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DataBank
NYC Open Data
StreetEasy Housing Data
AWS Data Exchange
Chicago Data Portal
Information is Beautiful Listings
TidyTuesday GitHub Repository
TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project
Data is Plural Structured Archive
Vega Datasets
Common repository for example datasets used by Vega-related projects
Awesome Public Datasets
A topic-centric list of HQ open datasets
Open Data Stack Exchange
Investigative Reporters and Editors Data Resources
Buzzfeed News Data GitHub Repository
An index of all Buzzfeed News open-source data, analysis, libraries, tools, and guides
LA Data Desk GitHub Repository
All of LA Times computational notebooks
FiveThirtyEight Data GitHub Repository
Data and code behind the articles and graphics at FiveThirtyEight
The Pudding Data GitHub Repository
Data sets created for stories on The Pudding, open to the public.
Data Portals
Data DOT World
Google Dataset Search
Kaggle Datasets
IPUMS Census & Survey Data
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space
History Pin
Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories
Leaflet JS
Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
StoryMap KnightLab
StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events
Esri Services
Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping
Neatline
Neatline is what you get when you cross archives and artifacts with timelines, modern and historical maps, and an appreciation for the interpretive aims of humanities scholarship
Carto
Modern spatial analytics ‍built for the cloud. Analyze, visualize, and develop with spatial data at limitless scale
Kepler.gl
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets
Igraph
igraph is a collection of network analysis tools with the emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use. It’s open source and can be programmed in R, Python, Mathematica, and C/C++
CytoScape
Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data
VosViewer
VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks
Gephi
Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free
Open Frameworks
openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.
Pixjjs
Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer
Processing
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology
p5js
p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else
Flourish
Explore and explain your data with beautiful visualizations and stories. Publish, present or download. No need to code or install software.
High Charts
We make it easy for developers to create charts and dashboards for web and mobile platforms. For Javascript, Angular, React, VueJS, iOS, R, .NET, Python, and more
Visualizing Data
Deck.gl
deck.gl is a GPU-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets
Vega
With Vega, you can describe the visual appearance and interactive behavior of a visualization in a JSON format, and generate web-based views using Canvas or SVG
KnightLab Storytelling Toolkits
We build easy-to-use tools that can help you tell better stories
Tiki Toki
Create beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web. The perfect timeline maker for company history timelines and school projects
Renpy
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices
Podia
Framer
Retool
Glide
SquareSpace
WordPress
Wix
Omeka
Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits
Replit
Replit is an AI-driven software creation platform where everyone can build, share, and ship software fast
Code Sandbox
CodeSandbox gives you 24/7 collaborative cloud development environments (CDEs) that resume in 2 seconds
Code Pen
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration
Glitch
Our Hello apps are built with best practices in mind and sample code you can remix to make your own. Or grab a minimal template and build from a blank slate
Apify
Apify is the platform where developers build, deploy, and publish web scraping, data extraction, and web automation tools
Conifer
Conifer is a web archiving service that creates an interactive copy of any web page that you browse, including content revealed by your interactions such as playing video and audio, scrolling, clicking buttons, and so forth
Doc Now Toolkit
Documenting the Now develops open source tools and community-centered practices that support the ethical collection, use, and preservation of publicly available content shared on web and social media
Tropy
Take control of your research photos with Tropy, a tool that shortens the path from finding archival sources to writing about them. Spend more time using your research photos, and less time hunting for them
Programming Historian
All tutorials at Programming Historian are rigorously peer reviewed, guided through the review process by one of our editors
Spatial Humanities Workshop
Northwestern DH Example Projects
SDSU DH Example Projects
Lehigh DH Example Projects
Stanford DH Example Projects
Flowing Data
Visualize your data like an expert with hundreds of practical how-tos for presentation, analysis, and understanding
The Pudding
The Puddingi s a digital publication that creates visual essays with data
Data Sketch
Observable D3
Information is Beautiful
Personal Website
Visualizing Data Resources
National Endowment for the Humanities
Afred P. Sloan Foundation
Institute of Musuem and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Digital Scholar Toolkits
Designed by historians, our software and services make research, publishing, and cultural heritage work possible
Greenhouse Studio
Grounded in the humanities, we use art and technology to expand the boundaries of scholarship and learning
Elicit
Analyze research papers at superhuman speed. Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.
