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140kit

140kit provides a management layer for tweet collection and analysis.

social media, Twitter, social networks
3DVIA Virtools

A software tool for the creation of 3D interactive environments. It may be used to model and interact with physical objects that currently or have previously existed in the real world, or create virtual environments that have not previously encountered.

3D modeling, 3D modeling, virtual environment, virtual reality, Virtual world modelling
960 Grid System

960 Grid System is a CSS template that comes with corresponding Acorn, Fireworks, Flash, InDesign, GIMP, Inkscape, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Visio, Exp Design, and printable templates to facilitate different stages of the web design process.

HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript, template, dh_developers
A.nnotate.com

A.nnotate.com allows you to annotate documents and images online. You may also collaborate on documents and index files. A.nnotate.com supports PDF and MS Office file formats, and runs on all common web browsers.

annotation, collaboration, editing, Indexing, organization
Abbot

Abbot is a tool for undertaking large-scale conversion of XML document collections in order to make them interoperable with one another. In particular, Abbot can make one or more collections conform to a designated schema (including a schema used to define one of the collections).

XSLT, TEI, TEI-A, conversion, Java, DHCS
ABBYY Fine Reader

An (optical character recognition) engine for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs.
Features:

OCR, scanning, Cyrillic, BMP, csv, DCX, djvu, doc, GIFF, HTML, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, PCX, PDF, PNG, ppt, rtf, TIFF, TXT, WDP, XLS, XPS
Academia

Academia allows academics to have free web pages, and displays the branches of academia in a tree-like format, grouped by universities and departments.

social networking, collaboration
Adapter

Adapter is a free video converter that converts avi, saves flash .flv, crops video and more. It also works with audio and image files. converting wav to mp3 and transforming jpg files.

Adobe After Effects

After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software.

Animation, Motion graphics, visual effects
Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is a media management application used for organizing, browsing, locating, and viewing creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2, and is now in version CS5

Features:

design, graphics
Adobe Dreamweaver

A web content editing tool, Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You GET pronounced wizzywig) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites.

CSS, eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), HTML, PHP, SVN, web design, web site, WYSIWYG
Adobe Flash

Authoring environment for interactive content on desktops, televisions, smartphones and tablets

authoring environment
Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals.

design, graphics, raster, vector
Adobe InDesign

InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. The latest version, InDesign CS5.5 , is the twelfth generation in the product line.

Features:

design, graphics
Advene

The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily create comments and analyses of video documents, through the definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation into

video, annotation, template, visualization
Afloat

Afloat is a utility that adds new window management functionality to OSX, including keeping a window on top, or turning a window into an overlay on the screen. This can be particularly useful in full-screen view (e.g.

Twitter, presentation, PowerPoint, DH Answers
All Our Ideas

All Our Ideas is a research project that seeks to develop a new form of social data collection by combining the best features of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Alpheios

The goal of the Alpheios project is to help people learn how to learn languages as efficiently and enjoyably as possible, and in a way that best helps them understand their own literary heritage and culture, and the literary heritage and culture of other peoples throughout history.

language processing, morphological analysis, lexicography, sequence alignment
Altmetric

The Altmetric Explorer is a powerful web app that allows you to track the conversations around scientific articles online. Altmetric collects and analyzes hundreds of thousands of postings about tens of thousands of articles and datasets each month.

alt-metrics, metrics, citations, impact
Analyse-it

A set of dataset management and statistical tests plugins for Excel '97 and 2010 including single and multiple linear regression, polynomial regression, and scatter plot with fit, fit confidence and prediction bands.

statistics, analysis, charts
Anastasia

A software application that enables a user to search, manipulate and publish large SGML/XML documents. Anastasia was developed within an academic context to enable the manipulation of a single, large mark-up documents or a set of documents.

data modeling, element, eXtensible Markup Language (XML), eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), markup, parsing, sgml
ANNIS

ANNIS2 is an open source, versatile web browser-based search and visualization architecture for complex multilevel linguistic corpora with diverse types of annotation.

tagger, parsing, parser, grammatical tagging, XML, Corpus annotation, corpus linguistics
AnnotateIt

AnnotateIt lets users annotate anything anywhere on the web.

