Subject Guides: Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Tools

Digital Humanities Tools

Tool Boxes, Registries, Crawlers & more!

Bibliopedia Bibliopedia will perform advanced data-mining and cross-referencing of scholarly literature to create a humanities-centered collaboratory.
Color Brewer Find the right color palette for your maps and mapping tools.
Digital Toy Chest for Humanists Alan Liu's toolbox.
DiRT A tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use.
TextGrid Project and tools for a digital ecosystem. Since 2006.
Toolbox for Digital Projects If this is your first time, try out this link to Miriam Posner's Toolbox.

Web Publishing Tools & Timelines

Omeka & Neatline Omeka.net is web-publishing platform that allows anyone to create or collaborate on a website to display collections and build digital exhibitions. Neatline is Omeka's timeline/mapping plugin available in omeka.org installations only.
Scalar Great tool for non-linear narratives. Options and support available for the novice and the more advanced users.
StoryMap JS Looking for a easy to use tool in your class. This is it! Requires login via your Google account.

Best Practices NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation of Cultural Heritage Materials Metadata Standards Bibframe BIBFRAME provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, both on the web, and in the broader networked

Annotation Studio A suite of collaborative web-based annotation tools.
Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis (CATMA) A tool for literary scholars, students and other parties with an interest in text analysis and literary research.
Juxta Juxta is an open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. Originally designed to aid scholars and editors examine the history of a text from manuscript to print versions, Juxta offers a number of possibilities for humanities computing and textual scholarship.
Mallet MALLET (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit) is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
NotaBene Annotate course material online, either for yourself or to discuss it with others.
Republic of Letters The Republic of Literature (RL) is a free, easy to use, adaptable web resource with which researchers can store complex humanities data, perform complicated searches for finding the veritable needle in the haystack; and even share any of the data they wish with either select other users or the whole world.
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortiumthat develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines (since 1994) that specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics.
TimeMapper Quickly create a timeline from a spreadsheet.
Weka 3: Data Mining Software in Java Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. (GNU/open source)
WordSeer WordSeer is a text analysis environment that combines visualization, information retrieval, sense-making, and and natural language processing to make the contents of text navigable, accessible, and useful.

Visualization Tools (In alphabetical order)

Cartodb Maps for the web, made easy. Free or priced levels of service.
D3
Fabula Mapping tool with animation.
Gephi
FilmStrips
Information is Beautiful
Map Story Mapping tool.
Many Eyes (IBM) Engine and templates to visualize your data.
NGram Viewer
Paper Machines Papermachines.org a plugin for Zotero that makes cutting-edge topic-modeling analysis accessible to humanities researchers without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge.
Textal Free smartphone app to analyze websites, tweet streams, & documents. You can generate graphs and statics, and share data and visualizations as you like.
Voyant
WorldMap Build your own maps.

Metadata Standards

Bibframe BIBFRAME provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, both on the web, and in the broader networked world.
Dublin Core
Metadata Standards (Library of Congress) Includes: PREMIS (preservation), EAD (encoded archival description) and VRA Core (visual resources).
Resource Description Framework (RDF) A standard model for data interchange on the Web.