TAPoR ARCHIVE


Date archived: January 2020


This readme file is about the archive of the TAPoR 3.0 data. 


TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval. Its web address is www.tapor.ca. It is currently in its third version, TAPoR 3.0.


The project is led by Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, and Milena Radzikowska and housed at the University of Alberta. Support for this project came from Compute Canada Calcul: Westgrid, the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, University of Alberta, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Text Mining the Novel, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.


WITH TAPoR 3.0 YOU CAN:
-Discover text manipulation, analysis, and visualization tools
-Discover historic tools
-Read tool reviews and recommendations
-Learn from papers, articles and other sources about specific tools
-Tag, comment, rate, and review collaboratively
-Browse lists of related tools in order to discover tools more easily


We have recently added data from the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) project. Therefore TAPoR contains data for tools beyond just text analysis tools.


ARCHIVE CONTENT
The archive contains:
-A readme text document.
-An SQL dump file of the database that contains the list of tools and information about the tools in different tables.
-A folder containing Portable Document Format(PDF) documents of snapshots of the TAPoR user interface.
-A folder that contains XML files of the data from the database's tables.
-A text document that presents the design of the tables in the database.
-An API documentation document.
 
HOW TO VIEW THE DATA IN DATABASE
To access the information in the database, the SQL dump file has to be imported into a database engine. We suggest MySQL which is open source and freely available.




DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TABLES IN THE (IMPORTED) DATABASE


*tool_attributes*
Contains a list of all the attributes of tools


*attribute_values*
Contains the options each attribute can take


*comments*
Contains all the comments made about tools in TAPoRr. Each comment has data that links it to the commentator and the tool commented on.


*featured_tools*
List of tools that appear on the frontpage.


*pages*
Static web pages that are used through TAPoR like the about page.


*schema_migrations*
Back end info regarding the changes done to the database with the Ruby on Rails framework.


*suggested_tools*
Suggested tools for each tool. This are lists of tools related to a tool curated by administrators.


*tags*
This table holds a list of tags. Just like attributes, a tool can have a number of tags. 


*tool_attributes*
This table contains columns for tools, tool attributes and attribute values.


*tool_list_items*
It contains the tools that make up a tool list


-*tool_list_user_roles*
User roles for each tool list (was not fully utilised)


*tool_lists*
This table contains a set of tools usually under one common name or parent program.


*tool_ratings*
Contains individual ratings from each user to a particular tool.


*tool_tags*
Shows the tags of the tools and the user who made the tag.


*tool_use_metrics*
Timestamps of when a user visited a tool


*tools*
This table contains the list of tools with other information, for example: information about the tool creation, the url, the language and date creation.


*users*
This able contain information about registered users of TAPoR.