Annotation Graph Toolkit (AGTK)

Annotation Graphs are a formal framework for representing linguistic annotations of time series data. (Note: last updated 2007)

C++, Java, Python, toolkit, library
Annotator's Workbench

The Annotator's Workbench is a software tool that enables users to create a collection from a set of existing video files, segment that collection, create annotations and assign vocabulary terms to the segments, and control access.

annotation, editing, transcription, video
Annotorious

A Web-based image annotation tool, built specifically for integration with existing Web pages or portal environments. Annotorious is also available as a plugin to the Annotator Web annotation system by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Image Annotation
Annotum

Annotum is an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress.

Annozilla (Annotea on Mozilla)

Annozilla allows you to view and create annotations associated with a web page. To use Annozilla you need to install the packages and get set up with an account with the W3C test server.

annotation
AnSWR

AnSWR supports qualitative analysis of word-based data. This entails a set of methods for organizing, displaying, processing, summarizing, and interpreting information.

data analysis
AntConc

AntConc is free concordance software.

concordance
Anthologize

Anthologize is a WordPress plugin that allows users to outline, order, and edit content into a single volume that can be exported as PDF, TEI or epub.

PDF, epub, TEI, conversion, ebooks, DH Answers
ANTHROPAC

ANTHROPAC is a menu-driven DOS program for collecting and analyzing data on cultural domains. The program assists with the collection and analysis of structured qualitative and quantitative data, and provides analytical and multivariate tools.

data analysis
AntWordProfiler

AntWordProfiler is free software for analyzing word frequency.

word frequency, frequency, text mining, text analysis
Anvil

ANVIL is a free video annotation tool. It offers multi-layered annotation based on a user-defined coding scheme.

Apache
ArcExplorer

ArcExplorer is a custom mapping tool that can be used in a web browser. ArcExplorer allows you to perform a range of basic GIS functions such as display, query and retrieve data.
Features:

geography, Geospatial computing, Geospatial technology, GIS
ArcGis

ArcGIS is a suite of software that comprises of Desktop GIS, Server GIS, Mobile GIS, and Online GIS.

Geospatial computing, Geospatial technology, GIS, COM, Delphi, eXtensible Markup Language (XML), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Java, Microsoft's .NET Framework, TCP/IP, Unified Modelling Language (UML), Visual Basic, Visual C++
Archeosurveyor

A software application for the transfer, assembly and enhancement of geophysical data obtained from gradiometers, resistivity meters and other monitoring instruments. With support for Geoplot, GSSI Profiler, Surfer (ASCII & binary) and Scintrex input formats

environmental modelling, Geophysics, gradiometer, monitor
Archive-It

Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content.

web archiving
Archivematica

Archivematica is a digital preservation system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects.

Digital Archives, Digital Curation, Digital Preservation
ARTFL Encyclopédie Project

The ARTFL Encyclopédie Project has digitized the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres (published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert between 1751 and 1772, containing 74,000 articles written by more...

French, encyclopedia
arts-humanities.net

arts-humanities.net aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing information on projects creating and using digital content; tools and methods to answer research questions; a listing of expert...

social networking, collaboration
Aruspix

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music, collation, OCR, DH Answers, history
AskSam

askSam is an application to organize information. You may use askSam to turn email, word processing documents, text files, spreadsheets and Web pages into a searchable database.

organization, database
Asset Bank

A digital asset management system for the storage, management and delivery of raster images, audiovisual content, documents and other resources. The software provides limited eCommerce functionality for use by institutions that wish to use the system to sell digital products.

digital asset management, digital repository, ecommerce, publishing, visualization
Atlas.ti

The purpose of ATLAS.ti is to help researchers uncover and systematically analyze complex phenomena hidden in text and multimedia data.

Qualitative Data Analysis
Attensity

text analytic and data extraction framework: data and semantic analytics in a suite of business applications.

data modeling, text analysis, social media
Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder.

audio
AustESE

eResearch tools to support the collaborative authoring and management of electronic scholarly editions.

Autodesk 3ds Max

Autodesk 3ds Max (formerly 3D Studio MAX) is an open source graphics software tool used by video game developers, motion picture studios and architectural visualisers for modelling and animation projects.

