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Unlocking the Power of Readex Text Explorer

What exactly does RTE do for digital explorers?

RTE is an end-to-end set of workflow tools that empower users to do the following:

• find texts using traditional “search” methodologies, or using the Suggested Searches tool provided in many Readex products
• choose texts to create a corpus/sample set for study (“corpus” and “sample set” are the words commonly used by researchers to describe the content they are exploring)
• run exploration/analysis scripts against the corpus—for example, scripts that reveal common word patterns, less common word patterns, themes, and more
• change and revise the corpus on demand (students like to model different scenarios on the fly to see more deeply into the texts—this is often called “re-faceting”)
• export the results and use them in reports, papers, and presentations.

At the core of Readex Text Explorer is a set of software tools known as “Voyant Tools.” Voyant is the most widely accepted set of exploration tools among scholars and students alike (which is why it is so popular in Digital Humanities settings). Surrounding the Voyant Tools is a complete workflow designed by Readex—a workflow from start to finish—to enable the most effective and rewarding “text explorations.”