Datasets for Digital Research
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Datasets for Digital Research (UNT Libraries)Datasets, including OCR text collections, created by UNT Digital Libraries that are freely available to researchers.
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Datasets for Digital Research (MSU Libraries)Datasets made available by MSU Libraries. Note: Not all datasets are open to non-MSU users, but several are.
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DocSouth DataDoc South Data provides access to some of the Documenting The American South collections in formats that work well with common text mining and data analysis tools.
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JSTOR Data for ResearchDefine and request datasets for content on JSTOR, or download a sample dataset for teaching text mining techniques.
Digital Scholarship Library Guides
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Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship LibguideCollege of Saint Benedict-St. John's University
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Digital Humanities Literacy GuidebookCarnegie Mellon University
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Digital Scholarship: Online Tools & Resources (FIU)Florida International University
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Digital Scholarship at LMULoyola Marymount University
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What is Digital Scholarship?Guilford College
Books in UNT Libraries
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Algorithms of Oppression
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Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018ISBN: 9781479837243Publication Date: 2018-02-20 -
The Culture of Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries
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Call Number: ZA4080 .C84 2019ISBN: 0838918972Publication Date: 2019 -
Debates in the Digital Humanities
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Call Number: AZ182 .D44 2012ISBN: 9780816677948Publication Date: 2012-01-09 -
Defining Digital Humanities
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Call Number: AZ195 .D543 2013ISBN: 1409469638Publication Date: 2013-12-23 -
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Digital Humanities in the Library
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Call Number: Z675.H86 D54 2015ISBN: 0838987672Publication Date: 2015-04-01 -
Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research
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Call Number: AZ186 .D55 2020ebISBN: 9781783748402Publication Date: 2020-01-15 -
Open Praxis, Open Access: Digital Scholarship in Action
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Call Number: Z286.O63 O68 2020ebISBN: 9780838918982Publication Date: 2020-07-14 -
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Oral History and Digital Humanities
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Call Number: D16.14 .O7326 2014ISBN: 9781137322005Publication Date: 2014-12-17 -
Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities
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Call Number: AZ195 .R47 2015ISBN: 9780226176550Publication Date: 2015-01-19 -
The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities
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Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities
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Shaping the Digital Dissertation
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Call Number: LB2369 .S52 2021ISBN: 9781800640986Publication Date: 2021-04-15
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Free Resources and Tools
This is an index of resources and tools for digital scholarship projects.
Inclusion of tools on this list does not indicate the endorsement of the UNT Libraries. We can offer consultation on integrating these tools into the classroom or using them in your research, but we do not provide technical support or hosting for these tools.
Please contact the Digital Scholarship Committee at the UNT Libraries for more information.
Campus Resources
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Software Carpentry
Software Carpentry is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching students and professionals the basics of programming so they can excel in the workplace. They operate workshops at universities worldwide, including UNT.
Tutorials and Online Coursebooks
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Digital Research Tools (DiRT) Directoryis a registry of digital humanities tools maintained by an international volunteer community of professors, students, and librarians. Use it for discovering and comparing tools for your DH project or scholarly workflow.
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Intro to Digital Humanities (UCLA Center for Digital Humanities)Based on the Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH101) course at UCLA, taught by Johanna Drucker (with David Kim) in 2011 and 2012, this online coursebook (and related collection of resources) is meant to provide introductory materials to digital approaches relevant to a wide range of disciplines. The lessons and tutorials assume no prior knowledge or experience and are meant to introduce fundamental skills and critical issues in digital humanities.
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The Programming HistorianWe publish novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.
User Guides
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Digital Scholarship 101: Six Tools to Get You StartedFrom Library of Congress Labs and prepared by Eileen Jakeway, this guide lists notable tools in Digital Scholarship. This resource also features short how-to instructions for using Zotero, Voyant Tools, Hypothes.is, Google My Maps, and TimelineJS.
