Exciting news!
The beta version of AVOBMAT is publicly available. It features sample databases including the ELTeC novels (15 databases) and DraCor dramas (16 databases).
What is AVOBMAT?
AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Text) is a multilingual text mining service created in close collaboration with researchers. It empowers scholars, educators, and students to explore large collections of textual and bibliographic data—without programming skills or costly hardware.
Built on an extensible, scalable, and modular cloud-based infrastructure, AVOBMAT ensures a transparent and reproducible research process supported by a wide range of analytical tools. Designed for environment-conscious use, it enables researchers to reveal hidden connections, enrich texts and metadata, and collaborate by sharing private databases. With support for 25 languages and customizable features, AVOBMAT makes advanced text analysis accessible so researchers can focus on critical interpretation and discovery.
Upload, clean & configure
Access public databases or upload yours easily in various formats.
Clean your texts and configure the settings for all the analyses.
Analyze
Interactive analysis and visualizations include topic modelling, Part-of-speech tagging, Named entity recognition, disambiguation and linking.
Export & Share
Export and import configuration settings. Save statistical data and visualizations. Share or make your databases public.
Why AVOBMAT?
Multilingual Text Enrichment
AVOBMAT can preprocess, analyse, and (semantically) enrich a large number of texts and metadata in several languages without coding skills.
Interactive Text Analysis
The analytical and visualization tools provide interactive close and distant reading of texts and bibliographic data.
Validated, Transparent and Customizable Workflow
AVOBMAT has a transparent, peer-reviewed workflow with customizable parameter settings for all tools.
User-friendly NLP tools
AVOBMAT combines bibliographic data and natural language processing research methods (e.g. transformer models) in an integrated, interactive and user-friendly web application.
Critical Analysis and Visualizations
AVOBMAT fosters critical analysis, for instance, by identifying data gaps and missing metadata values.
Comparative and Diachronic Analysis
AVOBMAT offers multilingual comparative analysis with time-based components.
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For whom?
Researchers, students, teachers of digital humanities, and libraries.
How can AVOBMAT help researchers, libraries and institutions that support or conduct digital humanities research and teaching?
Upload and explore
...your or your library’s large digital collections in innovative and interactive ways with customizable preprocessing, analysis & visualization tools;
Ask complex research questions
...by combining bibliographical data and text analyses and using NLP techniques
Gain new insights
...unveil overlooked connections, themes, trends & patterns
Critically analyze
...and interpret texts, (meta)data & visualizations
Identify biases and errors
(e.g. selection, metadata, classification) in your databases at scale to make more informed decisions about your research (questions)
Discover
...novel types of evidence and test old hypotheses
Teach
...digital humanities and highlight the challenges, limitations and strengths of computational text analysis and visual representation of digital texts and datasets
Collaborate
...with your colleagues, share your findings and make your databases public