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Awesome Digital Humanities

Software for humanities scholars using quantitative or computational methods.

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Bibliography and Sources Management

JabRef

Open source bibliography reference manager.

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Tropy

Research Photo Management.

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Zotero

Free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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Corpus linguistics

AntConc

A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.

CorpusExplorer v2.0

Software for corpus linguists and text/data mining enthusiasts. The CorpusExplorer combines over 45 interactive visualizations under an user-friendly interface. Routine tasks such as text acquisition, cleaning or tagging are completely automated. The simple interface supports the use in university…

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TXM

The project brings together open-source Textometry software developments to set up a modular platform called TXM, in synergy with existing corpus technologies (Unicode, XML, TEI, NLP tools, CQP, R).

Data Collection

Data Commons

Aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful.

OpenArchive

Making it easy to store, share, and amplify your mobile media while protecting your identity.

Open EU Data Portal

European Union open data.

Social Feed Manager

Open source software that harvests social media data and web resources from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo.

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Trafilatura

Open source software to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output in multiple formats. Usable with Python, R and on the command-line.

Transkribus

Transcribe. Collaborate. Share and benefit from cutting edge research in Handwritten Text Recognition!

Textgrid

Open source tools and services support humanistic scholars during the entire process of research, especially in digital scholarly editing.

Webrecorder

Web archiving service to save web pages.

Data Analysis

Allmaps

Curating, georeferencing and exploring for IIIF maps.

Breve

Visualize and edit tabular data.

Data Pen

Framework for humanities researchers to access, explore, and manipulate multidimensional historical data.

DocFetcher

Open Source desktop search application.

IntellyWeave

Open-source platform for humanities research featuring AI-powered entity extraction (persons, organizations, locations, dates, events), semantic search across document collections, geospatial visualization for historical events, and archive research agents with 30+ curated international sources.

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Leipzig Corpus Miner (LCM)

The LCM project pursues the development of an integrated research environment for the analysis of structured and unstructured data in a 'Software as a Service' architecture (SaaS). The research environment addresses requirements for the quantitative evaluation of large amounts of text data (e.g. 3…

Lexos

Online tool for text analysis.

Mallet

Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.

Open Semantic Search

Free Software for your own Search Engine, Explorer for Discovery of large document collections, Media Monitoring, Text Analytics, Document Analysis & Text Mining platform based on Apache Solr or Elasticsearch open-source enterprise-search and Open Standards for Linked Data, Semantic Web & Linked…

renoir

Python package for teaching computational color theory through art history. Extracts and analyzes artist-specific works from WikiArt with color palette extraction, harmony detection, and 17 progressive Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities education.

Stylo

R package for stylometric analyses.

TinEye

Search by image or image section and find where that image appears online.

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Voyant

Reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

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YouTube Metadata

It grabs singular details about a video and its uploader, playlist and its creator, or channel.

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Data Extraction and Conversion

ImageMagick

Image conversion tool.

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MuPDF

PDF viewer and converter.

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OCRmyPDF

OCR toolkit.

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Poppler

PDF toolkit.

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QPDF

PDF toolkit.

Data Annotation

Annotation Studio

Suite of tools for collaborative web-based annotation, developed by MIT's HyperStudio.

CATMA

Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis.

Glycerine

Provides a suite of IIIF image annotation tools and end-to-end workflows for researchers, curators and students to collaborate on projects across repositories and publish research ouputs.

Recogito

Semantic Annotation for images and texts.

DH Centers

ACDH-DH

Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities.

CDH Princeton

Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University.

dhelta UNIL-EPFL

Joint association of EPFL and UNIL fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and student integration in Digital Humanities.

Digital Humanities Bern

It explores different topics, in the context of digital text and image analysis, digital edition, and reflection on the impact of digital methods on the humanities.

Digital Humanities Lab - Universität Basel

An interdisciplinary institution of the University of Basel.

HDLab

Humanities + Design a Research Lab at Stanford University.

Humanités numériques Unversity of Geneva

The aim of the Chair is to teach the use of digital technology to all human sciences, according to the methods and issues specific to the Humanities.

