Digital Humanities Tools and Resources

A section group within the Association of College & Research Libraries for sharing knowledge about the development of digital scholarship programs and services in libraries.

An online network of DH Centers around the world. The purpose of the network is to “share tools, staff, and expertise.” It publishes the DHCommons listed to the right.

An interdisciplinary group of artists, humanists, and computer scientists who “share ideas, news, tools, research, insights, pedagogy, methods, and projects--including Digital Humanities and other born-digital scholarship.”

A 5-day intensive for researchers, students, and cultural heritage institution learners interested in learning more about the Digital Humanities. UT Austin hosted the HILT intensive in 2017.

An informal conference for students and library professionals of all technical skill levels to learn and build sessions related to the humanities and technology on the spot.

A national grant-giving entity that funds “projects that explore how to harness new technology for humanities research as well as those that study digital culture from a humanistic perspective”

"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."

"Archive Alert is an online platform that allows individuals, entities, groups, and organizations to report on archives and/or other cultural material which promotes cultural heritage... The users may report material they are in possession of, or material threatened by ignorance, negligence, or due to lack of expert human resources."

A list of black digital humanities projects, resources and events, assembled by the Colored Conventions Project.

A mapping project that features complex, layered maps of Harlem from 1915-1930. The project features newspapers, government records, and more.

"This project aims to develop innovative technological and music-analytical methods to gain fresh insight into jazz history"

"The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library are pleased to sponsor the Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web."

A project aimed to “produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public.”

The Programming Historian has a series of tutorials dedicated to teaching humanities scholars about how to use digital tools and programming languages.

A “a virtual museum that maps the geographical and ideological space of Quiapo. It is a space located in history, literature, and memory. We have curated this space for the discerning scholar and the general public.”

A project that explores “illustrations and images of masculinity and fatherhood that circulated in early twentieth-century pro- and anti-suffrage postcards and utilizes a range of digital tools… to explore how feminist digital humanities practices engender new visual historical narratives of masculinity and manhood.”

"A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 'Zero Tolerance Policy' for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed."

"Volume 2 of Torn Apart is a deep and radically new look at the territory and infrastructure of ICE’s financial regime in the USA. This data & visualization intervention peels back layers of culpability behind the humanitarian crisis of 2018."

A collection of plain text corpora and visualization tools intended to “scale humanist scholarship to ‘big data’ by removing several barriers to statistically analyzing digital Early Modern English texts.”

A searchable name database of slave ship records with interactive maps and timelines.

A large collection of rare texts by women authors in the early modern period intended for research and education.