A few resources from the recent NEH Project Director’s Meeting

I recently attend an NEH Project Director’s meeting in DC and wanted to share news of a few projects that I thought might interest the group:

Massmine.org

(in pre-release)
http://www.massmine.org/

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“MassMine is a social media mining and archiving application that simplifies the process of collecting and managing large amounts of data across multiple sources. It is designed with the researcher in mind, providing a flexible framework for tackling individualized research needs. MassMine is designed to run both on personal computers and dedicated servers/clusters. MassMine handles credential authorizations, data acquisition & archiving, as well as customized data export and analysis.”

Poemage: A Visualization Tool in Support of Close Reading

http://www.sci.utah.edu/~nmccurdy/Poemage/

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“Poemage is a visualization system for exploring the sonic topology of a poem. We define sonic topology as the complex structures formed via the interaction of sonic patterns — words connected through some sonic or linguistic resemblance — across the space of the poem. Poemage was developed at the University of Utah as part of an ongoing, highly exploratory collaboration between data visualization experts and poets/poetry scholars. Additional details are provided in the companion paper [to appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics].”