{"id":25,"date":"2024-04-10T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T14:58:58","slug":"tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earlyprint.org\/\">EarlyPrint<\/a> uses a variety of digital tools and software to power its database, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inl.github.io\/BlackLab\/\">BlackLab<\/a>: a search tool used for finding keywords or sequences within a large corpus of data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/xml\/xml_whatis.asp\">XML<\/a>: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used for structured and hierarchical management of metadata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morphadorner.northwestern.edu\/morphadorner\/\">MorphAdorner<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EarlyPrint&#8217;s search and analysis tools are powered by MorphAdorner, a Java-based software package designed for processing large data sets which &#8220;tokenizes text, regularizes the spelling of each word, lemmatizes it, assesses its syntax and assigns it a part of speech tag.&#8221; Developed specifically for humanities scholars seeking to conduct literary and linguistical analysis, MorphAdorner &#8220;adorns&#8221; or adds to the textual data in EarlyPrint by: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tokenization: splitting lines of text into discrete &#8220;tokens,&#8221; such as individual words and spaces to streamline machine reading (i.e., &#8220;I dream of plants&#8221; becomes &#8220;I,&#8221; &#8220;dream,&#8221; &#8220;of,&#8221; &#8220;plants&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Markup: affixing specific tags to various textual features such as linguistical categories, variant spellings of words with regularized forms, punctuation, and syntactical variations (i.e., &#8220;prynted&#8221; read and tagged as &#8220;printed&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distinguishing boundaries between words, sentences, line breaks, and punctuation to assist machine reading (i.e., &#8220;to morrow&#8221; read as one word instead of two) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MorphAdorner software is free to download from its website, which also features extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/morphadorner.northwestern.edu\/documentation\/\">documentation<\/a> on how to use it. EarlyPrint also features a <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyprint.org\/intros\/intro-to-morphadorner.html\">page<\/a> which explains the implementation of the software within the project. Thus, the use of a well-documented and openly accessible software aligns with the best practices of DH. Below is an example of using MorphAdorner to search for texts with &#8220;vvorkes,&#8221; an alternate spelling of &#8220;works.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/vvorkes-1024x469.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" style=\"width:684px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/vvorkes-1024x469.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/vvorkes-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/vvorkes-768x351.png 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/vvorkes.png 1154w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EarlyPrint uses a variety of digital tools and software to power its database, including: MorphAdorner: EarlyPrint&#8217;s search and analysis tools are powered by MorphAdorner, a Java-based software package designed for processing large data sets which &#8220;tokenizes text, regularizes the spelling of each word, lemmatizes it, assesses its syntax and assigns it a part of speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/digitalpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}