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TimeRime

TimeRime is a free, web-based timeline application for creating, viewing and comparing interactive timelines. This application requires registration, and timelines created within the application are public.

TOSCA

TOSCA was a syntactic analysis system available in the 1990s. It required users to apply word class tags and syntactic markers, which it then used for syntactic parsing.

Compare Lists

Compare Lists is a free, web-based tool for comparing text from two lists of URLs supplied by the user. This tool was developed and is maintained by the Digital Methods Initiative.

Google Blogsearch Scraper

The Google Blogsearch Scraper is a free, web-based tool for batch querying Google Blog Search. Users can submit a list of URLs to search, and a set of keywords to apply to them. For each query, the tool supplies a tag cloud and an HTML table, plus a text file that may be downloaded for further analysis.

Netvizz

Netvizz is a free, web-based tool for extracting datasets from Facebook. As the tool utilizes Facebook Apps, users must have a Facebook account to access it.

NetvizzToSentiStrength

NetvizzToSentiStrength is a free, web-based sentiment analysis tool for short texts, designed to work particularly with a Netvizz search of Facebook data. In addition to Netvizz data, it also accepts DMI-TCAT and CSV files. 

Google News Scraper

Google News Scraper is a free, web-based tool for batch querying news.google.com. Users can specify search terms, news sources, date range, location, language, version of Google (ex. .com, .ca, .co.uk, etc.), and what facets to include in the output. The tool returns the results as a table suitable for further analysis, and can also include thumbnail images for each search item.

Googlescraper (Lippmannian Device)

Googlescraper (Lippmannian Device) is a free, web-based tool for querying Google and saving the results for analysis. It allow users to specify URLs, keywords, and which keywords apply to each URL. The tool outputs as HTML, a tag cloud, and a text file. The tool must be used with FireFox, and requires users to first install the DMI toolbar, which permits the tool to work around Google's block against automated requests.

Issuecrawler

Issuecrawler is a free, web-based tool for performing co-link analysis on URLs, and generating a cluster graph of the results. Its options include snowball crawling for up to three degrees of separation, and inter-actor crawling. Users must request a free account before using the tool.

Compare Networks Over Time

Compare Networks Over Time is a free, web-based tool for comparing Issuecrawler networks, or data from a regularly scheduled crawl. The tool displays ranked actor lists for each comparison, in a format suitable for graphing via spreadsheet software. Tool input must be in XML format. Compare Networks Over Time is designed to be used particularly with output from the Govcom Foundation's Issuecrawler tool.