Digital Humanities

Create stunning designs and speed documentation work with productivity tools in AutoCAD and other AutoDesk software. Work across integrated desktop, cloud, and mobile solutions. Learn more with UTEP Technology Support.

Manage your 3D assets. Distribute 3D & AR experiences. Collaborate with others. Showcase your work.

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A web archiving service that creates an interactive copy of any web page that you browse, including content revealed by your interactions such as playing video and audio, scrolling, clicking buttons, and so forth.

Documenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content.

A free, mobile, and open source platform built with and for Indigenous communities to manage and share digital cultural heritage that respects and enacts cultural protocols.

Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.

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

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.

The Generative AI Product Tracker lists generative AI products that are either marketed specifically towards postsecondary faculty or students or appear to be actively in use by postsecondary faculty or students for teaching, learning, or research activities. The Tracker is a living document, which is updated regularly as new products enter the market or new information about existing products becomes available.

UTEP has designated Microsoft Copilot Chat as its sole authorized AI tool due to its integration of GPT-4 technology and adherence to Microsoft’s rigorous data protection standards. This ensures that UTEP’s information remains confidential and is not used for AI training purposes.

A qualitative data analysis package, Atlas.ti helps researchers to organize and analyze complex textual and multimedia data. The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange thousands of pieces of information, accommodating a wide range of research methods.

The complete developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software.

Colab is a hosted Jupyter Notebook service that requires no setup to use and provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs. Colab is especially well suited to machine learning, data science, and education.

A powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Recogito is an online platform for collaborative document annotation. Recogito provides a personal workspace where you can upload, collect and organize your source materials - texts, images and tabular data - and collaborate in their annotation and interpretation. Recogito helps you to make your work more visible on the Web more easily, and to expose the results of your research as Open Data.

A free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online.

GitHub Pages allows you to host a site directly from a GitHub repository for free. It is a great option for sites built with Wax or Jekyll, or coded by hand.

Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.

New Art City is a virtual gallery & exhibition toolkit for digital art. You can use New Art City to create 3D virtual environments, and export the exhibits you build on the platform to standalone sites for sharing and archiving.

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

A minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility. Our underlying technology is made to learn and to teach, and can produce beautifully rendered, high-quality image collections and scholarly exhibits.

Adobe Creative Cloud gives users access to a collection of Adobe applications for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, and more. Learn more with UTEP Technology Support.

A tool for making interactive web maps. Learn more with UTEP Technology Support.

A set of open source tools to facilitate online storytelling, maintained by the Knight Lab at Northwestern University. These tools are lightweight and relatively easy to incorporate into most websites. King Library has used StoryMapJS and TimelineJS in a variety of contexts, and is able to provide support for these tools.

uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.

QGIS (previously known as Quantum GIS) is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.

A free tool to help you tell location-based stories on the web that can include images, videos, text, and more.

Audacity is an open source tool for audio recording and production. It is particularly well-suited for podcasting, but can support music production as well.

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

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.

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.

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

Mediathread is an innovative platform built by the Columbia CTL that supports collaborative multimedia analysis.

Open-source, web based, multi-window image viewing platform with the ability to zoom, display, compare and annotate images from around the world.

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.

A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.

Recogito is an online platform for collaborative document annotation. Recogito provides a personal workspace where you can upload, collect and organize your source materials - texts, images and tabular data - and collaborate in their annotation and interpretation. Recogito helps you to make your work more visible on the Web more easily, and to expose the results of your research as Open Data.

SoundCite is a simple-to-use tool that lets you add inline audio to your story. The audio is not isolated; it plays right under the text you choose.

Create interactive experiences that engage, and track results in real time. Easy to use multimedia editor and scenario builder.

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.

Drupal is an open source content management system for supporting resources like blogs and web sites.

Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.