Alias StudioTools (.wire), Autodesk Drawing eXchange Format (DXF), Game Exchange 2 (.ge2), IGES (.igs .iges), Maya ASCII (.ma), Maya binary (.mb), Maya IFF (.iff), OpenFlight (.flt), RealTime Game format (.rtg), RenderMan (.rib), STEP (.stp .step .ste), VRML (.vrm .vrml), Wavefront (.obj), 3d graphic design, 3d imaging, 3D modeling, 3D Software, Animation, architecture, cgi, cinema, computer graphics, open source, video_games
Awesome Highlighter

Awesome Highlighter enables you to highlight text on a web page and then provides you with a link to the highlighted page.

annotation, highlight, linked data
Balsamiq Mockups

Balsamiq Mockups is a simple, flexible, and collaborative software for building wireframes for websites, apps, and other digital media.

wireframes
Bamboo Content Interoperability Hub

The Bamboo Content Interoperability Hub (CI gub) is an effort to largely automate the time-consuming process of downloading and compiling data from different repositories and archives and standardizing some of the format differences.

interoperability, repository
Bamboo HUBzero Work Space

The HubZero Bamboo Work Space is an instance of HubZero enhanced with the combined functionality of the Bamboo Services Platform, Content Interoperability Hub, and Person Service built-in.

Project Bamboo, work space
Bamboo Person Service

The Bamboo Person Service can help scholars access all the resources (tools, collections, and shared data) they have permissions for due to their institutional affiliations, scholarly society membership, association with research groups, etc.

identity, identity management, authentication, authorization, credit
Bamboo Services Platform

The Bamboo Services platform, currently in development, provides a number of useful features for tool developers who want to make their tool available as a service, including authentication and authorization options and a result-caching service that allows users to start long-running automated...

Project Bamboo, API
BASE

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a search engine for academic open access web resources that searches materials stored in OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) enabled repositories.

search, OAI-PMH, repository, Open Access
Basecamp

Project management software for sharing files, messages, and task management, including options for daily update emails, real time document editing.

project management, task management, productivity
Basis Technology

Basis provides natural language processing technology for the analysis of unstructured multilingual text.

text analysis, language identification, translation, multilingual
BatchGeo

BatchGeo takes addresses and converts them into coordinates, and maps the results.

geocoding, DH Answers
BBEdit

A text editor designed for use by software developers and web designers. BBEdit provides native support for several programming and scripting languages. Third party custom modules are available, created by users, to handle languages that are not supported in the native application.

markup, syntax, syntax highlighting, text editing
Beautiful Soup

saves programmers hours or days of work on quick-turnaround screen scraping projects

Python, HTML, XML, search, Unicode, UTF-8, conversion, DH Answers
BibApp

BibApp allows you to promote your research, find collaborators on your own campus in your research area, in order to make research more accessible in general.

collaboration, social networking
BibDesk

BibDesk allows you to edit and manage your bibliography. It keeps track of the bibliographic information, associated files, and web links.

bibliographic management
Bibliogo

Bibliogo is a journal article web app that allows you to create and share bibliographies, manage journal alerts, follow feeds, tag citations, and order articles. Compatible with the iPad.

bibliographic management, citation management, iPad
Bibliopedia

Bibliopedia is an open source, semantic wiki research platform designed to crawl scholarly resources including JSTOR, the Library of Congress, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and similar data sources, extract metadata about works cited, convert that data into a semantic web format,...

linked data, semantic web, wiki, citations, citation management, web crawler
BibMe

BibMe is an automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills information, allowing you to build easily a works cited page. You can download your bibliography in either MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turbian formats.

bibliographic management
BibServer

BibServer is a tool for quickly and easily sharing collections of bibliographic metadata.

BibText
Bibus

Bibus is a bibliographic management software. You may search, edit, and sort bibliographic records. You can also perform live queries, and insert references and formatting into various Word Processors.

bibliographic management
BITEXT

Bitext provides multilingual semantic technologies in the field of Text Analyics via API with services like Entity Extraction, Concept Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, and Text Categorisation.

Text Analytics, sentiment analysis, multilingual, linguistic technologies
bitly

Bitly is a link shortening service that also helps you share, track, and analyze your links.

