Digital Humanities is a computer-based application in the humanities. Basically, digital technologies and resources are involved in digital humanities. Researchers and non-researchers can use it for analyzing texts in the corpus. Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit priest, is the pioneer of a newly cross-disciplinary field called digital humanities or humanities computing [1]. Digital archival, cultural analytics, text mining, cultural change analysis, online publishing, and Wikimedia are the example of digital humanities projects [2]. This article depicts some important tools for digital humanities.
#1 Voyant Tool
Voyant Tools is an open-source, web-based application for statistical, textual, and data analysis. It was initially released in 2003 and developed by Stéfan Sinclair & Geoffrey Rockwell. Users can upload their document files to analyze the text. It gives word cloud (e.g the title image/thumbnail), top terms or distinct terms, document trends, summary, the context of the text, and correlations.
#2 Google Books n-grams Viewer
The Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that uses a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed on a selected period to find the frequency of any collection of search phrases. It shows a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over the years [3,4]. We can perform a wildcard search, inflection search, part of speech tags search, and case sensitive search. This can be a very useful tool.
#3 TIME Magazine corpus
The TIME Magazine corpus provides millions of words in 275,000 articles from TIME magazine during the period1923-2006. It helps us to investigate the changes in American English.
#4 Palladio
Palladio is a product of the NEH Implementation grant, Networks in History: Data-driven tools for analyzing relationships across time [5]. It allows users researchers to visualize their complex data in maps, graphs, and tables. It is developed under Stanford's Humanities+Design lab.
#5 Time Graphics
Time Graphics is an online tool for creating timelines. It is basically a free tool but it has premium versions for academicians for advanced features.
#6 PiktoChart
Pikto Chart is another online tool for creating infographics, posters, presentations, flyers, reports, and graphs. There are restricted features in the freemium version; more visuals are available in the premium version.
#7 cMap Tools
Cmap is developed by Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). It is applicable for education, knowledge management, brainstorming, and etc. It allows users to create, share, criticize knowledge models as maps. It is freely available to download in Windows, OSX, and Linux.
# 8 Juxta
Juxta is open-source software for comparing and collating text data. It provides different visualizations. It is available for Windows, OSX, and UNIX OSs. Users can perform textual criticism (digital). It is based on "witness" aspects for adding and removing text. More information can be found on their GitHub page
#9 Padlet
Padlet is a powerful cloud-based educational tool. It was found by Nitish Goel. It offers knowledge management activities. It supports all types of file formats. Users can download software or use it online for creating, sharing, and publishing content. It also has different pricing models.
This article is written on basis of current information. In the future, the given hyperlinks and information may get updated.
[Note: This article is only for educational purposes]
References
[1] Stagnaro, Angelo. “The Italian Jesuit Who Taught Computers to Talk to Us.” National Catholic Register, 28 Jan. 2017, www.ncregister.com/blog/the-italian-jesuit-who-taught-computers-to-talk- to-us. Accessed 13 Oct. 2021.
[2] Wikipedia contributors. "Digital humanities." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 13 Oct. 2021. Web. 13 Oct. 2021.
[3] Wikipedia contributors. "Google Ngram Viewer." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 31 Aug. 2021. Web. 16 Oct. 2021.
[4] https://books.google.com/ngrams/info
[5] http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/about/
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