Guides: Digital Scholarship Lab: Digital Tools

Suggested Digital Tools

Text Analysis
- Voyant Tools is a free open-source, web-based application for performing text analysis.
Digital Writing/Publishing
- 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.
3D Production
- SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design
Annotations and Collaborative Translations
- From the Page is open-source software for collaborating on texts. The tool supports projects from simple, plain-text transcription through bilingual digital editions.
- Annotation Studio is a suite of tools for collaborative web-based annotation, currently under development by MIT’s HyperStudio.
- Hypothes.is is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site.
Network Analysis
- Palladio is open-source software that allows you to upload data for visualization projects.
- Gephi an open-source network analysis and visualization software package written in Java on the NetBeans platform.
Mapping
- QGIS is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.
- Google Maps
Attribution and Bibliographic tools
- Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials.
Digital Exhibits
- Omeka is a free, open-source content management system for online digital collections.
- WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.