Blackboard Scholar

Blackboard Scholar is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It allows students and instructors to find educational resources on the Web. Available only to users of the Blackboard Learning System.

sharing, collaboration, social bookmarking
Blacklight

Blacklight is an open source Ruby on Rails gem that provides a discovery interface for any Solr index.

Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT)

The Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT) is a free, Web-based system for capturing, archiving and sharing blog posts. Blog posts are acquired via RSS feeds, and stored in a database where they can be accessed and shared by other researchers. Free registration is required.

RSS, archives, blogging
Blogger

Blogger is simple blog publishing software owned by Google.

blogging
Bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web designers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

Bookends

Bookends is reference management software that allows you to collect, annotate, and cite publications. Bookends performs Internet searches to retrieve references and associated web pages, or find and import references from other locations.

bibliographic management
Bookworm

Bookworm enables you to graphically explore lexical trends across a huge digital library.

Bootstrap

Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.

Boxer

Boxer is an easy-to-use DOS emulator for Mac OSX intended specifically for playing old DOS games.

DOS, game studies
brat rapid annotation tool

This online tool can be used for a wide variety of annotation tasks, including visualization and collaboration.

Corpus annotation, corpus linguistics, annotation, grammatical tagging, collaboration
bubbl.us

bubbl.us is free web-based mind mapping software.

mind mapping, visualization, sticky notes
BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a variant of WordPress that includes social networking features.

web publishing, social networking
BuddyPress Courseware

BuddyPress Courseware is a learning management system (LMS) plugin for BuddyPress.

LMS, course, plugin
BuzzData

BuzzData is a user-friendly, versatile data-sharing software.

data sharing
Calibre

Calibre is a free and open source ebook library management application, including options for syncing to devices and converting between a large number of formats.

ebooks, epub, djvu, HTML, mobi, odt, PDF, DH Answers
CamStudio

CamStudio is free and open source screencasting software that saves the video as AVI files, though a Flash converter is included.

screencast, SWF, AVI
Camtasia

Camtasia is Mac/Windows software for recording screencasts.

screencast
capella-scan

capella-scan can "OCR" music scores from PDF or common image formats and output the results in MusicXML for use with common music editing software.

music, MusicXML, CapXML, OCR, PDF, scanning, DH Answers
Captivate

Captivate is software for recording audio and video of a user's screen. Users can import PowerPoint slides and add rich media, simulations, and quizzes, and publish them to learning management systems that support the SCORM standard.

screencast, SCORM, e-learning, distance education
Capture Fox

Capture Fox is a Firefox plugin that allows the user to record their voice and their sccreen.

screencast
Carrot2

Carrot2 is an open source search results clustering engine. It automatically organizes small collections of documents into categories.

organization, visual search
Casual

Casual allows you to search for a concept or common word and produces a unique cloud of concepts. Results are randomly displayed as definitions, related tags, and pictures.

visual search, images, text
CATMA: Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis

CATMA provides a visual interface for text markup and analysis using a "query builder" and more powerful query language. A number of statistical and non-statistical analyses are built-in.

statistics, data analysis, text mining
Cestagi

Cestagi is a collaborative platform that connects interdisciplinary communities. You can create a CV, share contributions, ask questions, learn about upcoming events, search employment opportunities, and track information.

collaboration, social networking
Chartle

Create simple charts.

charts, data visualization, Javascript
CHET-C

CHET-C, or Chapel Hill Electronic Text-Converter, is a software tool designed to convert digital texts that employ standard typographic editorial conventions into EpiDoc-compliant XML files.

EpiDoc, epigraphy, eXtensible Markup Language (XML), Papyrology, text encoding, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Chicken

Chicken (originally called Chicken of the VNC) is a VNC client, or Virtual Network Computing, that allows you to display and interact with a remote computer while displaying it on a remote screen.

client, remote desktop, transfer, Vnc, Chicken of the VNC
Chrome

Chrome is a free browser, similar to Firefox, with numerous free extensions.

browser
CIrcos

Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions.

data visualization, data analysis
Citeline

Citeline is a web-based service that assists with the publishing of bibliographies and citation collections. You can create interactive exhibits and share your data online. Additionally, you can also import Zotero and BibTex files. Citeline is part of MIT's Simile project.