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

Recogito is an online platform for collaborative document annotation. Recogito provides a personal workspace where you can upload, collect and organize your source materials - texts, images and tabular data - and collaborate in their annotation and interpretation. Recogito helps you to make your work more visible on the Web more easily, and to expose the results of your research as Open Data.

Shiny is an open source R package that provides an elegant and powerful web framework for building web applications using R. Shiny helps you turn your analyses into interactive web applications without requiring HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge.

The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPor) is a collection of tools for text analysis. Its curated lists can be helpful in identifying recommended tools for specific tasks. TAPoR is a gateway to free online tools for sophisticated text analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.

a web-based text-analysis tool

Hypothesis enables students to collaborate and engage directly with course content through social annotation, boosting academic success and participation.

Notion is like a set of building blocks for creating things you love to use on your computer, such as: Documents, Databases, Public websites, Knowledge bases, Project management systems, notes, etc. Think of it as an online workspace where you can also build and organize it as you want.

Capture, organize and tackle your to-dos from anywhere. Productivity manager

Zotero is a free, open source utility that works in the Firefox browser to help users collect, manage and cite sources. It was developed at George Mason University.

Subscribed to by the Library: students, faculty and staff have permanent access to their RefWorks account that can assist you in organizing your research citations, just like Zotero! View this guide to see how to sign up and start using your account. Talk to a librarian for assistance with this tool.

Juncture is a free-to-use, open source framework for converting simple text files into an engaging visual essay. A visual essay is an interactive and responsive web page that augments a text narrative with visual elements to provide depth and context.

The primary purpose for OHMS is to empower users to more effectively and efficiently discover information in an oral history interview online by connecting the user from a search result to the corresponding moment in an interview.

A free tool to help you tell location-based stories on the web that can include images, videos, text, and more.

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.

More than a hypertext story creator, Twine is capable of just about anything a web browser can do.

A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.

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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.

Mallet is a machine learning software program that is used through the command line with Python. Though it requires some technical skill to install and run, it can produce powerful results by generating “topics,” or lists of words that frequently appear together in corpora.

Recogito is an online platform for collaborative document annotation. Recogito provides a personal workspace where you can upload, collect and organize your source materials - texts, images and tabular data - and collaborate in their annotation and interpretation. Recogito helps you to make your work more visible on the Web more easily, and to expose the results of your research as Open Data.

Transkribus enables you to automatically recognise text easily, edit seamlessly, collaborate effortlessly, and even train your custom AI for digitizing and interpreting historical documents of any form.

A free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online.

Free Timeline allows you to create, save, and share timelines free. No signup is required to make a timeline and the drag and drop interface is easy to use.

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.

Free timeline creation tool that has a limited number of features and allows you only to include pictures and text, but it is easy to use and a free option is available.

The premise of DM is simple: if you have a collection of digital images and texts, then you should be able to develop a project where you can identify specific moments on these images and texts, annotate them as much as you want, link them together, generate searchable content, collaborate with your friends, and publish your work online for others to see and share.

A light-weight, open source tool specifically designed to create digital editions from XML-encoded texts, freeing the scholar from the burden of web programming and enabling the final user to browse, explore, and study digital editions by means of a user-friendly interface.

A web-based tool for visualizing complex historical data with ease using maps, network graphs, and other forms of reading and analyzing data.

Photogrammar provides a web-based visualization platform for exploring the 170,000 photographs taken by the FSA and OWI agencies of the U.S. Federal Government between 1935 and 1943.

A free platform to publicly share and explore data visualizations online.

Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps, images and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.

Netlify is a framework-agnostic composable platform that empowers enterprises and cross-functional teams to build high-performing modern web experiences that can scale, innovate, and ship to production faster.

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

Provides affordable web-hosting that faculty and students own and control. Includes a free website domain name, great user support, and one-click install of a number of digital humanities platforms.

A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital, multimodal scholarship online, enabling users to assemble media and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of interactive ways.

More than a hypertext story creator, Twine is capable of just about anything a web browser can do.

A massively popular open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

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