Voyant Server

Voyant Server is a web application launcher for Voyant Tools – it makes it easy to run a stand-alone instance of Voyant Tools on your local machine, rather than A desktop launcher to control one or more Jetty instances. Make developing web-apps very easy by running up apps quickly and easily.

Voyant Server (not Voyant Tools, the web application) is an extensive adaption of JettyDesktop, see https://github.com/aw20/jettydesktop.

Installation

For more details on installation, configuration and running, see http://docs.voyant-tools.org/run-your-own/voyant-server/

Jetty Desktop requires Java6+ to be installed, but after that, it ships with everything you need to start running your web applications in Jetty (v8.1).

Known Issues

• VoyantServer has to be run from a folder that doesn't have a space (all the way up to the root)
• several tools and skins from Voyant Tools 1.0 still not available
• no backwards compatibility for Voyant Tools 1.0 yet

Release Notes

• version 1.0 (June 26th, 2014)
  • Initial release
• version 1.1 (July 5th, 2014)
  • FIX: server is terminated properly when quitting application on Mac
  • NEW: open menu of Voyant Tools home page now shows local corpora
  • NEW: now possible to specify open menu labels in Voyant Tools (see settings file)
  • NEW: now possible to make server open (beyond local address – see settings)
• version 2.0 M1 (Dec. 2, 2014)
  • new release to coincide with Voyant Tools 2.0 M1: https://github.com/sgsinclair/Voyant/tree/v2.0.0-M1
• version 2.0 M2 (Dec 16, 2014)
  • fix for file uploading
  • new UI elements in tool headers: help, options, switch tools, and export
• version 2.0 M4 (May 28, 2015)
  • shifted to using tabs in for tools (shows more tools available)
  • fixed bug for ingesting HTML (entire file was used before because of regression bug)
  • clicking on items in trends now triggers events properly
  • much improved loading of framework assets (much faster to load remotely)
  • more context feature has returned to KWICs
  • global stopword lists
  • and much more
• version 2.0 M5 (Jule 23, 2015)
  • new Phrases tool (for query and queryless n-gram analysis)
  • restored input format options during corpus creation
  • improved search box with better help
  • and more
• version 2.0 M6 (October 19, 2015)
  • export URL of default skin now remembers which panels are active
  • easier to have no stopwords selected
  • introdcutory text and documentation link under box
  • improved HTML5 Cirrus
  • preliminary RezoViz
  • reader enhancements
  • and more
• version 2.0 M7 (December 24, 2015)
  • built-in documentation
  • modify (add, remove, reorder) documents in a corpus
  • improved support for some Asian languages
  • improved support for touch devices
  • Knots tool reimplemented
  • fixed bug for applying stopwords globally
  • new corpus collocates visualization
  • export URL of default skin now remembers which panels are active
  • easier to have no stopwords selected
  • introdcutory text and documentation link under box
  • improved HTML5 Cirrus
  • preliminary RezoViz
  • reader enhancements
  • and more

License

Voyant Server is released under the same license as JettyDesktop, the GNU General Public License v3.0 (see license-GPL3.txt in this directory).