Learn about Tools
The UVA Library offers many workshops related to Digital Humanities Tools. Find a full listing of upcoming events and workshops on the UVA Library Public Events Calendar. Examples of tools taught in upcoming workshops include:
- R/R Studio: Introduction, Data Wrangling, Data Visualization
- Python: Introduction, Using APIs, Web Scraping
- Git/GitHub: Introduction
- Tableau: Data Visualization
- GIS Workshops
Finding the Right Tool
The University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) Library has put together a great resource for finding digital scholarship tools. Search results can be limited by cost, technical requirements and type of tool.
The UNC Digital Humanities Digital Innovation Lab provides a useful list of tools and resources for different types of DH projects.
Use TAPoR to find research tools for studying texts. It terms itself a
"gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval." According to the site, with TAPoR you can:
- Discover text manipulation, analysis, and visualization tools
- Discover historic tools
- Read tool reviews and recommendations
- Learn about papers, articles and other sources about specific tools
- Tag, comment, rate, and review collaboratively
- Browse lists of related tools in order to discover tools more easily
DH Toychest: Digital Humanities Resources for Project Building, curated by Alan Liu, is another option for finding tools as well as data collections and datasets. Some sections have not been updated recently - check the last date of update and be aware that some information may be outdated or superseded at this point.
Not sure which tool to choose or method to apply? You might try asking the folks at the UVA Scholars' Lab for a recommendation.
Example Tools
HathiTrust Research Center Analytics provides web-based tools for text analysis as well as datasets for analysis.
Hypothesis allows users to annotate websites using a Chrome extension or bookmarklet.
Northwestern University's Knight Lab has created several easy-to-use storytelling tools that might be of interest, including: Timeline JS (which I used for the timeline on the homepage), StoryMap JS, Storyline JS, Soundcite JS, Juxtapose JS and Scene VR.
Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms fro sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Open Refine is a free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data.
Created and supported by the UVA Scholars' Lab, Neatline is a suite of add-on tools for Omeka that allows for interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.
Tableau is a tool for data visualizations. Classes for learning more about using Tableau are offered by UVA Libraries.
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.