From the post:
The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
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Interesting concept but the annotations are too brief to convey much information. Not to mention that within a category, say Conduct linguistic research or Transcribe handwritten or spoken texts, the entries have no apparent order, or should I say they are not arranged in alphabetical order by name. There may be some other order that is escaping me.
Some entries appear in the wrong categories, such as Xalan being found under Transcribe handwritten or spoken texts:
Xalan
Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.
Not what I think of when I think about transcribing handwritten or spoken texts. You?
I didn’t see a process for submitting corrections/comments on resources. I will check and post on this again. It could be a useful tool.
I first saw this in a tweet by Christophe Lalanne.