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Open Texts & Open Tools

TAPoR and Web ToolsGeoffrey Rockwell

grockwel@mcmaster.ca

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Googlizer - List Words

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http://cheiron.mcmaster.ca/~lianyan/

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The Problem

• Transcription: Representation and Analysis– How to represent evidence in the humanities– What to do with it, how to analyze it

• Problem of text analysis tools– Theoretical problems

We are not really sure what we should do or could do

– Technical problemsThe tools are too complex to tryWe need to fiddle

– Pragmatic approach

• Place of text analysis in the humanities and digital culture

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Hermeneutical Model

Question Evidence

Encounterbearing revealing

Practice

ChimeraAnswerhinting distorting

Narrative

Release

Theory Problem

Importance of iteration to the point of dialogue

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Hermeneutics of Text Analysis

Query Evidence

Encounterbearing revealing

Automated Technique

ChimeraAnswerhinting distorting

Narrative(slow and limited)

Release

formalization digitization

Concordance (queridence)

Moving to Interactive Model: Affordances & Prospects

Analysis

Synthesis

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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– Commercial and Open XML Tools for Servers

• XML Tools that need adaptation and support

– Texts are bundled with tools or not at all

Technical Evolution

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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

• Building a Portal– Workbench model for experimentation– Not a digital library

Tapor or Taper: “Originally, A wax candle, in early times used chiefly for devotional or penitential purposes.” (OED)

Text Analysis Portal for Research

Not torpor or tapir

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Portal Model

Representative Texts

Found and Created Texts

Commercial and Open

Source Tools

Created Tools

Portal Entry

Documentation and Training

Workspace

Publishing and Project Tools

myTAPoR

Web Services

Tool Broker

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HyperListes - Texts

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Open Access to XML

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HyperListes - Special Page

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http://strange.mcmaster.ca/tapor.html

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List Elements Results

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Philologic - HyperPo

http://philologic.uchicago.edu/samples.php?database=biblionet

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HyperPo

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Conclusion: Open Texts

• Exposing texts to tools elsewhereProvide a convenient handle for web tools

• Creating your own analytical interface to open textsBuild your own interface

• Providing links that automatically pipe content to a web toolGuide users like ARFTL and HyperPo

• Why bother?Can you anticipate what techniques will be useful on your

texts?Digital Culture - Just-In-Time-Texts and the application of text

analysis techniques

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The End

www.tapor.caInformation about the TAPoR project

strange.mcmaster.ca/~taporwareOlder version that you can download

cheiron.mcmaster.ca/~lianyanCurrent experimental version