Research + Tools
Developing publications and applications to define digital humanities for a new generation of scholars, librarians and museum professionals.
Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
Omeka
Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is a platform for publishing online collections and exhibitions.
Text Mining
Beginning in June 2008, CHNM will conduct a two-year study of advanced text-mining technology for the humanities.
ScholarPress
Manage your class, publish research, or collaborate on a conference presentation through this hub for scholarly and educational WordPress plugins.
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
This book offers a plainspoken introduction to producing online historical work.
THATCamp
Short for “The Humanities and Technology Camp," THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities.
Essays on History + New Media
Read essays devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects of taking history into a digital format.
CHNM Labs, Research + Tools
CHNM is developing and testing innovative ideas all the time. CHNM Labs provides a showcase for this important research and development work.
Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies
Four essays offer contrasting approaches to using digital media for scholarly presentations.
Blogs + Podcasts
Many CHNM staff members maintain blogs related to digital history, teaching, museums, web technologies, and other topics of interest to digital historians.
One Week One Tool
One Week | One Tool is a unique summer institute, one that aims to teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for humanities scholarship by actually building a tool, from inception to launch, in a week.
PressForward
PressForward is to explore and produce the best means for collecting, screening, and drawing attention to the vast expanse of scholarship that is currently decentralized across the web or does not fit into traditional genres such as the journal article or the monograph
History Departments Around the World
This searchable database links to over 1,200 history departments around the world.
History News Network
HNN is a web-based magazine that features articles by historians of all political persuasions.
ECHO
ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry.
Timeline Builder
CHNM Labs: Easily create and manage a timeline of historical events for your website.
Web Scrapbook
Store all kinds of media items — URLs, images, text, and movies — and collaborate with others with the CHNM online scrapbook.
