Digital tools, services, and other resources suggested here are candidates for inclusion in the Literature+ course Toy Chest of online or downloadable, free or low-cost (or with free trial-period) tools that can be used by humanists (especially, but not exclusively, literary scholars) to create interesting projects. After being researched/vetted, candidate tools may be added to the Toy Chest.
Students are encouraged to add candidate tools here and to draw from this list items for their Annotated Bibliography assignment.
Other Tool Indexes or Guides
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Name (embed URL in link) | Description | Suggested By | Date Suggested |
Digital Research Tools Wiki |
Well-stocked, briefly annotated lists of tools kept by Lisa Spiro, director of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education and also keeper of the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog. Tool categories include:
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Alan | 2012-02-19 |
Heurist | list of various tools | Alan | 2010-01-08 |
Humanities Visualization (Humviz) tools | tools developed by the Experimental Reading Workshop collective in Canada |
Alan |
2012-03-05 |
Digital Textuality course tool resources | Tools collected and annotated by students in Kim Knight's "Digital Textuality" course at U. Texas, Austin. (includes text, data visualization, sound, and image resources) |
Alan | 2012-03-05 |
The Oral Historian's Toolbox | Tools collected by the Oral History Program at Concordia University. Includes tools in the areas of indexing and databases, online content management and delivery, digital storytelling, GIS, voice to text, audio and video editing, apps, augmented reality, quantitative analysis, and social media. | Alan | 2012-03-05 |
Other Tools
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Name (embed URL in link) | Type | Description | Suggested By | Date Suggested |
Simulated Environment for TheatreThe Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET) is a 3D environment for reading, exploring, and directing plays. |
Alan |
2012-03-05 |
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Watching the ScriptWatching the Script is an environment for watching and blocking plays textually. |
Alan |
2012-03-05 |
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Mandala BrowserThe Mandala Browser is a flexible data browser for nuanced criteria. |
Alan |
2012-03-05 |
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Delegate BrowserThe Delegate Browser is a rich-prospect browser for conference attendees. |
Alan |
2012-03-05 |
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Tagul |
Word cloud generator with interesting options. | Alan |
2012-03-05 |
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