University Library: Digital Humanities: Tools & Technical Resources

ORCID @ FGCU

What is ORCID?

ORCID is an acronym, short for Open Researcher and Contributer ID. It is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2010 to provide a registry of persistent, unique identifiers for researchers and scholars, and a method of linking research-related terms to those identifiers. An ORCID record is managed by you and stays with you throughout your career, no matter what institution you work for or where you live in the world. Register for a free ID HERE.

ORCID @ FGCU

Please contact Kaleena Rivera for more information about the ORCID initiative at FGCU.

Directories for DH Tools

Digital Humanities Tools
Curated by Alan Liu, English professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Online or downloadable tools that are free, free to students, or have generous trial periods without tight usage constraints, watermarks, or other spoilers. Bias toward tools that can be run online or installed on a personal computer without needing an institutional server.
DiRT - Digital Research Tools
The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
TAPoR 3
Housed at the University of Alberta, TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval.

Geographic/Spatial Analysis Tools

CARTO
CARTO is an open, powerful, and intuitive platform for discovering and predicting the key insights underlying the location data in our world.
Neatline
Allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.
ArcGIS StoryMaps
Combine text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content to tell a story.

Online Publishing Tools

Omeka
Omeka.net is web-publishing platform that allows anyone with an account to create or collaborate on a website to display collections and build digital exhibitions. No technical skills or special server requirements are necessary. Sign up, and start sharing.
Open Journal Systems
A multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.
WordPress
An open source platform for creating websites and blogs.

Text Analysis Tools

Juxta Commons
Juxta is a tool that allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work.
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.
Voyant Tools
A web-based text analysis and reading environment. Includes a plethora of tools for analyzing texts, including bubblelines, word clouds, and type frequencies chart.

Visualization Tools

Google Fusion Tables
Google Fusion Tables is a fairly simple way to go from spreadsheet to data visualization. Find a useful tutorial for Google Fusion Tables here: http://miriamposner.com/blog/google-fusion-table-basics-with-ius-cushman-collection/.
Palladio
A web-based visualization tool for complex, structured humanities data. Find a useful tutorial for Palladio here: http://miriamposner.com/blog/getting-started-with-palladio/.
TimelineJS
TimelineJS is 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.

Network Analysis Tools

D3.js
A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform
Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.

Digital Humanities