Below are links to the tools, data, instructions, and examples I mentioned in my talk on building digital humanities projects, given at SUNY New Paltz on December 3rd in the Honors College.
Digital Archives:
Tool: Omeka: https://www.omeka.net/
Data: “Civil Rights—A Long Road”: http://tinyurl.com/civilrightsimg
Instructions: http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/up-and-running-with-omeka
Example: 19th Century Disability Studies: http://www.nineteenthcenturydisability.org/
Digital Editions:
Tool: Juxta Editions: http://www.juxtaeditions.com/
Data: The Strand Magazine: https://archive.org/details/StrandMagazine9
and Sherlock Holmes full text: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/plain-text/advs.txt
Instructions: http://sherlockholmeslondondh.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/juxta/
Example: “The Five Orange Pips”: https://www.juxtaeditions.com/documents/304
Distant Reading:
Tool: Topic Modeling Tool: https://topic-modeling-tool.googlecode.com/files/TopicModelingTool.jar
Data: State of the Union addresses: http://tinyurl.com/stateofunionzip
Instructions: http://sherlockholmeslondondh.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/topic-modeling/
Example: Mining the Dispatch: http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/
Visualizations:
Tools: Voyant: http://voyant-tools.org/
Data: “Scandal in Bohemia”: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/plain-text/scan.txt
Tool: Google Fusion: http://tables.googlelabs.com/
Data: NCES Education Data (2013): https://inventory.data.gov/dataset/032e19b4-5a90-41dc-83ff-6e4cd234f565/resource/38625c3d-5388-4c16-a30f-d105432553a4
Instructions (for Fusion): https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/184641?hl=en
Example: https://sites.google.com/site/fusiontablestalks/stories
GIS:
Tool: Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps
Instructions: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3045850?hl=en
Example: Mapping Ulysses: https://sites.google.com/site/notesonjamesjoyce/map