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tool: OxCal

Purpose: 

A software application that enables a user to perform radiocarbon calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information. It may be used to calculate the probable age ranges of scientifically dated samples through radiocarbon calibration, sapwood estimates and other methods. It is possible to establish age by measuring the rate of decay of the radioactive isotope 14C - a naturally occurring ubiquitous entity found in all life-forms.

Features: 
  • radiocarbon calibration
  • archaeological and environmental chronological analysis
A&H use case 1 description: 
The AHRB-funded 'Spatial and chronological patterns in the "Neolithisation" of Europe' project utilised OxCal to analyse economic and cultural items that had been identied as late Mesolithic or early Neolithic and apply a common standard for establishing the approximate date of their origins.
Creator: 
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford
Publisher: 
University of Oxford
Specifications: 
CALIB 14c
Groningen (.dta) import format
Software/programming languages used: 
OxCal
Discipline: 
Archaeology
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Tags: 
text analysis
web concordance
concordance
word list
word usage
Licence: 
Freeware
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
Platform: 
JavaScript enabled browser
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 12:36

tool: Concordance

Purpose: 

A software tool for performing concordance – the analysis of a set of words within its immediate context - on a body of text. The tool performs full concordance, reading and analysing each and every word in a text. It was initially written for the analysis of English texts, but has since been extended to cater for other Western languages. Limited support is also provided for text in East Asian scripts, such as Chinese and Korean.

Features: 
  • Index and word list creation
  • Word frequency count
  • Word usage comparison
  • Keyword analysis
  • Phrase and idiom discovery
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language 1500-1850 project used Concordance to analyse samples of Welsh text of different stylistic levels and varying geographic provenance that were created between 1500-1850.
Creator: 
R.J.C. Watt
Publisher: 
R.J.C. Watt
Specifications: 
Unknown
Data capture: 
Text recognition
Data analysis: 
Collocating
Content analysis
Topic Detection and Tracking
Software/programming languages used: 
Concordance
Discipline: 
Linguistics
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Text encoding - descriptive
Alternate tool(s): 

WordSmith, AntConc

Tags: 
text analysis
web concordance
concordance
word list
word usage
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 12:30