Digital Humanities

Tools & Platforms

As users and creators, digital humanists engage with a variety of digital tools to experiment, research, teach, play, and publish. A more comprehensive catalog of digital tools can be found at the DiRT Directory, a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. 

Organize Your Research

• Archive-It 
  Collect and access cultural heritage on the web | access
   
• OpenRefine 
  Clean and transform messy data
   
• Tropy
  Organize and describe photographs of research material | tutorial
   
• Webrecorder
  Capture and archive websites | video
   
• Zotero 
  Collect, organize, cite, and share research sources | guide

Work With Text

• AntConc 
  Analyzing large amounts of text | tutorial
   
• FromThePage 
  Transcribe handwritten documents online
   
• Juxta 
  Compare and collate versions of text | example
   
• Serendip
  Visually exploring topic models
   
• Voyant Tools 
  Read and analyze digital texts | guide

Create Maps & Visualizations

• ArcGIS Online 
  Map your data and tell location-based stories | access
   
• Carto 
  Map and analyze your location data | access
   
• Palladio 
  Visualize complex, multi-dimensional data | tutorial
   
• RAWgraph 
  Open source data visualization framework | access
   
• StoryMapJS 
  Create interactive location-based narratives
   
• TimelineJS 
  Build visually rich, interactive timelines

Publish Archives & Web Projects

• Mukurtu 
  Manage digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways | tutorial
   
• Omeka 
  Create collections, exhibits, and digital projects | example
   
• Reclaim Hosting 
  Web hosting faculty and students own and control
   
• Scalar 
  Author long-form, born-digital, multimodal scholarship | tutorial
   
• WordPress 
  Publishing websites and multimedia projects | access

Thank you to the wonderful librarians at Northwestern for this list of tools!