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. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.
Neatline
A suite of add-on tools for Omeka, Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines.
DH Press
DH Press is a flexible, repurposable, extensible digital humanities toolkit designed for non-technical users. It enables administrative users to mashup and visualize a variety of digitized humanities-related material, including historical maps, images, manuscripts, and multimedia content. DH Press can be used to create a range of digital projects, from virtual walking tours and interactive exhibits, to classroom teaching tools and community repositories
Viewshare
A free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections.
Data Building/Cleaning
Google Refine
A tool for working with data, cleaning up data, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases.
XML
eXtensible Markup Language. A markup language designed to store and transport data. It’s easy to learn, and tags can be customized by the user.
Wireframing Tools
Balsamiq
A web-based wireframing and mock up tool.
Visio (Requires a PC)
A tool for creating and sharing diagrams and flowcharts.
Collaboration Tools
Google Drive
A free web-based tool for storing, accessing and sharing files.
Trello
A free, web-based project management application which helps you keep track of and organize tasks.
Zotero
A free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials
Evernote
A suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving.
Content Management Systems and Web Publishing
WordPress
A free and open source blogging tool and content management system, whose flexibility as a digital humanities tool stems from its extensive library of plugins. DH Press–a project of the Digital Innovation Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill–is built on the WordPress platform and its plugin-based architecture.
Commentpress
An open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.
Drupal
Drupal is a free, open source software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization.
Drupal for Humanists
A guide geared specifically at humanists that details how to shape Drupal core and its community-developed “modules” into web environments that are highly customized for use in the humanities, but don’t require code-writing expertise to develop or maintain.
ScholarPress
A set of WordPress plugins developed by the Center for History and New Media for scholarly and pedagogical purposes.
Data Visualization
Tableau Public
A free data visualization software. It allows users to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web
Palladio
A web-based platform for the visualization of complex, multi-dimensional data.
Voyant
A web-based text reading and analysis environment.
Raw Density
A tool for creating vector-based visualization based on data
Simile
A collection of free, open-source web widgets, mostly for data visualizations.
rgraph
An open source web charts library that produces charts dynamically with JavaScript
Timeline Tools
Chronos Timeline
Designed specifically for needs in the humanities and social sciences to represent time-based data. Chronos allows scholars and students to dynamically present historical data in a flexible online environment. Switching easily between vertical and horizontal orientations, researchers can quickly scan large number of events, highlight and filter events based on subject matter or tags, and recontextualize historical data.
InnovationGeo
A suite of tools for creating and sharing maps online
MapAList
A tool for creating customized Google maps from lists of address.
Historypin
A digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections. Users are able to use the location and date of their content to “pin” it to Google Maps.
Neatline
A suite of add-on tools for Omeka that allows users to create timelines.
QGIS
A cross-platform free and open source desktop geographic information systems (GIS) application that provides data viewing, editing, and analysis capabilities.
PLOTS Map Knitter
An easy-to-use DIY tool for combining (“stitching”) maps together
Network Analysis
NodeXL
A free and open-source network analysis and visualization software package for Microsoft Excel 2007/2010.
Gephi
An open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs.
Other
Digital Research Tools (DiRT)
A tool, service, and the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
WraggeLabs Emporium
A free suite of tools designed for digital historians. It was designed especially to meet the needs of Australian historians but is open to all.
Tales of Things
Allows users to link any object to a video or text which provides further description for that project. It makes use of QR codes.
QueryPic
Provides a new way of seeing, searching and understanding the digitized newspapers made available by Trove and Papers Past.
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