Subject Guides: Digital Humanities: DH Tools

Digital Humanities: DH Tools

An introduction to the field of digital humanities (DH) and resources for finding tools and projects

GVSU Resources

GVSU has tools and services to offer you too for your DH research:

GVSU Libraries and Archives
Knowledge Market and Data Inquiry Lab
Statistical Consulting Center (SCC)
Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (OURS)
Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence (CSCE)
Faculty Teaching and Learning Center and Instructional Design for eLearning (IDeL)

Find Tools By Intent

Find Tools by Project Type

Looking for digital research tools for your next DH project? Many of the most currently, commonly-used tools and projects can be classified in the following ways:

Geospatial Mapping and Modeling
Data Visualization
Text Mining and Analysis
Digital Publishing and Data Sharing
Coding and Mark-up
Digitization and Digital Archiving

See below for recommended tools to start with in each of these categories, or browse through suites of tools such as Digital Humanities Toy Chest, DH Press, and TAPoR.

Recommended Tools to Start With

GPS Visualizer
GPS Visualizer is a free, easy to use, online tool for building maps. What Could You Use It For? Planning a customized trip itinerary to share, projects describing historical travel routes.
MindMup
MindMup is a free, cloud tool that allows you to create mind maps with an online canvas to visualize data. What Could You Use It For? Plotting out research ideas, projects showing social networks or connections
Voyant
Voyant is a free, online tool that's easy to use - works with text that you copy and paste, creating word charts and graphs automatically. What Could You Use It For? Finding word frequencies in a book, projects analyzing language patterns in literature
FigShare
FigShare is a free tool for sharing and preserving research online. What Could You Use It For? Communicating data to far-away collaborator, projects that could inspire further work as open-source
Codecademy
Codecademy is a source for free, easy tutorials and lessons on how to code. What Could You Use It For? Teaching yourself the basics of computer programming, projects that involve coding or database building
Omeka
Omeka is a free tool you can learn quickly to build digital archives. What Could You Use It For? Creating a professional-looking exhibit for your research, projects involving collections for display like art history