Research Rabbit
We’re rethinking everything: literature search, alerts, and more
A List Funding for Individuals
Michigan Humanities Grants
DH Registry
A list of library groups that offer digital humanities and digital scholarship services
American Philosophical Society DH Fellowships
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the American Philosophical Society invites applications for Digital Humanities Fellowships at the American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum. These fellowships, for up to 2 months, are open to scholars at all stages of their careers,
DH Journals, Presses and Conferences
DH Publications and Conferences
Oxford DH Summer School
Affinity
Award-winning photo editing, graphic design and page layout software for Mac, Windows & iPad.
Voyant
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts
Unaccompanied Child Migrants Data From NYT
Data from the U.S. Department of Human Health and Services on children who have migrated to the United States without an adult
A List of Popular CMSs
Hugo
Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again
Publii
With Publii, the most intuitive static site CMS, you can create a beautiful, safe, and privacy-friendly website quickly and easily; perfect for anyone who wants a fast, secure website in a flash
Ghost
Open source independent technology for modern publishing
Mukurtu
The free, mobile, and open source platform built with Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage
Drupal
Drupal powers one in 40 websites in the world including sites from Tesla, Pfizer and NBC and is Open source
Scalar
Born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing that’s as easy as blogging
eScholarship
eScholarship is an open access publishing platform and the institutional repository for the UC system
Figshare Data Repository
A home for papers, FAIR data and non-traditional research outputs that is easy to use and ready now
Dryad Data Repository
We make it easier to share, find, use, and cite data, and are ready-made for emerging data-sharing requirements
Harvard Dataverse Data Repository
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data
Open Science Framework
OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration
Zenodo
Built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in Open Science
ICPSR Data Repository
ICPSR is research science data and resources on topics like social media, politics, economics, social sciences, government, GIS, & more
Orange
Orange is a component-based data mining software. It includes a range of data visualization, exploration, preprocessing and modeling techniques. It can be used through a nice and intuitive user interface or, for more advanced users, as a module for the Python programming language
LIWC
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is the gold standard in software for analyzing word use. It can be used to study a single individual, groups of people over time, or all of social media.
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship
The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers recent Ph.D. graduates the chance to develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities
Data to Viz
From Data to Viz leads you to the most appropriate graph for your data. It links to the code to build it and lists common caveats you should avoid
Python Graph Gallery
The Python Graph Gallery is a collection of hundreds of charts made with Python
Datawrapper
Datawrapper lets you show your data as beautiful charts, maps or tables with a few clicks
Google Dataset Search
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web
Ticha
Ticha allows users to access and explore many interlinked layers of texts from a corpus of Colonial Valley Zapotec manuscripts and printed books, including images of the original documents, transcriptions, translations, and linguistic analysis, including morphological interlinearization
Dig Podcast
Dig: A History Podcast is a narrative-driven, open access, and accessible digital history project bridging the worlds of popular and academic history with an explicitly feminist perspective
Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks
Calisphere
Your gateway to California’s remarkable digital collections. Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 49,882,610 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
NYPL Digital Collections
Explore 877,348 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
Critical Commons
Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts
Europeana
Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
Awesome Network Analysis Data
A curated list of awesome network analysis resources
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
The Carpentries
We teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide
US and Canada DS Funding List
Programming for Humanists
Programming4Humanists (P4H) is a continuing education program designed to introduce participants to methodologies, coding, and programming languages associated with the Digital Humanities (DH). P4H courses are taught by CoDHR staff and TAMU faculty during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Course participants have the option to attend class synchronously via Zoom or review class recordings on their own time
How to Write and Submit Federal Grant Applications
It is particularly designed for individuals and organizations who are not affiliated with a higher education institution and/or do not have previous experience applying for a federal grant. This workshop includes practical advice to help you craft your grant application. The presenters also share their insights into the complex process of submitting an application through the Grants.gov portal
Library Juice Academy
Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development courses for librarians, archivists, and other staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
DHSI is an ideal environment for discussing, learning, and building skills in the digital humanities. Join us for intensive seminars, colloquium presentations, affiliated events, and much more
Commons in A Box
Commons In A Box (CBOX) takes the complexity out of creating an online space, or digital commons, for your community. Our free open-source software provides an infrastructure that encourages discussion, collaboration, and sharing.
