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Text Analysis Portal for Research Expose your Texts Text Analysis on the Internet Geoffrey Rockwell McMaster University grockwel@mcmaster.ca http://www.tapor.ca Not torpor or tapir
Outline • Texts and Tools • What is TAPoR? • Aggregating Text Analysis Tools • Demonstration
Expose your Texts • Scholarly E-Texts available: • As static web pages (sites of pages like Lancelot) • Bundled with tools (http://www.canadiana.org/ECO) • Difficult to use with other tools • Research involves new questions and innovative methods
Text Analysis Portal for Research What is TAPoR? • Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Project • Providing an aggregation of text tools • On servers with associated labs • Multi-University project • Supporting researchers and projects across Canada • Open to the community Tapor or Taper: “Originally, A wax candle, in early times used chiefly for devotional or penitential purposes.” (OED)
Text-Analysis Tools • Text-analysis and Concordances: • 1247, Concordance to the Vulgate Bible, Paris • 1949, Father Busa Index Thomisticus • 1970s, Batch Concordancers like OCP • 1989, TACT - Interactive Concordancers • 1990s, WWW for Delivery of E-Texts • Current Situation • Accessible E-texts on the Web (often bundled) • Commercial and Open XML Tools for Servers • XML Tools that need adaptation and support
Portal Model Information about Tools Documentation and Training Portal Commercial and Open Source Tools Representative Texts Try It Workspace Found and Created Texts myTAPoR Created Tools Publishing and Project Tools Skins: Human-Computer Interface Design
What should a Portal do? • Provide an introduction to the field • Support casual use • Provide a single point of entry to common resources • Be customizable for advanced users • Support individual researchers and projects • Support the study of computing methods in textual studies • Support the study of HCI
TAPoRware Demonstration • Text tools on remote texts • Adapted interface • Hyperliste Interface
Conclusion • Expose scholarly e-texts • Use mature markup standards (TEI) • Document the exposure • Make them available in different configurations • Acquire open e-texts • Analyze This