The article uses many different types of tools but the main two used at the heart of this DH project is The Linked Jazz Network Visualization Tool, and The Linked Jazz Transcript Analyzer.
(Use the drop-down menu below to learn more about the tools listed.)
The Linked Jazz Network Visualization Tool
A web-based visualization tool that offers multiple interactive views of the network of jazz musicians based on the triples the linked Jazz generated from processing transcripts. At the moment, the visualization only shows the knows of triples automatically generated by the Transcript Analyzer.
The Linked Jazz Transcript Analyzer
structures digital archival documents for different purposes and identifies named entities in texts. In the context of the project, we use the Analyzer to upload interview transcripts from open access archives and to identify personal names cited in interview transcripts.
These tools aren’t explicitly listed within the article, but it has ties with Digital Humanities through the goals of DH specifically through openness. The DH goal of openness is due to the fact that all of the information, and backgrounds that are gathered on these tools listed are open source. These open sources allow for the constant growth of information on the website due to the algorithm.
The development of these tools
The Development of these tools had mainly come from its base platforms of Wikipedia as well as DB-Pedia.
Wikipedia being the prime example of the tools used as a base platform due to its availability as an open-source platform. This feature allowed for the main premise of this site to launch and begin growing into the current model of the Linked Jazz Site that is up to this date.
DB-Pedia on the other hand was a more refined source of Wikipedia with its main features revolving around its different graphing technologies and its formality taking data from Wikipedia and refining it as well as keeping a constant updated database on everything introduced to Wikipedia.