Digital Humanities: Resources

"Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you
collect, organize, cite, and share research."

"Providing the intellectual and strategic scaffolding to aid DH researchers successfully complete their research endeavors"

"The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook for historical scholars and digital humanists edited by Jim Clifford and Josh MacFadyen. It is designed to teach practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs."

"We publish novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching."

"American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps."

An annotated collection of digital humanities maps created in GIS.

" Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application, offers a visual interface for navigating scholarly, peer-reviewed humanities content, such as historical documents, images of art and artifacts, and any scholarship associated with those things"

"a corpus of late Modern English scientific writing, covering the period
between 1700 and 1900"

"The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) creates opportunities for new interdisciplinary models and methods of collaboration between faculty and students."

"Online repository of datasets compiled by historians of early North America. MEAD preserves and makes available these datasets in their original format and as comma-separated-value files (.csv)"

"visualizations about dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century"

"The Spatial History Project at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of students, staff, and scholars to engage in creative spatial, textual and visual analysis to further research in the humanities."

"StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events."

Use a spreadsheet to create and connect a geomap and a timeline.

"TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines."

"Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits." These exhibits can be internally or publicly shared.

"Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation."

"VisualEyes is a HTML5 version of the VisualEyes authoring tool for historic visualization to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations."

"A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System"

Create maps. Functions well with VR headsets.

Collection of data visualization tools

"SHIVA takes a new approach that makes it easy to add graphical and data-driven visualizations to websites. Elements such as data, charts, network graphs, maps, image montages, and timelines are easily created."

"R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics."

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies."

"When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years."

"An Open Source Tool Providing a Comprehensive But Easy to Use (Semi-)Automatic OCR Workflow for Historical Printings"