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For breakout groups in the "Out-of-the-Box" DH Tools session at the Boston-Area DH Consortium Faculty Retreat (Fall 2013):

Voyant

• visit http://voyant-tools.org and upload a text you want to analyse
• for sample texts you can grab the plain text file from Project Gutenberg.

Oxygen/TEI BP

• download trial version of Oxygen: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html (and sign up for trial account; registration key will arrive in email)
• download TEI schema and templates as a zip file
• open exercise_template.xml from within Oxygen
• to view with TEI Boilerplate, just open the XML file in a browser
• crib sheets and other materials are available here: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/_current/handouts/

Juxta

• visit http://www.juxtacommons.org, or download the free-standing tool

Omeka

• use the Omeka sandbox with dummy account: http://omeka.org/sandbox

• log in at http://omeka.org/sandbox/admin/users/login
• user name: demo; password: sandbox

Neatline

• visit http://sandbox.neatline.org/webservice/nl-admin/register and create an account
• visit http://sandbox.neatline.org/webservice/nl-admin/login and log in

Resources:

• Start in your own library
• DHAnswers
• DIRT Wiki
• TEI by example
• ProfHacker (esp. Lincoln Mullen's current item on how to pick your tools)
• Lisa Spiro’s post on getting started in DH