Ladhul dhCenter

Laboratoire de cultures et humanités digitales de l'Université de Lausanne.

Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

Research on new digital methods and tools for historical research and teaching.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Creators of Zotero and other amazing open-source software tools for historians.

Document Management and Processing

Giles Ecosystem

A distributed system based on Apache Kafka that allows users to upload documents for text and image extraction. It automatically performs OCR on uploaded images and extracts images and embedded texts from pdf files. The system can be easily scaled to accommodate higher workloads.

Journals

Computational Humanities Research

Open access, peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press; founded in 2024.

Current Research in Digital History

Annual open-access, peer-reviewed publication of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Journal of Cultural Analytics

Open-access, peer-reviewed publication for the computational study of cultural artifacts with a primary in the humanities and computational humanities. Published by McGill from 2016-2025; since 2026, published by the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University.

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing data papers that describe humanities research objects, datasets, and techniques with high potential for reuse. Published by Ubiquity Press since 2015.

Organizations and Research Infrastructures

ACH

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities. We support and disseminate research and cultivate a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities.

ADHO

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes and supports digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training.

CHAIN

Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks.

CHCI

Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Currently it has a membership of more than 250 organizations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Pacific Rim. Our members include humanities centers at small, medium, and large colleges and universities, community colleges, independent…

centerNet

An international network of digital humanities centers.

CLARIN

Stands for "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure". It is a research infrastructure that was initiated from the vision that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment for the support of…

DARIAH

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member…

DHCH

Interdisciplinary research in the digital humanities in Switzerland.

Digital History Network Switzerland

Network of digital historians in academia and GLAM institutions in Switzerland with a fairly active mailing list.

Digital Humanities Now

An experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web.

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)

The EHRI Portal enables online access to information about Holocaust sources, no matter where they are located. It also promotes innovative tools that advance the digital transformation of Holocaust research.

European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS)

It supports research on heritage interpretation, preservation, documentation and management.

Other Resources

Awesome Digital History

A curated list of awesome things related to digital history.

Awesome IIIF

A curated list of awesome resources related to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

Awesome OCR

This list contains links to great software tools and libraries and literature related to Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

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Awesome Scientific Writing

A curated list of awesome tools, demos and resources to go beyond LaTeX.

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Awesome Web Archiving

Resources to archive the web.

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DH Toychest

Guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities by researchers, teachers, and students. Curated by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Digital Textuality Resource Pages

Inspired by Alan Liu's ToyChest, Kimberly Knight and her students at U. Texas (Dallas) keep in this repository a list of tools for text production, visualization, still image work, sound work, and video and animation; includes some student reviews of tools.

Duke University's DH Tools catalog

This list includes tools that Duke supports and tools that have been used by Duke digital projects. Some of the tools are made specifically for DH and others that can be re-purposed quite effectively for Humanities research.

FID Romanistik

Curated list of tools and resources for digital humanists in German.

GLAMS Workbench

A collection of tools, tutorials, examples, and hacks to help you work with data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (the GLAM sector). The primary focus is Australia and New Zealand, but new collections are being added all the time.

Social Sciences & Humanities Open Marketplace

A discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

TAPoR 3

TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval. It was redesigned in order to integrate the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) directory.

Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (TaDiRAH)

This taxonomy has been developed for use by community-driven sites and projects that aim to structure information relevant to digital humanities and make it more easily discoverable. The taxonomy is expected to be particularly useful to endeavors aiming to collect information on digital humanities…

Platforms

DHSlack

Slack channels for digital humanities scholars.

HSS Digital

Digital scholarship in the history of science initiative.

Perspectives on History

The newsmagazine of the American Historical Association.

wethink.hypotheses.org

Collaborative Digital History.

Wikipedia

Digital history is the use of digital media to further historical analysis, presentation, and research.

Publishing

CollectionBuilder

Open source tool for creating digital collection and exhibition websites based on metadata and powered by modern static web technology.

Manifold

Scholarly publishing and collaborative and social reading platform.