Digital Scholarship Fellowship from University of Victoria
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria is offering Digital Scholarship Fellowships during the academic year. Digital Scholarship Fellowships support graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, new and visiting scholars at UVic, as well as staff, faculty, and librarians making substantial use of digital and/or social knowledge creation methods to do humanities or interdisciplinary research.
Wikidot
It's simply a place to build wiki-based websites. Use it to publish content, share your documents, collaborate with friends or coworkers, create a place for your community
Jane Addams Papers Project Guide
Details on how a digital scholarship project is created
Fanny Fern Archive
Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger explores one of the most successful periods in the career of Fanny Fern, who in the mid-nineteenth century became the highest-paid newspaper columnist in the United States
The Walt Whitman Archive
The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman's vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman, America's most influential poet and a writer of global renown, is the most challenging of all American authors in terms of the textual difficulties his work presents
DH Training Network
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with network mapping, spatial analysis, multimedia storytelling, innovative contextualization, and the distant reading of massive datasets.
eLaboratories
eLaboratories—or eLabs—is an emergent space for cultivating connections, conversations, and collaborations between a diverse community of practitioners engaged in editing, recovery, or other research activities related to making source materials accessible, discoverable, or (re)imaginable. Through our courses, forums, events, and more, practitioners can share their passions, grow their expertise, and shape the discourse of a vibrant, innovative, and inclusive community
Center for Digital Editing
The CDE collaborates with a variety of documentary editing and digital humanities projects. Despite the diversity of content, methodologies, and publication outputs, all projects share the goal of creating broad accessibility, ensuring users can discover and explore new content
Humanities for All
Humanities for All showcases over 2,000 examples of publicly engaged humanities work at colleges and universities across the United States
Glasp
Glasp is a PDF & Web highlighter that helps you collect and organize your favorite quotes and thoughts from the web
Hathitrust
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, and more. HathiTrust Research Center Analytics Supporting large-scale text analysis of the HathiTrust Digital Library for educational and non-profit research
Collection Builder
CollectionBuilder is an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web technology
Media CMS
Modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS
Blender
Get the world’s best 3D CG technology in the hands of artists as free/open source software
NEH: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities
It supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology
NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
It supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices
It is a grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada
Recordings at Risk
It is a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting.
Responsible Datasets in Context
We host datasets that are paired with rich documentation, data essays, and teaching resources, all of which draw on context and humanities perspectives and methods. We provide models for responsible data curation, documentation, story-telling, and analysis
COVE
COVE operates as a two-fold platform: Studio, where instructors can create anthologies of primary works that can then be made available for multimedia student annotation, and Editions, which hosts published and private editions, galleries, maps, and timelines, and facilitates peer review.
Aeon Timeline
We help you manage complex stories, so you can present and write with confidence.
Pressbooks
Whether you’re an author looking to launch your next book or an educational institution looking to improve student success, Pressbooks can help you create, adapt, and share accessible high-quality digital content with ease.
NodeXL
No programming needed. Web-based reports. Dive into advanced social network analysis To Gain comprehensive insights effortlessly
Survey Transfer
A web-based powerhouse for drone mappers, surveyors, and 3D professionals, enabling seamless collaboration, secure file sharing, and rendering massive maps & 3D assets in real-time for interactive.
Nira
Nira is a collaborative platform for rendering massive 3D models in real time, enabling interactive, web-based visualization and inspection on any device, including smartphones and tablets.
