Cadmus

Cadmus: Open-Source Textual Scholarship Platform

Cadmus is an open-source, web-based platform for textual scholarship and analysis. It allows scholars to upload texts, annotate them, visualize connections, and collaborate with others. Cadmus aims to support new methods of reading, analyzing, and publishing texts.

What is Cadmus?

Cadmus is an open-source platform designed for scholars and researchers working with texts. It provides a suite of tools to upload texts, manually or bulk import them, annotate paragraphs, highlight terms, link concepts across documents, view text reuse and allusion visualizations, and collaborate with other scholars.

Some key features of Cadmus include:

• Flexible text upload for PDFs, Word docs, Markdown, HTML, XML, and more
• Annotation tools for close reading, including paragraph comments, text highlights, tags, links, and rich text formatting
• Powerful search and filtering to find passages, terms, tags, and annotations
• Visualizations to explore text reuse, allusions, people/places networks, and more
• Built-in collaboration tools to share access, comment, review changes, and discuss texts
• Customizable layouts, themes, workflows for textual projects
• Full-text search indexing for uploaded document collections
• APIs and integrations with outside tools like Zotero, GitHub, Nuxeo, and more

Cadmus aims to support new methods of reading, analyzing, and publishing texts using the flexibility of the digital environment. Its open and extensible architecture makes it suitable for diverse scholarly projects in the humanities and beyond.

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