Free Digital History Tools

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Archival Research & Citations

Data Preparation

• Tropy (archival images organizer)
• Zotero (citation manager)

• Open Refine (data cleaning)
• Tabula (extracting tables from PDFs)​

Data Visualization

Mapping

• Datawrapper (maps, tables, and charts)
• Palladio (complex historical data visualizations)
• Tableau Public (elaborate, interactive visualizations)

• Carto (free to students via the Github Developer Pack)
• StoryMapJS (simple maps with descriptions)
• QGIS (sophisticated maps)

Network Analysis

Textual Analysis & Visualization

• Cytoscape (network data integration)
• Gephi (network exploration and visualization)
• Kumu (organization of complex relationships)
• Onodo (simple network analysis)

• MALLET (sophisticated topic modeling)
• Transkribus (text recognition and transcription)​​
• Voyant Tools (explore plain text and PDF files)​​

Presentation Tools

Publishing Platforms

• ArcGIS StoryMaps (tours, timelines, and overviews)
• Canva (posters, documents, and logos)
• Piktochart (infographs, charts)
• TimelineJS (simple interactive timelines)

• GitHub Pages (websites with GitHub integration)
• Omeka (exhibit publishing platform)
• Scalar (multi-media scholarly publishing)
• Weebly, Wix, WordPress (websites and blogs)