Digital Humanities

"Guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities by researchers, teachers, and students. Curated by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara."

"The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. 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."

"TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval."

A lightweight JavaScript graphics library. For explanations, examples, classes and other help, please see the BonsaiJS API documentation site.

2D animation software suitable for beginners. For explanatory videos and other help, please see the tutorials page.

Open-source storyboarding software with Photoshop interaction capabilities.

Open-source 2D animation software. For beginning, intermediate, and advanced help help, please see this tutorials page.

You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes. Twine was originally created by Chris Klimas in 2009 and is now maintained by a whole bunch of people at several different repositories.

A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data, using HTML, SVG, and CSS. For explanations, examples, tutorials and other help, please see the D3 tutorials wiki.

Show data as charts, maps, and tables. Includes open source option.

Open-source visualization and exploration software for data analysis and graph creation. For explanations, tutorials, and other help, please see this Learn How to Use Gephi guide.

A user-friendly network visualization and analysis tool designed for beginners to network mapping, with a simpler platform that is still able to map, visualize, analyze and communicate complex data. Tutorials are available as well as a Demo page with a guided tour to help get you started.

Photoshop-like photoeditor program that runs entirely in Flash in a browser. Please see the Pixlr blog for tutorials and ideas. Additional tutorials are available on Youtube and various websites.

"Open-source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone." For explanations, tutorials, and other help, please see the RAWGraphs Learning site.

Includes yEd Graph Editor and yFiles diagramming software. For help using the software, please see the Video Tutorial and yEd Graph Editor Manual.

Platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. It includes source code, a YouTube channel, and a map library.

"Allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines." A suite of add-on tools for Omeka. It includes a Neatline User Community Documentation page with links to tutorials and guides.

A map wiki with data about roads, trails, cafes, railway stations, and more, all available free for use under an Open Data Commons license. For explanations, tutorials and other help, please see the Video tutorials wiki and help page.

"Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD." For explanations, examples, classes and other help, please see the Training Material page.

Open-source software that lets you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. There is a Story Maps Basic Tutorial as well as other help available on the Resources page.

Harvard's open-source software for building, collaborating with, editing, visualizing, and publishing geospatial information. User manuals and tutorials are available on the How To page.

Upload a spreadsheet to create and publish a timeline linked with images and mapped locations. The homepage holds a quick tutorial, and several other tutorials are available on other sites, like this one from the University of Texas or this one from School of Data.

Content management system (CMS) to install on a site you host yourself. Flexible and customizable and useful for advanced projects. The Drupal site includes many resources, including a User Guide, a community-developed Tutorials page, and a First Time User Guide.

"Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits." There are many Omeka tutorials available online. An official Omeka S User Manual is also available as well as step-by-step instructions for how to Build a Website.

"Scalar is 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." A User's Guide is available and includes help for Getting Started.

Open-source software you can use to create a website, blog, or app. Guides and tutorials are available at www.wpbeginner.com.

A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis. Laurence Anthony, the author of the software, provides user support like this usage guide and video tutorials on the AntConc software page.

A Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text. The University of Massachusetts (creator of MALLET) provides a tutorial presentation and video tutorial, as well as quick start guides.

A document mining application originally built for investigative journalists, also used for legal work, training machine learning models, and research of all types. Overview's help page provides instruction on usage and features.

A programming language used for textual data and analysis. Python provides help with getting started and includes a guide for those with experience in programming as well as a guide for non-programmers that has links to books, courses, tutorials and python-centered blogs.

R is an analysis and visualization tool that is a programming language as well as a command-based application. R is a robust tool, but it does require some basic understanding of statistics. There are many tutorials and user guides available, including this one from the R Project, which also offers a library of source code. Also available are resources like open source guide books, like Text Mining with R, user communities, like R-Bloggers, and project and lesson guides, like Basic Text Processing in R.

Text Encoding and Interchange: A consortium providing tools, support, and guidelines specifying encoding methods for machine-readable texts. Includes TAPAS Project (for archiving and publishing), Roma (for customizations), OxGarage (for conversions), stylesheets, and a wiki tools page. Included are a number of tutorials to Teach Yourself TEI.Or check out TEI by Example for tutorials, examples, exercises and more for help in learning TEI.

A web-based text reading and analysis environment that facilitates reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities work. Voyant Tools Help provides guides, tutorials, workshops, and additional information about using Voyant.