Digital Scholarship at the Main Library offers consultation and instruction, with a focus on:
- Quantitative approaches to texts, corpora building/analysis, language variation and change
- Best practices for working with, organizing, and preserving your humanities data
- Text encoding and digital scholarly editing
The Data Cooperative also helps with digital humanities project management, as well as connecting you to other related services, including:
Commonly used software (all free to use)
OpenRefine
Open-source text and data cleaning software.
Voyant Tools
Web-based text reading and analysis environment, designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices both at a distance and close up.
AntConc
Free-to-use concordance software for analyzing collections of language at scale.
Collection Builder
Open-source website builder for creating digital collection and exhibition websites based on metadata and powered by modern static web technology.
Gephi
Open-source software for generating network visualizations.
GeoBrowser
Extract geocoded data, including location names and/or addresses (individually or in bulk, via reconciliation services)
Tutorials
Programming Historian
Open-access tutorials that teach digital tools and methods for humanities research.
Intro to Cultural Analytics with Python
Online workbook for Python that is specifically designed for those interested in the humanities and social sciences.
The Carpentries
Free materials and workshops for Python and R programming (Software Carpentry), database and visualization applications in multiple disciplines, including sociology and ecology (Data Carpentry), and data wrangling tools like OpenRefine (Library Carpentry).
TEI: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
An international and interdisciplinary standard for making digital editions.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
Free MIT course that teaches essential software tools and practices that computer science education often skips, such as shell, editors, version control, and debugging.
Resources
Tons of data already exist and are ready for your analysis, and they live in all sorts of places.
A-Z databases
The University of Arizona Libraries provide many databases with primary and secondary sources. Explore ProQuest, Gale, and Adam Matthew AM Explorer to get the full extent of our resources, or try your own keywords.
Internet Archive
Find OCRed material printed before the mid-1920s. Sometimes full text images are also available for download too.
HathiTrust
The library is a member of HathiTrust, which offers a wide view of the history of printed text, primarily in English, but also in German, French, Spanish, and Russian, among over 400 other languages. HathiTrust offers both fictional and non-ficitonal writing, from early novels to present-day works, and a very robust collection of government documents from their partner institutions.
Awesome Digital History
Starter guide for working with primary/secondary sources for digital History.
English Corpora
Large collection of monitor corpora for exploration created by Brigham Young University. Log in with your UA NetID to download the complete corpus of Contemporary American English in three formats.
Social Explorer
Explore, visualize, and analyze census, demographic, and geospatial data.
ICPSR Data
Digital behavioral and social science data archive provided by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
About Creative Commons Licenses
Guide for understanding citational practice provided by the University of Arizona Libraries.
Find and use open educational resources (OER)
Locate OER and other free or low-cost course materials at the University of Arizona.
Digital Scholarship Tools: Accessibility and Usability
Tools and resources to get you started on your digital scholarship projects provided by the University of Washington.
Tips for Inclusive and Accessible Classrooms
Accessibility best practices provided by the University of Arizona's Disability Resource Center.
Digital Humanities Slack
A digital humanities community for additional help and outreach.
