LibGuides: Digital Humanities: Tools

Tools for Digital Humanities

There are continuous creation of new tools in Digital Humanities, so the lists here are not exhaustive or definitive, neither are the categories.

A very useful source of tools is TAPoR which now includes the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) Directory. TAPoR provides reviews and recommendations of text manipulation, analysis and visualisation tools.

A companion website to TAPoR is Methodica Commons which provides research methods and techniques for analysing texts

Text Analysis/Text Data Mining, Text/Corpus Analysis

AntConc
A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis
CATMA: Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis
A tool for 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
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
Google Ngram Viewer
Based on Google Books content enables users to keep track of change in usage or words and terms across time
Textal
Textal is a free smartphone app that allows one to analyze websites, tweet streams, and documents.
SADiLAR Technologies
Tools, services and technologies available from SADiLAR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources)
Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

Maps, Timelines, Network Analysis and Visualisations

CartoDB
CartoDB is an easy to use, web-based platform that allows users to work with spatial data and work with maps. CartoDB offers a full paid version of its software and a limited free version.
Gephi
Gephi is a visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. It is open-source and free.
Palladio
Palladio is a mapping and networking tool developed specifically for humanist inquiry. It allows scholars to explore relationships across time by uploading spreadsheet data and visualizing the relationships between coordinates.
StoryMapJS
StoryMap JS is a free tool that allows users to tell stories by mapping a series of events and corresponding locations. The tool is easy to use and allows users to pull videos and pictures from places such as YouTube, Flickr, and more.
OpenStreetMap
A collection of open data collected by a community GIS professionals, scholars, and hobbyists interested in providing accessible GIS information for people interested in building tools.
QGIS
Free open source GIS. Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and mobile devices
Google Mapping Tools

Digital Exhibits

Omeka
Omeka is an open source platform commonly used by librarians, archivists, and museum professionals to create digital exhibits. There is a basic version of the software that can be hosted through the web and a more advanced version that requires web-hosting from an institution.
Mukurtu
Murkutu is an ethically-minded, community-driven online archiving platform for cultural heritage material.

Digital Humanities: Tools

Tools for Digital Humanities

Text Analysis/Text Data Mining, Text/Corpus Analysis

Maps, Timelines, Network Analysis and Visualisations

Digital Exhibits

Processes of DH