DH tools at RUB

Software Licenses at RUB related to Digital Humanities

  • eScriptorium: open-source platform for the transcription and analysis of handwritten documents, featuring advanced tools for researchers in paleography and textual studies.
  • HedgeDoc: collaboration platform for simultaneous document editing in real time, providing a user-friendly environment for text editing.
  • JupyterHub: platform for collaborative programming, documentation, learning, and visualization of data with Jupyter Notebooks. Kernels are available for a variety of programming languages.
  • Reference Management with Citavi, Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero or LaTeX: the University Library offers Training courses and detailed information on software solutions for literature management, citation, and knowledge organization.
  • Nodegoat: data management tool for analyzing and visualizing complex information, providing a flexible structure for database development and research.
  • OriginPro: application for statistical analysis, graph, and chart creation. The software has a graphical user interface and various programming interfaces.
  • Skosmos: system for managing and publishing thesauri. It provides a user-friendly interface for exploring and visualizing concept hierarchies in controlled vocabularies.
  • VocBench: platform for the collaborative management of ontologies and thesauri. Enables the creation, editing, and adaptation of controlled vocabularies in a shared working environment.

 

Software Stack for Digital Textual Editions

For the sustainable publication of digital editions, we provide a standardized workflow with a proven software stack consisting of the following components:

Textual Editing: the researchers work on their edition using the Oxygen XML Editor, which supports TEI formats. The data is available on our rented servers in the XML-based database existDB. With the TEI Publisher plugin, the edition can be presented as a web application.

Image Data: we upload the digitized material to our minIO service. With Cantaloupe, the image material is available as a IIIF interface.

  • Cantaloupe: dynamic online viewer for high-resolution images with a wide range of functions, IIIF Image API compliant.
  • eXist-db: native open source database for efficient and scalable storage, retrieval, and manipulation of XML documents.
  • TEI-Publisher: framework for publishing TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoded documents, offering comprehensive formatting and customization features for creating structured scientific content.
  • MinIO: storage system for unstructured data, compatible with Amazon S3. Well suited for large amounts of data, can be operated in different server environments.
  • Oxygen XML Editor: comprehensive, cross-platform XML editor that enables efficient creation, editing, and validation of XML documents. Supports various languages and standards.

 

Laptops with special Software for Digital Humanities

Laptops with special software that you can book for your projects.

  • AntConc: corpus analysis toolkit (search with regular expressions in text corpora).
  • DB Browser (SQLite): editor and browser for SQLite databases.
  • Docker Desktop and Windows Subsystem für Linux: enables the execution of Linux program packages encapsulated in containers.
  • Graphviz: define graphs with markdown and display them as images.
  • ImageMagick: command line application for image conversion and editing.
  • OpenRefine: tool for cleaning and transforming of heterogenous data.
  • Orange: data visualization, machine learning and data mining toolkit.
  • Oxygen XML Editor: comprehensive, cross-platform XML editor that enables efficient creation, editing, and validation of XML documents. Supports various languages and standards.
  • Poemage: visualization system for exploring the sonic topology of a poem.
  • RStudio + R: integrated development environment (IDE) and programming language for statistical computing and data visualization.
  • Scan Tailor: interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.
  • Visual Studio Code: integrated development environment (IDE).

Please note:

Once per year, users of the above-mentioned systems must confirm to the DHC that their account is still required. If this confirmation is not provided, the respective account will be deleted two months after the request. Researchers and their PIs are responsible for ensuring that any necessary data are backed up elsewhere before accounts are deleted. The DHC at RUB assumes no liability in this regard.