bibliographic management, citation management, data sharing
CiteULike

CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library.

bibliographic management, social networking, collaboration
CiteULike

CiteULike allows users to store, organise and share the scholarly papers they read, by clicking on a button on CiteULike-enabled sites, which automatically extracts the bibliographic information and saves it to CiteULike.

annotation, plugin, research, bibliography, citation management, organization, BibTex
Clarify

Mac tool for taking multiple screenshots, annotating them, and combining them into a single document.

screen capture, image editing
Classical Text Editor

The Classical Text Editor was designed to enable scholars working on a critical edition or on a text with commentary or translation to prepare a camera-ready copy or electronic publication without bothering much about making up and page proofs.

scholarly edition, scholarly editing
Claws Tagger

Parts-of-Speech (POS) tagging software - the classification of words into one or more categories based upon its definition, relationship with other words, or other context.

Corpus annotation, grammatical tagging, Parts-of-speech
Cluuz

Cluuz is a search engine that shows not only links to related pages, but also entities (people, companies, organizations) and images that are extracted from within the search results.

clustering, visual search
CMAP

CMAP allows users to create, navigate, and share concept maps that can easily be displayed online using HTML and Javascript.

HTML, Javascript, toolkit, mind mapping
Co-ment

Co-ment is a text annotation and collaborative writing tool. Co-ment provides a friendly graphic user interface for text annotation, collaboration and writing texts online.

annotation, collaboration, writing
Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT)

CAT is an environment for coding and analyzing data sets, including computing inter-rater reliability. Users can create a free account, or download the ASP.NET tool suite to run independently.

.NET, analysis, coding
Coggle

Coggle is a simple, beautiful way of structuring information that you can use to collaborate in real-time with others.

mind mapping, concept mapping, collaboration
CollateX

CollateX is a Java software for collating textual sources, for example, to produce a critical apparatus. As of January 2012 the project was at an early stage of development and lacked thorough documentation.

collation, critical apparatus, critical editions
Collation Works

CollateX-based text collation client. CollateX, run on an server independent from the URL above, is a powerful, fully automatic, baseless text collation engine for multiple witnesses. A second collation technique, ncritic, provides a slightly different baseless text collation.

collation, text analysis, critical editions, critical apparatus, TEI, XML
Collex

"Collex allows users to collect, annotate, and tag online objects and to repurpose them in illustrated, interlinked essays or exhibits."

tagging, annotation, exhibit
Collin's Parser

A statistical natural language parser for analyzing text to determine its grammatical structure.

natural language processing, parsing, Statistical analysis
Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer presents the user with a color wheel and a few color scheme styles (e.g. mono, complement, triad), and by moving arrows around the color wheel, users can look at and compare different color palettes suitable for web design, logos, etc.

design, colors, branding
ColorBrewer

Interactive tool for selecting most appropriate colors for maps and other visualizations.

HND

usability, maps, data visualization, colors
Commentpress

Commentpress is a theme and plugin for WordPress that enables granular public commenting on texts.

web publishing, commenting, peer review
Commons In A Box

CBOX offers a unique suite of features designed to give users of all skill levels the ability to create vibrant online communities. Essentially a WordPress plugin, its intuitive, out-of-the-box set-up tool guides site administrators through each step of installation.

Community Contributed Collection (CoCoCo)

CoCoCo is an application for collecting, cataloging, and assessing the quality of user-submitted text or uploaded-file contributions.

Ruby on Rails, crowdsourcing, quality control, collaboration
Compfight

Search Flickr for Creative Commons-licensed photos.

Creative Commons, images, image galleries
Concordance

A software tool for performing concordance – the analysis of a set of words within its immediate context - on a body of text. The tool performs full concordance, reading and analysing each and every word in a text.

concordance, text analysis, web concordance, word list, word usage
Confluence

Confluence is enterprise wiki software, available either for installation on a local server or via cloud hosting. Open source projects can request a free license.

cloud storage, hosting, wiki, DH Answers
ConfTool

ConfTool is a conference management system that helps users register participants, submit and review contributions, and schedule the conference program. Non-commercial events with less than 150 participants can request a free license.

conferences, abstract, scheduling
CONTENTdm

CONTENTdm is digital collection management software that allows for the upload, description, management and access of digital collections.

archives, Content management, repository
Cornell Method PDF Generator

This is a simple tool for creating custom notetaking sheets (ie blank, ruled, or graph style). You may automate the generation of the sheets to customize them with your name, date etc.

annotation, notetaking, writing
CorpusSearch

CorpusSearch 2 allows users to construct and search syntactically annotated corpora, including finding and counting lexical and syntactic patterns, correcting systemic errors, and coding linguistic features.

