Digital Humanities: Tools

Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits

ISIDORE is a search engine providing access to digital data from the Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH).

Commons In A Box (CBOX) takes the complexity out of creating an online space, or digital commons, for your community. CBOX’s free open-source software provides an infrastructure that encourages discussion, collaboration, and sharing.

SHEBANQ is an online environment for studying the Hebrew Bible. Scholarly editions of the Bible usually dedicate space to a critical apparatus and various kinds of annotations. SHEBANQ introduces the idea of annotating the text with queries. They show up next to the chapters where the results are.

DanteSources is a tool that allows users to retrieve information about Dante's primary sources. DanteSources allows users to visualize through tables and charts the list and the distribution of primary sources, authors and thematic areas cited by Dante in his works.

An open-source framework for the creation of interactive Web presentations of high-resolution 3D models, oriented to the Cultural Heritage field.

A project aimed at developing the software tools, skills, and knowledge base to allow humanities researchers to use visualisation - specifically on high-resolution displays powered by supercomputers – to perform novel research

The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity

A pluralistic digital archive that tells the reality of Hiroshima atomic bomb

A network of nearly 30,000 individuals -many of them iconic figures in British culture - connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation. It is a vision of the nation’s history as a giant family affair.

The Virtual St Paul’s Cathedral Project enables users to experience worship and preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral and in Paul’s Churchyard as events that unfold over time and on particular occasions in London in the early seventeenth century.

Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades. Users can visualise content on Forty years of Signs via topic modeling, citation patterns, a cover art gallery, editorial curation, and commentaries

3D Warehouse contains millions of models created in SketchUP—the 3D modeling and design application

A collection of 3D objects form the Google Cultural Heritage contributors. Contributors include the Dallas Museum of Art, LACMA, and the California Academy of Sciences, among others.

3D reconstruction of the ancient city of Babylon created in 2013 for the Mesopotamia exhibition of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Closer to Van Eyck was an interdisciplinary research project to assess the structural condition of the Ghent Altarpiece. The site contains high-resolution images and digital macrophotography of the piece. You may view the whole altarpiece in four different modes: digital macrophotography, digital macro infrared (IR photography, infrared reflectography (IRR), or X-radiography.

Data visualization mapping the relationships among artists represented in the MoMA exhibition Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925. Vectors connect individuals whose acquaintance with one another during these years could be documented.

The Mapping Gothic France project was initiated by Stephen Murray, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Andrew Tallon, Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College and funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The site contains floor plans, images, 360-degree panoramas, stereoscopic images, laserscan images, and gigapixel images of Gothic architecture in France.

Smithsonian 3D model of the statue of Vairochana, the Cosmic Buddha.