Skip to Main Content

Digital Humanities

An introductory guide to the wide world of the Digital Humanities (DH).

Types of Tools

Below you will find digital humanities tools grouped by type. Many DH projects involve a combination of visual, spatial, temporal, quantitative and qualitative representations. DH projects can involve standalone web sites or mobile apps, but they can also be discrete interactive components that exist alongside longer textual analysis.

This overview page gives top-level resources:

  • Content Management Systems
  • Web Design and Prototyping
  • Coding and Programming Resources
  • Project Management and Workflow
  • Equipment for Use and Checkout

Subpages include resources specific to:

  • Storytelling

    • General tools
    • 3D Modeling, Photogrammetry, AR, and VR
    • Oral Histories and Podcasts
    • Open Image and Multimedia Collections
    • Easy Animations
    • Interactive Timelines and Displays
  • Text Analysis:

    • Text Corpora
    • Text Mining
    • Text Visualization
    • Text and Video Annotation
  • Visualization:

    • Visualization Apps and Tools

Content Management Systems

 Facsimiles of historic handwritten letters superimposed over a black and white line map.

 A screengrab from My Dear Little Nelly, created with Neatline.

Web Design & Prototyping

Coding & Programming Resources

Equipment for Use & Checkout

Two musicians record at a microphone and two screens connected to a keyboard.