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Concordia is a platform for crowdsourcing transcription and tagging of text in digitized images. It was developed by the Library of Congress so that volunteers of all backgrounds could transcribe and tag digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library’s collections that could not otherwise be done by optical character recognition.

Gravitropic response is studied in most of the laboratories working with Arabidopsis thaliana, for example, to detect new phenotypes in mutants. However, manual analysis of images and microscopy data are known to be subjected to human bias. This is particularly the case for manual measurements of root bending as the angle is set subjectively. In this context, it is essential to develop and use automated or semi-automated image analysis to produce faster, reproducible, and unbiased data. In...

TextTools is a freeware corpus linguistics tool developed in Python to aid in research. This program analyzes user-created corpora and displays information about word (token) frequency, n-grams, clusters, collocations, keyword in context (KWIC), and keyness. TextTools is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive and will run natively on Mac OS X.

pyELib is a free open source system to create and manage any collection of eBooks. Unlike other eBooks management softwares, pyELib doesn't need the user to input neither titles nor ISBNs, since it automatically analyzes the files and searches for details on the internet. Dupes and different editions are properly handled. Each book is then automatically associated to one or more category (through machine learning) and, if desired, renamed. The library is stored in a MySQL database...

Quick Quote allows you to store quotes and easily find them by searching for things like names, dates, events or anything else you tag when entering your quote. Great for history students, or people who often use quotes from people, such as historical, political figures, or actors, inventors, anyone who has said something worth remembering, and would like easy access to them.

NARA Uploader is a free tool to upload works from NARA to Wikimedia Commons, complete with metadata, with minimum fuss.