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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? Licensing
HuMap Geospatial Storytelling (interactive maps) Help & Guidance - Humap; support portal for subscribers Paid subscription required
Memory Mapper Geospatial Storytelling (interactive maps) Setup instructions via Memory Mapper GitHub; paid support options Free/Opensource, or paid support options
NodeGoat Data modelling, creation and exploration, visualisation/publishing. Designed for humanities research with emphasis on geographical and chronological mapping and working with sources. Guides and how-tos here. Documentation here. Free/OpenSource web app. Creation of free account required.
Palladio Data modelling, creation and exploration, visualisation/publishing. Designed for humanities research with emphasis on geographical and chronological mapping and working with sources. Tutorials and FAQs here. Submit bugs/issues on GitHub here. Free/OpenSource web app.
QGIS Geospatial Imaging, free/opensource alternative to ArcGIS. Examples, tutorials, documentation and FAQ available here. Free/OpenSource
StoryMap Geospatial Storytelling (interactive maps) Documentation and FAQ here. Free/OpenSource
TimeMapper Geospatial Storytelling (interactive maps); Timelines Documentation and FAQ here. Free/OpenSource
Mapbox Geospatial Storytelling (interactive maps) Documentation and API here. Free/OpenSource, or paid support options