LibGuides: Digital Scholarship: Tools

Digital tools change frequently. Below is a brief selection of curated tool lists and the most frequently cited digital scholarship tools.

Gephi
Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analysing large networks graphs. You can use it to explore, analyse, spatialise, filter, cluterize, manipulate and export all types of graphs.

Data Visualization
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GIS - Geographic Information Systems
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Tableau Public
The free, online version of Tableau, a powerful data visualization tool that creates interactive visualizations which can be embedded on a website or shared online. TABLEAU PUBLIC REQUIRES A SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD ONTO YOUR COMPUTER.

Metadata Basics from Dublin Core
Basic description of metadata and one of the most widely used metadata standards, Dublin Core (also called DCMI for Dublin Core Metadata Initiative).
Open Refine
A free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data.

TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval.
Text Encoding Initative
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts. Resources and training events for learning TEI, project information, a bibliography, and software.
Voyant
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts. Click here to see what you can do with Voyant.
Lexos
Open source tool for cleaning up OCR text and creating visualizations.

Python: Resources for Beginners

Humanities Programming
Resources from a course introducing humanities programming through the use of Python for data acquisition, cleaning, and analysis.
Python for Non-Programmers
Python is a popular programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. If you've never programmed before, the tutorials on this page are recommended for you; they don't assume that you have previous experience.