Digital Humanities Tools

EXMARaLDA is a system for working with oral corpora on a computer. It consists of a transcription and annotation tool (Partitur-Editor), a tool for managing corpora (Corpus-Manager) and a query and analysis tool (EXAKT). Works with audio or video.

OHMS is an open source, web-based application designed to improve the user experience you provide for oral history, no matter what CMS or repository you use.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder.

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Take control of your research photos with Tropy, a tool that shortens the path from finding archival sources to writing about them. Spend more time using your research photos, and less time searching for them.

Google Docs Dictation lets you transform speech in any language to typed text. This can help you provide a transcription of audio and video.

AudiAnnotate is a project to publish and share annotations on audio files.

Use this API to pull information or images from DPLA.

FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents on-line. It's easy to index and annotate subjects within a text using a simple, wiki-like mark-up. Users can discuss difficult writing or obscure words within a page to refine their transcription. The resulting text is hosted on the web, making documents easy to read and search.

A-Frame is a web framework for building virtual reality (VR) experiences and is based on top of HTML, making it simple to get started.

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Unity is a powerful cross-platform 3D engine and a user friendly development environment.