Awesome Digital Humanities
A curated, categorized collection of the best tools, datasets, journals, and communities for Digital Humanities research. Maintained and updated regularly.
Text Analysis & NLP Tools
Software for computational text analysis, topic modeling, and natural language processing.
Voyant Tools
Web-based text analysis environment for digital reading. Supports word clouds, trends, contexts, and more.
AntConc
Free concordance program for corpus linguistics. KWIC, word lists, n-grams, and collocates.
MALLET
Java-based topic modeling toolkit. The standard for LDA in humanities research.
spaCy
Industrial-strength NLP library in Python. NER, POS tagging, dependency parsing.
NLTK
Python platform for working with human language data. Tokenization, stemming, classification.
Stanford NLP
Java toolkit for NLP: NER, sentiment, coreference resolution, dependency parsing.
Stanza
Python NLP library supporting 60+ languages. Built on PyTorch.
Gensim
Topic modeling and document similarity. Word2Vec, Doc2Vec, FastText implementations.
BookNLP
NLP pipeline specifically designed for processing long literary texts.
Textalyser
Online text analysis tool for readability, word frequency, and lexical density.
Visualization & Mapping
Tools for creating visual representations of humanities data.
Gephi
Open-source network analysis and visualization. Essential for social network analysis in DH.
Palladio
Stanford tool for multi-dimensional data visualization. Maps, timelines, network graphs.
StoryMapJS
Free tool to tell stories with maps. Ideal for literary geography projects.
TimelineJS
Open-source tool for creating interactive timelines from spreadsheet data.
Tableau Public
Free data visualization platform. Dashboards, charts, and interactive visualizations.
Leaflet
JavaScript library for interactive maps. Lightweight and mobile-friendly.
RAWGraphs
Open-source framework for custom data visualizations. Bridge between spreadsheets and vector graphics.
Corpora & Datasets
Open literary corpora, text archives, and datasets for humanities research.
Project Gutenberg
70,000+ free eBooks. The foundational corpus for computational literary studies.
HathiTrust Digital Library
17+ million digitized items from major research libraries. Extracted features dataset available.
Internet Archive
Digital library with millions of books, audio, video, and web pages.
EEBO-TCP
Early English Books Online — 60,000+ texts from 1475–1700.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Digital texts of all Shakespeare's works with scholarly annotations.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
1 billion words of American English. The most widely used corpus of English.
Oxford Text Archive
Thousands of literary and linguistic resources in many languages.
Women Writers Project
Full-text collection of women's writing in English, 1526–1850.
Digital Editions & Annotation
Tools for creating scholarly digital editions and annotating texts.
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
XML standard for digital text encoding. The backbone of digital scholarly editions.
Hypothes.is
Open annotation layer for the web. Collaborative annotation for scholarly reading.
Recogito
Semantic annotation tool for texts, images, and maps. Named entity annotation.
FromThePage
Collaborative transcription platform for manuscripts and documents.
eScriptorium
Open-source platform for handwritten text recognition (HTR) with Kraken engine.
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)
Standard for serving and annotating high-resolution images of cultural heritage materials.
Journals & Publications
Peer-reviewed journals, open-access publications, and conference proceedings.
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH)
Oxford University Press. The leading DH journal (formerly Literary and Linguistic Computing).
Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ)
Open-access, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of DH.
Journal of Cultural Analytics
Computational approaches to the study of culture. Open access.
Debates in Digital Humanities
Open-access book series from University of Minnesota Press.
Computational Linguistics
MIT Press journal covering NLP and computational approaches to language.
Disability Studies Quarterly
Open-access journal of the Society for Disability Studies.
Digital Humanities Now
Experimental publication highlighting DH scholarship through peer selection.
Communities & Organizations
Professional organizations, networks, and communities for DH scholars.
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
Umbrella organization for DH worldwide. Organizes the annual DH conference.
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
US-based DH professional organization. Part of ADHO.
EADH (European Association for Digital Humanities)
European DH organization. Co-organizes major DH conferences.
The Programming Historian
Open-access, peer-reviewed tutorials for digital humanities methods and tools.
HASTAC
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory.
DH Slack
Community Slack workspace for DH scholars. Sign up via the form.
Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH)
ADHO SIG promoting communication and collaboration among DH researchers worldwide.
Learning & Tutorials
Courses, tutorials, and educational resources for learning DH methods.
The Programming Historian Lessons
100+ peer-reviewed tutorials on DH methods: Python, R, text mining, GIS, and more.
DARIAH Teach
Open-source, multilingual teaching materials for DH.
Digital Humanities Coursera
Introduction to Digital Humanities from the University of Copenhagen.
Text Analysis with Python for Social Scientists
Tutorial materials for text analysis methods with Python.
Constellate
ITHAKA/JSTOR platform for learning and performing text analysis on scholarly literature.
DH Tools Wiki
Digital Research Tools directory — searchable database of DH tools and resources.
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