Java, corpus, search, syntax, lexicon, error correction, DHCS
Crowdmap

Crowdmap is a free hosted instance of Ushahidi.

cloud storage, mapping
Cucumber

Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format.

cue.language

cue.language is a Java library that has tokenizing (words/sentences/ngram), string counting, language guessing, and stop word detection capabilities.

NLP, Java, tokenizing, stop words, Ngrams
CulturalAnalytics

CulturalAnalytics is an R package containing functions for statistical analysis and plotting of image properties, including statistics such as the standard deviation and mean in the RGB and HSV color spaces, image entropy and histograms in greyscale (intensity) and color, and for plotting color...

images, standard deviation, mean, image entropy, histogram
Cytoscape

Cytoscape is a platform for complex network analysis, visualization, and annotation.

Java, dh_developers, network analysis
D3.js

D3.js is a data visualization library by Mike Bostock, who is also the primary creator of Protovis, which D3 is designed to replace. The D3 library
There is a great introductory tutorial available from Luke Franci.

Javascript
Data Desk

Data Desk implements traditional statistical techniques using a simple graphic display interface for data exploration.

statistics, charts
Data for Research (DFR)

After creating a free account, users can submit requests for mining and analyzing JSTOR content. By submitting a query, a user will receive a random sample of 1,000 of JSTOR's 4.6 million documents; more documents can be received by contacting JSTOR directly.

data mining, Ngrams, citations
Dataplot

Dataplot is free, public-domain software for statistical analysis, and non-linear modeling.

charts, statistics
Datapress

Datapress is a wordpress plugin that allows you to configure beautiful data presentations for your blog entries using MIT’s Exhibit framework.

Dataverse

The Dataverse Network is an application to publish, share, reference, extract and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows to replicate others work.

Dedoose

Cross-platform app for analyzing text, video, and spreadsheet data (analyzing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research)

DeeperWeb

DeeperWeb is a Firefox add-on that adds a tag cloud to Google search results.

tag cloud
Delicious

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage, and share web pages from a centralized source.

bookmarking, organization
Denemo

Denemo is a music notation editor with a graphical user interface that allows users to enter notation for typesetting by the LilyPond music engraver.

music, score
DEVONthink

DEVONthink is a database that helps users organize digital files, including emails and PDFs.

iPad, document management, organization, DH Answers
DEVONthink

DEVONthink saves all your documents, keeps them organized, and recalls them whenever you need them.

Diagram.ly

draw.io is an online diagramming application built for speed, reliability and simplicity.

data visualization, charts
DICTION

Diction analyzes texts for language indicating certainty, activity, optimism, realism, and commonality.

data mining, data analysis
digilib

Digilib is a web based client/server technology for images. The image content is processed on-the-fly by a Java Servlet on the server side so that only the visible portion of the image is sent to the web browser on the client side.

annotation, Image enhancement, collaboration
Digitate

Digitate is a free application designed for use on the iOS platform, specifically on iPad devices.

digress.it

Digress.it is a WordPress plug-in that allows paragraph-level commenting in the margins of a text. Use digress.it as a collaboration tool for blog-style comment threads off individual paragraphs. Host your project on digress.it or download it for use with your own WordPress installation.

annotation, collaboration, editing, writing
Diigo

Diigo ("Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff") allows users to bookmark web pages, annotate, highlight and share them. You can also discover resources other people have bookmarked.

bookmarking
Diligo
DiscoverText

DiscoverText allows users to import data from a variety of sources (including Facebook & Twitter feeds, plain text, Word, Excel, public YouTube comments, blogs/wikis, PDF, etc.), code them, and generate tag clouds and reports.

word cloud, social media, text analysis, text mining
Dispute Finder

Dispute Finder is a Firefox plugin that allows individuals to tag text on websites as controversial, and view which passages other people have marked.

annotation, controversy
DM (Digital Mappaemundi)

DM is an environment for the study and annotation of images and texts. It is a suite of tools, enabling scholars to gather and organize the evidence necessary to support arguments based in digitized resources.

