Well-stocked, briefly annotated lists of tools kept by Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library and also keeper of the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog.  Tool categories include:

"The Versioning Machine is a framework and an interface for displaying multiple versions of text encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. While it provides for features typically found in critical editions, such as annotation and introductory material, it also takes advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic publication to allow for the comparison diplomatic versions of witnesses, and the ability to easily compare an image of the manuscript with a diplomatic version.
     The Versioning Machine is also a tool for textual editors, providing an environment that allows editors to immediately see the consequences of their editorial decisions. The Versioning Machine can be used locally on a Mac or a PC, or it can be mounted on the WWW for public access. The documentation provided with the software not only provides information about the use of the software, but builds upon the Critical Apparatus chapter of the TEI Guidelines to give further guidance to those who wish to use this method of encoding."

     For a powerful example of what Versioning Machine can produce, see Tanya Clement's In Transition: Selected Poems
by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

[need help figuring out what this software does]

From Whitney Artport site: 

"Barbara Lattanzi creates software for video improvisation and annotation, as well as other works of interactive media. Her work has been screened at venues such as the 2003 Ann Arbor Film Festival, the 2002 European Media Art Festival, and Robert Beck Memorial Cinema. Her experimental software "C-SPAN Karaoke" received an Honorary Mention at Transmediale 2005, the Berlin-based international media art festival. Her interactive media works have been exhibited at the 2003 Version>03 Digital Arts Convergence, Chicago; the 9th New York Digital Salon; Electronics Alive II Invitational; the 4th Seoul Net and Film Festival; and Turbulence.org. The production of her multimedia applets and software has been stimulated in part by the open structures of net-based venues such as the online software art archive runme.org and Rhizome's "Artbase," where her work is included. An essay about Lattanzi's software in relation to 1970s experimental film appears in Millenium Film Journal Nos. 39/40. She currently teaches at Smith College in Massachusetts. More information about Lattanzi's work can be found at www.wildernesspuppets.net"

Matthew Jocker's post to the Humanist list:

       Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:50:28 -0800
       From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers@stanford.edu>
       Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not
       In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us>

Richard makes a number of very good points here.  I wonder if our "tool-building" efforts have been a bit misdirected in favor of GUIs and web-based applications.  We might learn from the NLP-oriented linguists, statisticians, and others (including even the Drupal community) who have moved in the direction of open-source solutions and user-contributed modules.  Two such "tools" that I use daily include R (the stats package) and NLTK (the Python-based Natural Language Toolkit).   Both R and NLTK are just programming languages for which a number of methods/functions/tools/

[From Humanist list posting of March 10, 2010]:

I'm writing to share the latest version of TAToo. Find it athttp://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~tatoo/

TAToo is an embeddable, Flash-based text analysis tool.  Paste a shortcustomized snippet of code into your website, and you're off! It'sdirected toward casual web use, to give your online visitors a tasteof text analytics, with a word cloud, frequencies, concordances, andcollocates. It was developed at the University of Alberta under thesupervision of Geoffrey Rockwell and Stan Ruecker, with gratitude toTAPoR and our early morning research group.

With this release, we've sped up processes and fixed bugs (with thanksto reports from the Humanist community). There is also an experimentalWordpress widget and a simplified homepage more in the spirit of theproject. We welcome additional feedback and suggestions. Currently, weare polishing the code, so that it can be easily borrowed by others.If you can't wait, though, the source *is* already available.

I'm also curious where people stand in regards to such casual tools.Is there a value in combining analytics with a text for the incidentalreader to see, or is text analysis something that is primarily usefulfor those that seek it? Between this project, certain facets of StefanSinclair's Voyeur, and the work of Brian Pytlik Zillig atNebraska-Lincoln, it's definitely an area that's being considered indifferent ways.

Peter Organisciak