Digital humanities tools
There are a number of tools available for DH projects. Some of them were developed specifically for DH while others have been re-purposed for DH projects. The list below has a few of our favorite tools. Other lists to consult include Alan Liu's DH Resources for Building Projects, Miriam Posner's DH101 Resource Guide, and the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative's tools page.
Multi-use tools
- Knight Lab: A suite of tools developed at Northwestern University that make it easy to tell better stories; tools include Juxtapose, Storyline, StoryMap, Timeline, Scene, and Soundcite
- Scalar: A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that's designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online
Collaboration tools
- Trello: A free, web-based project management application that helps you keep track of and organize your tasks
- Zotero: A free and open-source application that helps you build and manage your bibliography and citations; see also our LibGuide for step-by-step instructions to install, sign-up, and use Zotero
- Hypothes.is: An online annotation tool that encourages collaboration; check out Washington University in St. Louis's guide for more information and walkthroughs
- Evernote: A suite of software services designed for note-taking and archiving; this is a freemium option
Text analysis, data mining, and data visualization tools
- Voyant: A web-based reading and analysis platform for digital texts
- Tableau: An analytics platform that makes it easier to explore and manage data
- Anaconda (Python programming): A easy way to perform Python/R data science and machine learning on a single machine
- Google Books N-Gram viewer: Analyzes historical word occurrance, usage and changes over time, and allows users to download data for more intesive research; Culturomics is an add-on for Google N-Grams
- Time Magazine Corpus: US mainstream cultural text analysis via Time Magazine's archive (1923-2006)
- Juxtla: A cross-platform tool for collating, comparing, and analyzing any kind of number of textual objects
- Data Visualization Tools: Somewhat out-of-date now but the lists are still useful
Storytelling tools
- Omeka: A free resource to create digital archives, museums, and other projects that have artifacts to display and explain; we will host that for you via Reclaim Hosting
- Collection Builder: An open source tool framework for creating digital collections and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata
- Pressbooks: A versatile, user-friendly publishing platform that be used to create digitally native books and zines. Though it has a free trial, it costs money; if there is interest, we may look in to an enterprise subscription.
- Wax: A minimal computing project that is designed to produce digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility
- timline.js: Using Java and Google Sheets templates, you can quickly create interactive timelines with images, videos, and other content
- We Video: An all-in-one scalable web-based story editor
- Neatline: A suite of add-on tools for Omeka that allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images, and timelines
- US Census data visualization: Examples of data visualizations from US Census data
Data visualization
- R-Project: An integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation, and graphical display
- Data-Driven Documents: A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data; D3 helps you bring your data to life using HTML, CSS, and vector graphics (SVG)
- Walrus: A tool for interactively visualizing large directed graphs in three-dimensional space
- Canva: A freemium graphic design tool with infographic templates
- Piktochart: A freemium, easy-to-use infographic creator