DS Toolbox

http://dirtdirectory.org The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.

https://www.academia.edu/28923960/Important_New_Developments_in_Arabographic_Optical_Character_Recognition_OCR_ Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

http://www.raymondm.co.uk/ The program Kairos 4.0 is a general calendar conversion program designed to meet the needs of historians of astronomy, general historians, and anyone who needs to interpret the dates found in historical sources.

https://www.r-project.org/ R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.

https://bookdown.org/ The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown.

https://shiny.rstudio.com/ Shiny, a web application framework for R. Turn your analyses into interactive web applications. No HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge required

https://gephi.org/ Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free. Runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

https://d3js.org/ D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

http://raw.densitydesign.org/ Raw is an open web app to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing D3.js library through a simple interface. Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, Raw allows to export visualizations in vector (SVG) or raster (PNG) format and embed them in your web page.

https://github.com/mittagessen/kraken Kraken, open-source OCR program. Relies on a neural network—which mimics the way we learn—to recognize letters in the images of entire lines of text without trying first to segment lines into words and then wordsainto letters.

http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/segmenter.shtml Stanford Word Segmenter, tokenization of raw text is a standard pre-processing step for many NLP tasks. For English, tokenization usually involves punctuation splitting and separation of some affixes like possessives. Other languages require more extensive token pre-processing, which is usually called segmentation. The Stanford Word Segmenter currently supports Arabic and Chinese. The provided segmentation schemes have been found to work well for a variety of applications.

https://github.com/oracc/nammu/blob/master/README.md ORACC is the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. It provides open-access, standards-based publication platforms, research tools and teaching resources for Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern History, hosting around 40 academic research projects worldwide. NAMMU is a desktop GUI that enables ORACC content creators to edit, check and upload transliterations of Sumerian texts in the form of text files in ASCII Transliteration Format (ATF). It is being developed as a text editor with extended functionality.

https://gramps-project.org/ Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.

http://www.cytoscape.org/ Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. Cytoscape core distribution provides a basic set of features for data integration, analysis, and visualization. It supports many use cases in molecular and systems biology, genomics, and proteomics, and is used by social scientists to visualize and analyze large social networks of interpersonal realtionships.

http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/ Palladio is a product of the NEH Implementation grant (July 2013-June 2016), Networks in History: Data-driven tools for analyzing relationships across time. Our goal was to understand how to design graphical interfaces based on humanistic inquiry. We oriented the project around the development of a general-purpose suite of visualization and analytical tools based on the prototypes created for the Mapping the Republic of Letters project, which examines the scholarly communities and networks of knowledge during the period 1500-1800.

https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Google Noto Fonts. When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes characters are displayed as “tofu”. They are little boxes to indicate your device doesn’t have a font to display the text. Noto provides pan-language harmony, yet maintains authenticity. The goal is great online readability across languages without losing the character that makes each script special.

https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.

https://www.biomedware.com/?module=Page&sID=clusterseer ClusterSeer provides statistics for evaluating disease clusters in space and time.

http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html Computation of a wide variety of landscape metrics for categorical map patterns.

http://viewshare.org/ Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections.

http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/jsp/index.jsp An open software development environment for geospatial data analysis, exploratory spatial data analysis and knowledge discovery.

http://www.gslib.com/ Geostatistical software LIBrary written in Fortran

http://www.gstat.org/ Software for geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation.

http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/ Spatial Econometrics Toolbox for MATLAB. Functions implement both maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation of a host of spatial econometric models.

http://spatial-statistics.com/software_index.htm Toolbox for MATLAB and SpaceStatPack for Fortran for estimating large-scale lattice models.

http://cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial Overview of R software for spatial data handling and analysis

http://regionalanalysislab.org/index.php/Main/STARS STARS is an exploratory data analysis package designed for variables measured on geographical units over time..

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/Software.html S+ and R code from Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS.

http://www.tableau.com/ We help people see and understand their data. Eight words that drive everything we do. And they’ve never been more important.

http://www.qsrinternational.com/ NVivo is software that supports qualitative (a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, including in the social sciences and natural sciences, but also in non-academic contexts including market research, business, and service demonstrations by non-profits) and mixed methods research. It’s designed to help you organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured, or qualitative data like: interviews, open-ended survey responses, articles, social media and web content. With NVivo, your research is portable. You can work in the field, at work, at home – anywhere. NVivo also keeps your projects secure. If you want to collaborate – NVivo offers a team-based solution too.

http://www.dedoose.com/ Dedoose, cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data and so much more. Increasing numbers of researchers are crossing disciplinary boundaries and conducting more and more mixed methods research. Dedoose was designed to make this process efficient and effective in order to support the collaborative nature of modern social science research projects.

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis ArcGIS connects people with maps, data, and apps through geographic information systems (GIS). A geographic information system (GIS) lets us visualize, question, analyze, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends. It is a location platform that’s accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. You can use the ArcGIS platform to apply geography to solving problems and making decisions.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-applications-in-archaeology-and-cultural-heritage Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (DAACH) is an on-line, peer-reviewed journal in which scholars can publish 3D digital models of the world's cultural heritage sites, monuments, andpalaeoanthropological remains accompanied by associated academic articles.

http://www.digitalsculpture.org Through its Digital Sculpture Project, theVirtual World Heritage Laboratory is pioneering new solutions and applications in this important but neglected area of the digital humanities. This website is devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures. Up to now, 3D technologies have been used in fruitful ways to represent geometrically simple artifacts such as pottery or larger-scale structures such as buildings and entire cities.

thetruesize.com The True Size Of ... for anyone who wants to see what happens to countries on maps as you move them over the earth's surface.

https://www.lucidchart.com/ Lucidchart, "A flowchart maker that plays nice with others". Lucidchart is designed for the utmost compatibility with other programs, including Google Apps. We’re also the only web app to offer complete support for Microsoft Visio documents. When your work is done, export to standard file formats or publish with our convenient online viewer.

https://books.google.com/ngrams When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. For additional information see: Chris Gratien and Daniel Pontillo, “Google Ngram: an Introduction for Historians,” HAZİNE, 11 January 2014, http://hazine.info/2014/01/11/google-ngram-for-historians/