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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
Exhibit Web-publishing platform for GLAM content using the IIIF standard (good for distributed collections). Welcome (exhibit.so) Web-hosting or customizable self-hosting available.
eXistdb Build native xml databases to stores textual or binary data and documents without requiring a schema (database and/or coding experience recommended if self-building). How-to guides, demos, examples and documentation here. Free/Open Source, custom support for individual projects at cost
GitHub Developer platform, widely used in data projects and increasingly used in collaborative Digital Humanities projects. Particularly good for: project repositories and data-sharing, hosting/dissemination, version control and workflows. Community and collaboration oriented. Github docs includes getting started guides, links to community discussions. Dedicated support site for troubleshooting user issues. Free/Opensource. Creation of free account required, paid options available for teams and enterprise.
Heurist Database design application, iterative build allows modification of structure as project progresses. Humanities data focused. Graphical user interface (no coding required). Linkable to open data. Web app. FAQ and tutorials. In-app error reporting. User groups and mailing list via community pages. Free/Open source. Bespoke build/hosting options at cost.
Tropy Organize and describe photographs of research material, add metadata, curate grouped lists of items. Compatible with online exhibition software such as Omeka, and with IIIF, CSV and SCL formats. Documentation includes user guides. Community advice/support via forums. Free/Open Source
Twine Tool for creating interactive and non-linear stories, published directly to HTML.

"The Twine Reference is a guide to the Twine user interface. If you're new to Twine, start here.

The Twine Cookbook has advice on how to choose a story format and easy-to-follow examples of how to accomplish common tasks with each of Twine's built-in formats."

Free/Open Source