DOAJ

The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a full-text search engine for open access journals.

Open Access
DocScanner

Android and iOS app that uses your phone or iPad's built-in camera to scan documents. Includes image optimization, OCR, option to save as PDF, JPEG, or text file, and ability to send documents to other accounts (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, etc.)

image scanning, scanning, 2d Scanning and photography, OCR
DocumentCloud

Designed for journalists, a web-based service for working with primary sources that features search and analysis, highlighting and annotation, and document sharing. Uses Tesseract for OCR and allows users to upload documents and search other its document collection.

DocuScope

DocuScope is a text analysis environment with a suite of interactive visualization tools for corpus-based rhetorical analysis. Designed as a tool for rhetorical analysis, it's also extremely effective for developing the dictionary in a systematic fashion.

Domeo Annotation Toolkit

Domeo is an extensible web application enabling users to visually and efficiently create and share ontology-based stand-off annotation on HTML or XML document targets.

annotation, XML, ontologies, collaboration
Doodle

Doodle is an online scheduling tool to help collaborators find a common time to meet. An organizer can set up a number of proposed meeting times and send a survey out to participants, who can indicate their availability.

calendar, scheduling, collaboration
DownThemAll

DownThemAll is a Firefox plugin that allows users to download all the links or images contained in a webpage.

downloading, images, web crawler
Dragon Dictation

Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition application that allows you to speak and instantly see your text content from email messages to blog posts on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.

mobile, dictation, transcription, iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone
Dropbox

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website.

Drupal

Drupal is an extremely flexible general content management system with numerous plugins that provide scholar-oriented functionality.

web publishing, PHP
DSpace

DSpace is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.

Dundas

Software for creating data dashboards.

business intelligence, data visualization, dashboards
Durationator

The Durationator is a web-based tool which seeks to make the past usable one query at a time by providing legal information regarding the copyright term of any given cultural work.

copyright, fair use
EATS

The Entity Authority Tool Set (EATS) is a web application for recording, editing, using and displaying authority information about entities.

Authority Access, Authority Control, Entity Management, linked data
EchoDamp

EchoDamp is a multi-channel audio mixer and echo controller designed primarily for the High-Bandwidth Musical Video-teleconference environment.

audio, mixer, teleconference
Edit Flow

Edit Flow gives you custom statuses, a calendar, editorial comments, and more, all to make it much easier for your team to collaborate within WordPress.

EditGrid

online spreadsheets, collaborative editing, connected to data sources

spreadsheet
Edition Production & Presentation Technology (EPPT)

EPPT allows users to encode image-based scholarly editions without having to know XML syntax. It automates or semi-automates repeating attributes, and provides templates to reduce errors and accelerate the encoding process.

annotation, transcription, images, manuscripts, XML, scholarly edition
Editors' Notes

Editors' Notes is an open-source, web-based tool for recording, organizing, preserving, and opening access to research notes, built with the needs of documentary editing projects, archives, and library special collections in mind.

research, note taking, annotation, documentary editing, collaboration
EduBlogs

Edublogs is cloud hosting for education WordPress sites with an option for a simplified interface. Free accounts are ad-supported.

blogging, cloud storage, ad-supported
EEBO-TCP

The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership has converted tens of thousands of books from ProQuest’s EEBO image product into fully-searchable, TEI-compliant SGML/XML texts.

Project Bamboo, annotation, Corpora Space, DHCS
eLaborate

eLaborate is a digital tool for the creation and research of texts online. Researchers may create websites, individually or with collaborators, on the transcription and edition of a text.

annotation, collaboration, editing, writing
ELAN

ELAN is a tool for creating annotations on multiple layers on audio and video resources. The textual content of annotations is in Unicode and the transcription is stored in XML.

annotation, audio, video, transcription
EndNote

EndNote is a reference management software tool used to organise references, images and PDFs in any language. References may be added manually or by importing from EndNote to instantly create bibliographies and figure lists.

bibliography, citations, reference management software, reference management software
epcEdit

A structured text editor that may be used to create, edit, validate and convert XML and SGML documents. EpcEdit contains an integrated validating parser, an editor for CALS and HTML tables, an attribute editor and an element manipulation tool.

