WordSeer is a site for text analysis based on the grammatical structure of text. It is designed to assist scholars to make use of the ever-growing digital collections available to them in the humanities. The development of WordSeer is on-going and at present, makes three digital collections available to research and experiment with: Shakespeare's Works, Stephen Crane's Works, and Slave Narratives. In this video, the project manager demonstrates how e-tools and digitised collections can assist humanities researchers in their research, and potentially decrease their workloads.

WordSeer will allow a user to search the digital collections, read and annotate digitised works, view word frequencies, visualise word distributions (within or across texts), or create individual subcollections.

Additional how-to videos are available on YouTube.