Library: Digital Humanities: DH Platforms, Tools, & Apps

Archiving & Exhibiting Platforms

ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub)
ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) is a research and education service that helps users easily build, access, and analyze digital collections computationally at scale. With ARCH’s intuitive interface, users can build custom research collections relevant to a wide range of subjects, generate and access research-ready datasets from collections, and analyze those datasets. In line with best practices in reproducibility, ARCH supports open publication and preservation of user-generated datasets. ARCH is a key asset to research, classroom instruction, and collection curation.

Mukurtu
Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage.
Omeka
Omeka is an open source online content management system that you or a team can use to collect and exhibit digital materials. Check out the Omeka tab above for more information!
Scalar
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. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.
Wax
Wax is a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility. Our underlying technology is made to learn and to teach, and can produce beautifully rendered, high-quality image collections and scholarly exhibits.

AntConc
A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.
Conifer
A web archiving service that creates an interactive copy of any web page that you browse, including content revealed by your interactions such as playing video and audio, scrolling, clicking buttons, and so forth.
Documenting the Now
Documenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content.
Lenses
Lenses allow you to search and visualize the content of a Scalar project.
Palladio
A web-based tool for visualizing complex historical data with ease using maps, network graphs, and other forms of reading and analyzing data.
StoryMapJS
A free tool to help you tell location-based stories on the web that can include images, videos, text, and more.
Tableau
A free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online.
TimelineJS
An open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet.
Voyant
If the text you are working with is computer-readable, you can upload or cut and paste it into this free tool. Voyant will analyze that text as data, quickly computing and visualizing trends in the words and phrases.