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List of Tools

Tool	Type	URI	Description/comment

Google Visualization API	Visualization	http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery.html	Easy-to-use charting & visualization API.
CloudMade Web Maps Studio		http://cloudmade.com/products/web-maps-studio	Web Maps Studio is a suite of tools that gives web developers everything they need to create customized, interactive map based web apps.
Gephi	Visualization	http://gephi.org/	Graph visualization tool.
D3	Visualization	http://mbostock.github.com/d3/	Visualization toolkit.
Many Eyes	Visualization	http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/	Social visualization platform.
Prefuse	Visualization	http://prefuse.org/	Visualization toolkit.
GraphViz	Visualization	http://www.graphviz.org/	Graph visualization with output in various formats. Example: http://goo.gl/sPrN1
Wordle	Visualization	http://www.wordle.net/	Word clouds.
TimeFlow	Visualization	https://github.com/FlowingMedia/TimeFlow/wiki	TimeFlow Analytical Timeline is a visualization tool for temporal data.
Voyant/Voyeur Tools		http://voyeurtools.org/	Voyeur is a web-based text analysis environment.
Axiis	Visualization	http://www.axiis.org/	Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.
OpenGeoDa		http://geodacenter.asu.edu/	GeoDa is a free software program that serves as an introduction to spatial data analysis.
Sci2/Network Workbench		https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/	Temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels.
Snap		http://snap.stanford.edu/	Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP) is a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library.
Textrend		http://www.textrend.hu/	The goal of TEXTrend platform is the in-depth analysis of dynamic information on the web for science or business.
OldMapsOnline		http://help.oldmapsonline.org/	OldMapsOnline.org is a research project which aims to develop software to assist in the management, manipulation and visualisation of historical map collections on the web.
WikipediaMiner	NLP	http://wikipedia-miner.cms.waikato.ac.nz/	WikipediaMiner is a toolkit for tapping the rich semantics encoded within Wikipedia.
PDFMiner	Data gathering	http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html	PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
Geotemporal Viz	Visualization, resource list	http://www.geotemporalviz.org/	List of geotemporal visualization tools.
WolframAlpha		http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/04/27/must-have-genealogy-tools-from-wolframalpha/	Geneaology tools from WolframAlpha.
NodeXL	Visualization	http://nodexl.codeplex.com/	NodeXL – Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel is an Excel 2007 Template for viewing and analyzing network graphs.
Google Refine	Data processing	http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/ReconciliationServiceApi http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/WriteAnExtension http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/Recipes	Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
Data Science Toolkit	Data processing	http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/	Nicely packaged set of open tools for working with data.
KEA	NLP	http://www.nzdl.org/Kea/	KEA is an algorithm for extracting keyphrases from text documents. It can be either used for free indexing or for indexing with a controlled vocabulary.
Maui	NLP	http://code.google.com/p/maui-indexer/	Maui automatically identifies main topics in text documents. Depending on the task, topics are tags, keywords, keyphrases, vocabulary terms, descriptors, index terms or titles of Wikipedia articles.
Cloud-Crowd	Data processing	https://github.com/documentcloud/cloud-crowd	Easy-to-use cloud processing framework.
Grep the Web	Data gathering	http://blekko.com/webgrep?status=completed	Submit a series of strings or patterns and we will show you the urls on which they appear (in rank order).
pandas	Data processing	http://pandas.sourceforge.net/	pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data analysis / manipulation tool available in any language.
FOX	NLP	http://aksw.org/Projects/FOX	FOX is a framework that integrates the Linked Data Cloud and makes uses of the diversity of NLP algorithms to extract RDF triples of high accuracy out of NL.
DataONE	Resources list	http://www.dataone.org/cattools	List of scientific data tools from the DataONE consortium.
Workflow software survey	Resources list	http://snarfed.org/workflow_software_survey	Nice overview of libraries, frameworks, and tools for managing semi-automated workflows and pipelines of tasks.
Google Fusion Tables	Data gathering, visualization, collaboration	http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/	Gather, visualize and share your data online. Visualize and publish your data as maps, timelines and charts. Host your data tables online. Combine data from multiple people.
Edinburgh Geoparser	NLP	http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/text.html	Find and geolocate place name mentions in free text.
Yahoo Placemaker	NLP	http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/	Find and geolocate place name mentions in free text.
Open Calais	NLP	http://www.opencalais.com/	General purpose entity recognition.
Gruff	Visualization	http://www.franz.com/agraph/gruff/	From Franz Inc.
Gephi	Visualization	http://gephi.org/	Extension of graph viz(?)
ONKI Ontology Service	Ontology tools	http://onki.fi/	Ontologies and gazetteers can be published as services for free
CIDOC-CRM(-EH)	Ontology tools	http://purl.org/crmeh	Archaeological domain extensions of CIDOC CRM
CIDOC CRM	Ontology tools	http://www.cidoc-crm.org	Cultural Heritage domain ontology
VMF	Ontology tools	http://www.doi.org/VMF/	The VMF matrix is a tool which can be used to automatically compute the "best fit" mappings between terms in controlled vocabularies in different metadata schemes and messages of interest to the educational, bibliographic and content publishing sectors.
SKOS	Ontology tools	http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/	W3C standard for KOS representation in RDF
STELLAR	Data conversion	http://reswin1.isd.glam.ac.uk/stellar/	Convert tabular delimited data to RDF via templates
	Resources list	http://linkeddata.org/tools	Useful reference
TileStache		http://tilestache.org/	TileStache is a Python-based server application that can serve up map tiles based on rendered geographic data.
Chronos Timeline	Visualization	http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/software/timeline/	Chronos Timeline is designed specifically for needs in the humanities and social sciences to represent time-based data.
TemaTres	Ontology tools	http://www.vocabularyserver.com/	TemaTres is an open source vocabulary server, web application to manage and exploit vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies and formal representations of knowledge.
MDP	Data processing	http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/	Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP) is a Python data processing framework.

Useful resources

Tony Hirst's blog — http://blog.ouseful.info/

Tony Hirst's visualizations — http://www.flickr.com/photos/psychemedia/

Periodic Table of Visualization Methods — http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Visualizing Meaning http://martha.mannlib.cornell.edu/charts/

Research papers/projects

Adam Moore, James Goulding, Tim Brailsford, and Helen Ashman. 2004. Practical applitudes: case studies of applications of the ZigZag hypermedia system. In Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HYPERTEXT '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 143-152. DOI=10.1145/1012807.1012851 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1012807.1012851 PDF available from http://tinyurl.com/d963hze .
Mapping performance culture: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ahzvven/mapping/map33.html: a collaboration between theatre history and geographical information science, they developed an interactive map of Nottingham which will enable you to find out about the kinds of performances and entertainments which were happening in the town, and about the audiences who might have attended those performances. Working in partnership with local archives, museums and libraries, the site enables digital access to a large amount of material on entertainment and social culture which has been previously difficult to access, collected from newspapers, diaries, playbills and other sources.