LibGuides: Digital Humanities Resources: Tools by Category

Tools

Digital Exhibits

Omeka
A platform for creating and displaying collections, research, exhibits, and digital projects. To learn more about setting up an Omeka project, email Sasha Renninger.
For more info: Omeka Guide
Scalar
An authoring and publishing platform for writing long-form, born-digital, multimodal scholarship online. To learn more about setting up an Omeka project, email Sasha Renninger.
Mukurtu
Manage, share, preserve, and exchange digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways.
Neatline
An Omeka extension for telling stories using interactive maps and timelines. To learn more about setting up a Neatline project, email Sasha Renninger.
Scripto
An Omeka extension for crowdsourcing the transcripton of texts. To learn more about setting up a Scripto project, email Sasha Renninger.
Jekyll
Framework for building static web pages with free hosting through Github Pages. Some command line experience required.

Website Builders

WordPress
A popular platform for publishing websites and other types of multimedia projects.
Drupal
Complex, open-source content management system. Requires a hosting environment.
Weebly
Simple drag-and-drop freemium website building and hosting service.
NewHive
A multimedia platform and social hub for creating web-based cultural and artistic works and narratives.

Embeddable Exhibit Building Tools

StoryMap JS
A free tool to for creating interactive location-based narratives on the web. Explore some examples at Penn or elsewhere on the web.
Timeline JS
An open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Explore some examples at Penn or elsewhere on the web.
TimeMapper
Combine the functions of StoryMap and Timeline into a simple, combined web application.

Text Analysis

AntConc
Application for analyzing large amounts of text.
Juxta
A tool that allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work.
Voyant Tools
A web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
MALLET
MALLET (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit) is a collection of tools that facilitate document classification, sequence tagging, and topic modeling. There is also an add-on toolkit (Graphical Models in MALLET) for visualization.
Stanford Natural Language Processing Tools
Including the Named Entity Recognizer, Parser, and English Tokenizer.
TAPoR
This collection of text analysis tools hosted by the University of Alberta provides XML, HTML, and plain text analysis. Upload documents to extract common words, determine colocates, seperate HTML tags, and extract XML tagged information.
Topic Modelling Tool
This is a simple free tool that allows users to topic model texts using MALLET, but with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
WordSeer
WordSeer is a collection of text analysis tools targeted at humanities scholars that includes side-by-side comparison, grammatical search, and document/sentence/word-set features.
FromThePage
Allows users to crowdsource the transcriptions of handwritten documents online.
Scripto
Crowdsourcing transcription tool for Omeka, Wordpress, and Drupal. For more information about Scripto-Omeka integration, email Sasha Renninger (see right pane for contact details).

Mapping

Desktop Platforms

ArcGIS
An extensive proprietary package of geospatial software. For more information, see the ArcGIS guide.
QGIS
Free and open source software to create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information. For more information, see the QGIS guide.

Web Mapping Platforms

ArcGIS Online
Web platform for sharing and curating spatial data.
Carto
Open spatial analysis platform for discovery, prediction, and visualization.
Google Maps
Create simple maps using the Google maps interface.
Google Fusion Tables
Create more complex maps using the Google maps interface. For more information, see the Google Fusion Tables guide.
Palladio
Visualize complex historical data with ease.
Map Warper
A free to use, open source map warper, map georectifier, and image georeferencer tool.
Leaflet
Open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
Mapbox
Make customizable maps based on OpenStreetMap.
OpenLayers
An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
Mapzen
An open, sustainable, and accessible mapping platform.
GeoServer
Open source server for sharing geospatial data.
Culture Blocks
Free mapping tool that supports people making decisions about place and creativity in Philadelphia.
Social Explorer
Access to demographic information about the United States, including thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790.
PolicyMap
GIS mapping from PolicyMap allows you to map data quickly and easily. This interactive software provides real intelligence with over 37000 indicators.
SimplyMap
Create professional quality maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.
WorldMap
Open-source software to explore, visualize, edit, collaborate with, and publish geospatial information, from Harvard.
HyperCities
A digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces.

Map-Based Storytelling

Neatline
An Omeka extension for telling stories using interactive maps and timelines. To learn more about setting up a Neatline project, email Sasha Renninger.
StoryMap JS
A free tool to for creating interactive location-based narratives on the web.
TimeMapper
Combine the functions of StoryMap and Timeline into a simple, combined web application.
Story Maps by Esri
Web-based interface for sharing and curating GIS data.

Data Management & Visualization

D3
JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS.
R
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Palladio
Visualize complex historical data with ease.
Raw by Density Design
Quick, web-based tool for instantly converting spreadsheets to visualizations.
plot.ly
Create informative graphics using open source, visualization library and online chart creation tool.
Gephi
Gephi is a free, open-source interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
NodeXL
NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013 for creating network graphs.
Viewshare
Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds).
Pajek
Pajek is a program for large network analysis and visualization.
Bokeh
Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation.
HoloViews
Python library that makes analyzing and visualizing scientific or engineering data much simpler, more intuitive, and more easily reproducible.
matplotlib
Python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms.

Organizing Reasearch

Archive-It
The leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web.
OpenRefine
A powerful tool for working with (cleaning, transforming) messy data.
Zotero
A free tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
Github
Web repository and tool for versioning, sharing, and storing code and some file types.