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Tools for Working with Text

Tool What can I use this for? Training/Support materials? License type
<oXygen/> .xml editor Author, edit and publish XML and JSON documents, create stylesheets, databases and CMS. Useful for creation of scholarly editing projects and interoperable with TEI standards. Extensive documentation and technical support Proprietary: 30 day free trial, low-cost academic subscriptions available.
GALE Digital Scholar Lab Create dataset, no-code text-mining and data analysis, sentiment analysis. Visit the Digital Scholar Lab Learning Centre Subscription via UoL (login required)
Notepad++ Entry level plain-text editor suitable for transcription/mark-up, with more advanced extensions allowing data-cleaning and transformation. Visit the NPP Help Centre OpenSource. Can be installed on UoL machines using AppsAnywhere
TextGrid Set of open-source tools for scholarly editing, TEI compatible and interoperable with <oXygen/> (to which it is a good opensource alternative). Tutorials and documentation; community pages. OpenSource
Transkribus AI-assisted transcription of manuscript and printed texts Transkribus resource centre. Freemium – limited free version available (tiered subscription model).
AntConc Freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis Documentation; google groups discussion group. OpenSource