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Teaching with Discord: A Beginner’s Guide (Written by a Beginner)Dr. Mark Bresnan of CSU details his experience incorporating Discord in his literature courses for Pedagogy & American Literary Studies.
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Twine Cookbook User GuideThe Twine Cookbook is a resource guide providing documentation, examples, and tips for using Twine.
Cloud-Based Online Tools
DataBasic.io Suite
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DataBasicDataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. These simple tools make it easy to work with data in fun ways, so you can learn how to find great stories to tell.
DH Box
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DH Box (SUNY Graduate Center)DHbox provides a digital humanities laboratory in the cloud through simple sign-in via a web browser. The DHbox platform comes pre-equipped with essential DH tools: IPython, RStudio, Omeka, and NLTK.
Scalar
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ScalarScalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.
Twine
Collaboration and Social Communication
Discord
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DiscordDiscord is an online platform for communities, organizations, and groups. Most known for gaming and streams, Discord allows users to communicate via text and voice chat functions in public or invite-only servers. Access is free and available via browser, desktop app, and mobile app.
Textual Analysis
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Hypothes.isA free web-based annotation tool for collaborative annotation of texts, websites, news articles, or other digital content.
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Juxta CommonsJuxta Commons is a web-based platform for this text analysis tool that is also available as a stand-alone tool, Juxta. This is collation software that visualizes the differences between versions of texts.
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ReaduxReadux offers a web-based space to engage with digitized print materials. With Readux, you can:
Import materials and organize them into collections.
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TAPoR ToolsTAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) offers a suite of different tools for text analysis. When a user visits a page for any one of the tools they get a bit of data about the tool, including “ease of use” and “type of analysis.”
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Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts. One simply copies or uploads plain text to the interface and is then presented with a configurable “skin” with an handful of word-frequency-based analyses all rolled up together. -
Voyant Tools Help GuideThis guide for Voyant Tools includes information for users on how to utilize this web-based software to analyze text.
Exhibits and Content Managment
ArcGIS StoryMaps
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ArcGIS StoryMapsCreate inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world.
Omeka
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Omeka.net
Omeka.net is web-publishing platform that allows anyone with an account to create or collaborate on a website to display collections and build digital exhibitions.
Timeline JS
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Timeline JS
TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS's core functionality.
Computation and Programming
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IP[y]: iPython Interactive Computing
IPython provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with:
* A powerful interactive shell
* A kernel for Jupyter
* Support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits
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RStudioRStudio develops free and open tools for the R community and enterprise-ready professional products for teams to scale and share work.
Databases & Research Tools
The databases in the boxes below are accessible to UNT faculty, staff, and students through the Libraries website at the links below. You may be asked to log in with your EUID and password to access the contents of these databases.
Digital Collections and Libraries
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PALMM Textual CollectionsPublication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship. PALMM projects create high-quality virtual collections relevant to the students, research community and general citizenry of Florida. These collections touch on specific topics, such as aerial photography of Florida, modern Italian art, historical legal documents from Florida, digital oral history programs, among other unique collections.
Hathi Trust
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Hathi TrustHathi Trust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to preserve and make accessible the cultural record. Hathi has digitized and made accessible millions of books and serials in the public domain. To access additional materials and resources: 1) Click 'login', 2) Select 'University of North Texas', 3) Select 'Continue' 4) Enter your EUID and password, 5) Select 'login'
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC)
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HathiTrust Research CenterThe HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus. It is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with HathiTrust, to help meet the technical challenges researchers face when dealing with massive amounts of digital text. It develops cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.
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HTRC: Examples & Use CaseExamples of some of the research projects done through the HathiTrust Research Center
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HTRC Extracted Features Use Cases & ExamplesExamples of projects done using the HathiTrust Research Center's Extracted Features Dataset.
Data Management
Constellate
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ConstellateConstellate is a new text and data analytics service and pedagogy platform from ITHAKA (JSTOR) and Portico for learning and performing text analysis, building datasets, and sharing analytics course materials.
