LibGuides: Digital Humanities: Tools

Getting started

DiRT | Digital Research Tools
DiRT lists digital research tools for scholarly use, making it easy to find and compare resources based on what you want to do, on the type of data you have, or by category and tag.
The Programming Historian
The Programming Historian offers novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

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DH Toychest | Digital Humanities tools [wiki]
Lists resources for practical work in the digital humanities. Curated by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara, a selective list of free tools or tools with generous trial periods. Explore Guides to Digital Humanities; Tutorials; Tools; Examples; amd Data Collections & Datasets
Humanities 3.0: tooling up for Digital Humanities [online repository]
This is a repository of essays designed to provide an introduction to key topics in the digital humanities. This web site is intended to provide a gateway for scholars with minimal exposure to digital methodology but who are interested in exploring the vast potential of the field of digital humanities.
Software Carpentry [website]
Software Carpentry is a volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to teaching researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain.
Exploratory programming for the arts and humanities [book]
Introduction to programming for researchers in the arts/humanities. Explores the potential to create new works and probe data for new ideas.
The Javascripting English major
A 15-session course that teaches humanities undergraduates how to write their own web-based project using JavaScript.

Further tools in this guide

GIS & mapping
Tools for creating maps and working with geo-spatial data and analysis
Text mining & analysis
Analyse and manipulate text.
Visualisation
Visualise your humanities data in a multitude of different ways
Curation & preservation
Select, collect & store, group, anthologise, and display & preserve digital images, objects and data.
Social media
Explore tools for gathering and analysing social media data.

We want your feedback!

This guide continues to evolve, and we really welcome your feedback so we can continue to improve it. Please let us know if you find:

Incorrect or irrelevant details, tools that don't work, dead links or otherwise unhelpful information
Helpful details, tools, links or information that you think need to be on the guide, but aren't currently.

We'd also love to hear from you if you want to have your project featured on the guide, or would like to be profiled on the Connect&Collaborate@Otago page. Email Alexander Ritchie, with any comments or suggestions on how we can improve it.

Viva Digital Humanities!