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Digital Scholarship Tools

A selection of tools for digital research and scholarship: a mixture of free or open source and proprietary tools, arranged by broad area of practice.
Tool What can I use this for? Training/Support materials? License type
<oXygen/> .xml editor Author, edit and publish XML and JSON documents, create stylesheets, databases and CMS. Useful for creation of scholarly editing projects and interoperable with TEI standards. Extensive documentation and technical support Proprietary: 30 day free trial, academic subscriptions available.
LEAF-Writer XML & RDF online editor, GitHub-compatible to enable document storage, or run in-browser. High-spec free alternative to premium editor oXygen For bug support, visit the bugs/issues GitLab OpenSource/Free
Notepad++ Entry level plain-text editor suitable for transcription/mark-up, with more advanced extensions allowing data-cleaning and transformation. Visit the NPP Help Centre OpenSource/Free.
TextGrid Set of open-source tools for scholarly editing, TEI compatible and interoperable with <oXygen/> (to which it is a good opensource alternative). Tutorials and documentation; community pages. OpenSource/Free
Transkribus AI-assisted transcription of manuscript and printed texts Transkribus resource centre. Freemium – limited free version available (tiered subscription model).
AntConc Freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis Documentation; google groups discussion group. OpenSource/Free
Voyant Browser-based text analysis tools Guides and Documentation. OpenSource/Free
Hypothes.is Internet annotation tool Getting Started Guides Free and paid versions