Features:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML), eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), parsing
EPrints.org

A digital repository software package that may be used to accept, manage and publish digital objects. It is widely used in academia as a system to manage academic research papers, electronic theses and other distinct digital resources.

digital repository, eprints, institutional repository, oais, preservation
epub-tools

epub-tools is a collection of Python tools for generating and managing epub documents from Word, RTF, DocBook, TEI and FictionBook.

epub, Python, Docbook, FictionBook, TEI, rtf, doc, docx, DH Answers, ebooks
ERDAS Imagine

ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial authoring software. The suite contains a raster graphics editor and remote sensing application that performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modelling to create new information.

Content management, open source, publishing, web-server, AWK, CSS, doc, Javascript, PDF, Perl, PHP, Python, XHTML, XML
Event Structure Analysis

Developed at Indiana University, Event Structure Analysis is made up of three components: Ethno, prerequisite analysis, and composition analysis.

data analysis, coding
EventSeer

Eventseer is a personalized tracker that alerts you when a new event matches your interests (people, topics, organizations). You may contribute material on your personal research whiteboard, such as job offers, requests for reviewers, or information about software releases.

social networking, organization
Evernote

Evernote is note-taking software in the cloud, with options for private and shared notebooks. Users can take text notes, and upload files to attach them to notes. Evernote has built-in OCR for images with printed or handwritten text.

cloud storage, notetaking, OCR, collaboration, DH Answers, iPad
Evri

Evri develops iPad, iPhone and Android applications that provide news, photos, videos and tweets. You may customize your app to get updates on your favorite topics.

monitoring news, iPad, images, video
Exceed

Exceed is a PC X server system which allows for graphical user interface (GUI) interactions with networked computers. Exceed provides data exchange among applications on different platforms including UNIX, Linux, VMS, X Window Based System and IBM mainframes.

Graphical User Interface (GUI), networked computers, x window system, x11
Excel

Microsoft Excel is spreadsheet software with calculation, graphing tools, and pivot table options for analyzing data. A cloud-hosted version is available as part of Office 365.

spreadsheet, database
Exhibit 3.0

Exhibit 3.0 is a publishing framework for large scale data-rich interactive Web pages. The beta version is scalable up to 100k items.

scalability, web publishing, RDF, triples
eXist-db

eXist-db is an open source database management system that stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.

XML, XQuery, database, DH Answers
EXMARaLDA

EXMARaLDA (Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation) is a system of concepts, data formats and tools for the computer assisted transcription and annotation of spoken language, and for the construction and analysis of spoken language corpora.

XML, Java, corpus, transcription, audio
exploratree

Exploratree is a database of "interactive thinking guides" (templates for brainstorming and planning) that are downloadable and editable within the browser.

collaboration, template, mind mapping
Express Scribe Transcription Software

Express Scribe is a professional audio player software for PC or Mac that assists in the transcription of audio recordings.

transcription, audio recording
F4

F4 eases the transcription process of audio or video recordings and you can safe about 30% of your time. You can adjust the playback speed to your personal transcription speed. Further there is a foot pedal usable to control the playback.

transcription
FacultyFiles

Web-based tool for managing courses (especially online courses) that allows you to save grading feedback, discussion reply posts, files, lectures, and so forth. Features a user community to discuss the tool, teaching in general, and includes a job board.

course, course management, pedagogy, online couses
Fedora Commons

Fedora Commons (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is widely used in the academic sector as a basis for the creation of an digital library, archive, or repository system. Fedora provides a set of software tools to ingest, manage and deliver digital objects.

content model, digital asset management, digital repository, object, preservation
FieldWorks Data Notebook

FieldWorks Data Notebook is a data management tool developed primarily for language and cultural fieldwork. The Data Notebook may be used for managing observations, texts, and similar types of data.

annotation, fieldwork, editing, data management
FigShare

Figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models.

Finale

Finale is music notation software with MusicXML support.

music, MusicXML, MIDI, score

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