Open Heritage 3D
An Online Repository for Primary 3D Cultural Heritage Data.
Industry Documents Library
A portal to millions of documents created by industries that influence public health, hosted by the UCSF Library.
Morphosource
Find, view, and download 3D data representing the world's natural history, cultural heritage, and scientific collections.
Carbon Made
Made for all creatives who want an easy, personalized way to launch their portfolio.
PapersGPT
Support ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude and Gemini, Llama3.2, Phi-3.5, Gemma, Mistral in Zotero are free on your Mac. Secure for your data. All are stored locally, not uploaded to the Cloud. Effectively offer you insight without leaving Zotero.
Recogito
Semantic Annotation without the pointy brackets. Work on texts and images. Identify and mark named entities. Use your data in other tools or connect to other data on the Web. Without the need to learn code.
Mirado
Open-source, web based, multi-window image viewing platform with the ability to zoom, display, compare and annotate images from around the world. Mirador has been optimized to display resources from repositories that support the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) API's. Mirador provides several workspaces for comparing image-based resources, suitable for use in both cultural heritage and research settings.
Transkribus
Transkribus enables you to automatically recognize and transcribe text easily, edit seamlessly, collaborate effortlessly, and even train your custom AI for digitizing and interpreting historical documents of any form.
The Quill Project
Developing cutting-edge tools to help teachers, lawyers and researchers interpret and teach key historical texts.
Computer Vision Tools from Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group
Computer vision tools developed by Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group in collaboration with researchers in the humanities working in fields including book and art history, film, music and photography.
Aviary Platform
Video and Audio Publishing Purpose Built for Libraries, Archives and Oral Histories.
DMPTool
With a free, community-supported service that makes it easier to create machine-actionable data management and sharing plans (DMSPs) that meet funder requirements and follow open science best practice.
SMILE
SMILE empowers researchers to search content from multiple social media platforms all at once. Find tweets, individual user accounts, and comments that match specific criteria, and analyze content with just a few clicks. Both live and historical data are available for search.
Softr
Kunstmatrix
KUNSTMATRIX enables you to create beautiful 3D showcases of your art to impress art lovers and collectors.
Artsteps
Shape the Metaverse with your 3D virtual reality stories
V21ArtSpace
3D virtual exhibit service with customization services in 3D digitization, 3D printing and CGI.
ArtPlacer
All-in-one platform designed for artists, galleries, art dealers, and curators that has 3D virtual exhibit, room mock up, and website integration services
Sway
Create visually striking newsletters, presentations, and documentation in minutes
Digirati
Teams of strategists, designers and engineers provide consultancy services and software products for cultural heritage institutions informed by decades of collective sector experience.
IIIF Cloud Services
From the Page
FromThePage is a crowdsourcing platform for archives and libraries where volunteers transcribe, index, and describe historic documents
Performant
We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.
Quire
Quire is an open-source multiformat publishing tool designed for longevity, discoverability, and scholarship. Using a single set of plain text files, Quire creates books as authoritative and enduring as print and as vibrant and feature-rich as the web—all without paying a fee or maintaining a complicated server.
MapBox
AI-powered location technology for automakers, mobile app developers, and logistics services
BrowserTrix
High-fidelity crawling, innovative quality assurance, and collaborative organization empower you to preserve, curate, and share archived web content with confidence
WebRecorder
Webrecorder provides open source solutions for everyone to archive the complex, interactive Web.
Corpora
Corpora is Digital Humanities (DH) infrastructure—it's intended to be run by academic centers, libraries, or project teams, and its purpose is to greatly accelerate the development of DH projects by serving as a database, a REST API, a data collection/curation interface, and a Python-powered asynchronous task queue all wrapped into one.