DMPTool
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DMPTool
The DMPTool provides detailed guidance and links to general and institutional resources and walks a researcher through the process of generating a comprehensive plan tailored to specific DMP requirements.
See our Data Management Guide for more information on using DMPTool or for a data management consultation.
GitHub
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GitHub
GitHub is a collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects. Public projects are always free.
Open Refine
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Open Refine
Open Refine is a tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.
Platforms and Software
Gelphi
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GephiGephi is more advanced than the “paste and play” tools above (Juxta Commons and Voyant), but it is less-advanced than MALLET (below). This is a visualization tool designed to reveal networks based on connections (“edges”) between points of reference (“nodes”).
MALLET
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MALLET (MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit)MALLET (Machine Learning for Language Toolkit) is an advanced tool that allows one to apply various machine learning applications to text(s). Although this is an advanced tool designed for ingesting and crunching large amounts of data, it is open-source and amply documented if you, gentle reader, want to dive in and start exploring.
Journals
Humanities
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Digital humanities quarterly: DHQ
Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) -
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Formerly Literary & linguistic computing (LLC). DSH is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the field of what is currently called the Digital Humanities. -
EBR: Electronic Book Review
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Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship
Unbound publishes work that explores the interstices of digital scholarship, broadly conceived, with an emphasis on digital cultural studies; critical digital humanities; libraries, archives, and museums; the interpretive social sciences; and socially engaged computational or quantitative methods.
Technology
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Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
Digital Studies / Le champ numérique is a refereed academic journal that serves as an Open Access area for formal scholarly activity and as a resource for researchers in the Digital Humanities. It is published for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations under the direction of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) by the Open Library of the Humanities. -
Hybrid Pedagogy
Hybrid Pedagogy is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education. -
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Kairos is a refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Since its first issue in January of 1996, the mission of Kairos has been to publish scholarship that examines digital and multimodal composing practices, promoting work that enacts its scholarly argument through rhetorical and innovative uses of new media.
Further Reading
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"Digital Humanities Centers: Loci for Digital Scholarship"by Diane M. Zorich, in Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation, A one-day symposium co-sponsored by CLIR and the National Endowment for the Humanities, September 15, 2008: Washington, DC.
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Bryan Sinclair, "The University Library as Incubator for Digital Scholarship" (2014)By leveraging technology, we can open new doors to scholarly inquiry for ourselves and our students. Through new collaborations, we can create exciting shared spaces, both virtual and physical, where that inquiry can take place. The library is a natural home for these technology-rich spaces.
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Center for Networked Information (CNI) Topics: Digital HumanitiesCNI has worked with partners since its founding to ensure that attention is paid to the needs of researchers in digital humanities and has made the work of many digital humanities projects more widely known. CNI also addresses collaboration issues, including those that support projects developed jointly by scholars, librarians, and others in digital scholarship centers.
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CH Working PapersCH Working Papers (or Computing in the Humanities Working Papers) are an interdisciplinary series of refereed publications on computer-assisted research. They are a vehicle for an intermediary stage at which questions of computer methodology in relation to the corpus at hand are of interest to the scholar before the computer disappears into the background.
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The Digital Humanities, Educause Review, 49(3), May/June 2014Special issue edited by Clifford Lynch, Michael Roy, and David M. Berry
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Digital Scholarship & Digital Studies: The State of the DisciplineKirschenbaum, Matthew and Sara Werner. "Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline." Book History. Volume 17, 2014.
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Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center? An OCLC Research Report by: Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, OCLC ResearchOCLC Research Report by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway.
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Research 4.0: Research in the Age of Automation (2020)Proctor, R; Glover, B.; Jones, E., Research 4.0: Research in the Age of Automation, Demos, 2020
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Topic Modeling Made Just Simple EnoughBlog posting on Ted Underwood's The Stone and the Shell site explaining the basics of topic modeling as a DH metholodology