DH tools at RUB
Software Licenses at RUB related to Digital Humanities
- ArcGIS Online: online geoinformation system for analyzing and processing all types of geodata.
- eScriptorium: open-source platform for the transcription and analysis of handwritten documents, featuring advanced tools for researchers in paleography and textual studies.
- RUB service (An account is required. Simply request one via dh-center-team@rub.de)
- GitLab repository
- GitTower Pro: Git client.
- 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.
- LimeSurvey: creation and statistical analysis of surveys.
- 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.
- MAXQDA: support in analyzing interviews, texts, and media such as image, audio, and video files.
- MindManager: tool for creating mind maps that can be combined with graphics and diagrams, including a Gantt view.
- Nodegoat: data management tool for analyzing and visualizing complex information, providing a flexible structure for database development and research.
- RUB service (An account is required. Simply request one via dh-center-team@rub.de)
- project website
- OriginPro: application for statistical analysis, graph, and chart creation. The software has a graphical user interface and various programming interfaces.
- Qtiplot: software for analyzing and visualizing data, similar to Origin.
- Skosmos: system for managing and publishing thesauri. It provides a user-friendly interface for exploring and visualizing concept hierarchies in controlled vocabularies.
- SPSS: package for statistical analysis, widely used in the social sciences.
- VocBench: platform for the collaborative management of ontologies and thesauri. Enables the creation, editing, and adaptation of controlled vocabularies in a shared working environment.
- RUB service (An account is required. Simply request one via dh-center-team@rub.de)
- project website
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.
- RUB service (An account is required. Simply request one via dh-center-team@rub.de)
- project website
- 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.
- Anaconda/Python: programming and software library for Python.
- AntConc: corpus analysis toolkit (search with regualar expressions in text corpora).
- Audacity: audio editing software.
- Blender: software for 3d modelling and animations.
- Collatex: software for comparing texts.
- CorpusExplorer: corpus analysis, text and data mining.
- 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.
- Gephi: tool to visualize data as graphs.
- GIMP: image-processing application.
- GitHub Desktop/Git GUI/Git Bash: user-friendly connection to GitHub version control.
- Graphviz: define graphs with markdown and display them as images.
- ImageMagick: command line application for image conversion and editing.
- LancsBox: language analysis tool.
- 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.
- Protege: ontology editor and framework.
- QGIS Desktop: geographic information system.
- RStudio + R: integrated development environment (IDE) and programming language for statistical computing and data visualization.
- Scan Tailor: interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.
- scilab: software for numerical computation.
- TeXworks / MiKTeX Console, Textsatz: text editor and TeX typesetting system.
- Visual Studio Code: integrated development environment (IDE).
- Weka: machine learning application.
- Zoom: videoconferencing application.
- Zotero: software for literature management, citation, and knowledge organization.