily in open-source replay software like Browsertrix and ReplayWebPage. But it’s not always the most convenient format for a non-archivist who wants to read, annotate, print or file away a set of their articles. I worked with Claude to write a small […]
Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)
TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]
Tool: Manu – Manuscript Annotation & Visualisation
Medieval manuscript research has always required proximity to the object, to the institution, and to the colleagues who share your specialisation. Digital tools can replicate the proximity to the object. The harder problem is replicating the collaborative infrastructure that surrounds archival work: annotation conventions, access management, the handover of notes between researchers, and the long-term […]