Reduct
Reduct is a fully online collaborative video editor, a stunningly accurate transcription service, with powerful tools for synthesizing meaning, wrapped in a sharable, searchable video archive, all in a single easy-to-use platform
Work Adventure
Virtual office and remote event platform that provides an interactive 2D animated world and the ability to share video, audio, or images via the browser. w
CSM
Common Sense Machines (CSM) is building 3D generative AI models and agents that let users create controllable, production-ready workflows from images, text, and sketches. It's your 3D AI copilot
Hunyuan
Hunyuan3D 2.0 combines state-of-the-art shape generation and texture synthesis to create high-resolution 3D assets from text and images. Experience professional-grade 3D content creation powered by advanced AI.
Spline
Create 3D objects, edit materials, add interactivity, and export. Control the outcome of your 3d design work.
Spatial.io
Harness Spatial Computing and AI to unlock the next generation of interactive virtual worlds
8th Wall
Create XR Experiences & Web Games. Build with Niantic Studio for WebXR, 3D experiences and web games—no app required
Scaniverse
Discover, capture and share 3D scenes captured by people around the world with Niantic's Scaniverse. Free and easy to download.
Disco CoLab
DISCO CO(LAB) is a new series of inter-institutional collaborative research projects hosted by the Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab at the University of Maryland.
Georeferencer
Unlock the potential of your maps with our Georeferencer tool. Assign a geographical location to your scanned maps, enrich the metadata, invite the public to collaborate through crowdsourcing events, and make your maps visible online.
The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
It is a comprehensive resource for the 1,000+ “miracle stories” written about and the 2,500+ images painted of the Virgin Mary in these African countries, and preserved in Geʿez between 1300 and the present. It was developed by collaborators in the Department of Comparative Literature and Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
IATH Projects
BookSnake
Booksnake lets you bring digitized cultural heritage materials out of online archives and into the real world by using the power of augmented reality technology. Explore books, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and more. It feels like having the item there with you.
UK Data Service
Qualitative Data Repository
Qualitative Data Sharing Tool Kit
Boris
BORIS is an easy-to-use event logging software for video/audio coding and live observations. BORIS is an easy-to-use event logging software for video/audio coding and live observations.
Teachable Machine
Teachable Machine is a web-based tool that makes creating machine learning models fast, easy, and accessible to everyone.
LabArchive
Easily organize, search and share your scientific data in a powerful electronic lab notebook that will help you deliver higher-quality research, faster.
Cargo
Cargo is a site builder for designers and artists. We are interested in two main things: helping creative people secure jobs/clients through showing work and displaying work, generally.
Bellingcat’s Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit
This toolkit includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more. Most of the tools are available for free.
Wax
Jekyll based framework for minimal exhibitions with IIIF
LibStatic
Lib-Static is a provocation to rethink how we do digital infrastructure in libraries to recenter our technology choices around sustainable, pragmatic, and minimal approaches.
DocuScope
Making the invisible visible through natural language processing and interactive visualization
FairCopy
FairCopy is a simple and powerful tool for reading, transcribing, and encoding text.
Metavus
Metavus is about collecting, describing, and disseminating resources online, putting the power and control in your hands, to help you build and maintain digital collections that meet your needs.
eScriptorium
eScriptorium: A Digital Text Production Pipeline for Print and Handwritten Texts using machine learning techniques.
Canopy IIIF
An open-source static site generator designed for fast creation, contextualization, and customization of a discovery-focused digital scholarship and collections website using IIIF APIs.
AllMaps
Curating, georeferencing and exploring for IIIF maps. Millions of maps are available through IIIF, across libraries, archives and museums worldwide. Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.
Mapwarper
It's a free to use, open source map warper / map georectifier, and image georeferencer tool for individuals and small groups.
KoboToolBox
Intuitive and adaptable data tools to maximize your impact. A data collection, management, and visualization platform used globally to accelerate positive social change.
Cinemetrics
Cinemetrics tools not only let one record data to analyze movies as Yuri Tsivian did in his Intolerance study, but also publishes the gathered data on this web site for everyone to access.
LEAF-VRE
The Linked Editing Academic Framework - A Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities
kraken
kraken is a turn-key OCR system optimized for historical and non-Latin script material.
Open Funding
A guide for researching ways of funding open source projects.