Omeka

Open-source web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.

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Wax

Jekyll based framework for minimal exhibitions with IIIF.

Tool Building and Rapid Prototyping

JupyterHub Workspace

The JupyterHub Workspace aims to be a collaborative programming and code-sharing platform. It provides access to browser-based Jupyter Notebooks, which integrate code with explanatory text, and are already used as a new publishing form. Data can be shared using the Nextcloud backend. A single…

Twitter

Digital History by @moritzmaehr

List of Digital History people by Moritz Mähr.

Digital Humanities by @GrandjeanMartin

List of Digital Humanities people by Martin Grandjean.

Digital Humanities by @normanlippert

List of Digital Humanities people by Norman Lippert.

Digital Humanities by @wpippich

List of Digital Humanities people by Waltraud von Pippich.

Digital Humanities Women by @amandafrench

List of Digital Humanities women by Amanda French.

User Guides and Training Materials

#dariahTeach

An open-source, multilingual, community-driven platform for high-quality teaching and training materials for the digital arts and humanities.

DARIAH-CAMPUS

A discovery framework and hosting platform for DARIAH learning resources.

DH Tools for Beginners

A collection of tutorials about DH tools aiming at digital humanities researchers.

Digital Editions Course

The course covers the the whole process of creating a digital edition, from selecting a text right through to publication.

Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook

Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities.

Digital Humanities Theories and Practice

Balancing practical guidance on tools and methodologies with modes for entering into the research of participants, the course will foster experimentation with and critical exploration of digital scholarship coupled with humanistic inquiry.

forText

Collection of german tutorials for the interpretation and visualization of literature.

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

How to teach digital literacy.

Humanities Data Analysis

A practical guide to data-intensive humanities research using the Python programming language.

Intro Cultural Analytics

Analyze cultural artifacts with Python.

Introduction to Digital Humanities (Bern)

Open course materials of the University of Bern that cover data modeling, Linked Open Data, data publication, text, network and geospatial analysis, machine learning, and sustainability. No prior programming knowledge is required.

Jupyter Notebooks for Digital Humanities

A diverse range of Jupyter notebooks, comprising research materials, course content, Python tutorials, and specific analysis tools.

Missing Semester

Useful tools that are not taught in class.

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New Languages for NLP

Learn how to annotate linguistic data and train statistical language models using cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) tools.

The Programming Historian

Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.

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Visualization

Bertin.js

JavaScript library for visualizing geospatial data and make thematic maps for the web.

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DARIAH-DE Geo-Browser

Create visualizations with geotagges data.

Gephi

Leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks.

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Khartis

A tool for easy creation of thematic maps in 3 steps from CSV data.

Palladio

Visualize complex historical data with ease.

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RAWGraphs

Open source, web-based tool for the visualization of complex data.

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StorylineJS

Tell the story behind the numbers.

StorymapJS

Maps that tell stories.

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TimelineJS

Easy-to-make, beautiful timelines.

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Vistorian.online

Interactive Visualizations for Dynamic and Multivariate Networks.

Zotero Groups

Cultural AI

A collaborative bibliography on the intersection of cultural heritage and artificial intelligence.

DH Unibe

A collaborative bibliography on Digital Humanities from the University of Bern.

Doing Digital Humanities - A DARIAH Bibliography

A comprehensive bibliography on Digital Humanities methods and practices.

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Awesome OpenClaw Skills

VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills

The awesome collection of OpenClaw skills. 5,400+ skills filtered and categorized from the official OpenClaw Skills Registry.🦞

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Awesome DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Plugin

awesome-dsh-plugin/awesome-dsh-plugin

A curated list of plugins for DeepSeek Harness (dsh) · DeepSeek Harness 插件精选列表

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Awesome Guidelines

Kristories/awesome-guidelines

Programming style, best practices, and coding conventions.

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Awesome

sindresorhus/awesome

😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chance to catch up with the existing ones]

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Awesome Prompts

ai-boost/awesome-prompts

Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers.

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Awesome README

matiassingers/awesome-readme

A curated list of awesome READMEs

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