George Mason University

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will build four plugins for Omeka that will facilitate the computational analysis of large collections and the close reading and annotation of individual digitized sources. In the effort to support the adoption and use of these tools by content experts, Omeka collections will produce a series of step-by-step case studies and usages. This will facilitate the computational analysis of large collections, and the close reading and annotation of individual digitized sources. A word frequency plugin will allow site creators and authorized users to offer a quantitative snapshot, and another plugin will allow them to chart the usage of words in document. With instructional guides and research case studies, these tools will help encourage both enthusiastic and reluctant scholars to explore digital archives, leading them to ask new types of research questions and explore topics previously out of their grasp.