Digital Humanities Resources

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.

Story Maps are web applications that let authors combine maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia including video. The applications are designed to be usable by anyone for myriad projects, including education and outreach, either to the general public or to a specific audience.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.

Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.

Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of data.

Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data visualizations to the web that can be embedded into webpages and blogs, and shared via social media or email.

Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.

Date coverage varies. Fulltext. Collection of critical essays, biographies, timelines and other resources. Includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Selected material from Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

Upload your data to create map-based visualizations

Community-based map allows users to share pictures and text

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license. Integrates with Carto.

This is open-source digital humanities tool allowing for textual annotation and sharing.

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.