blogs@NTU

Screenshot of blogs@NTU website

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Exploring Digital Humanities

Description

blogs@NTU is a WordPress-based service by NTU Libraries to provide a campus-wide blogging and publishing platform for the Nanyang Technological University community. Blogs can be used for a multitude of purposes – disseminate and showcase your research, provide engaging learning opportunities, promote programmes or events, interact with a global community, and countless other possibilities. Faculty, students and administrative staff can request for a blog to support their teaching, research, marketing or community-building activities.

Creator

NTU Libraries, Nanyang Technological University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Digital publishing

Screenshots of Platform

Dashboard – Manage profile, media, posts, projects, links, comments and pages

Edit Post

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Omeka

Screenshot of Omeka website

Demo

Battersea Arts Centre and Battersea Town Hall’s Collection

Description

Omeka is a content management system designed for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Omeka allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects. (Source)

Creator

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Digital publishing

Screenshots of Platform

Omeka’s Dashboard – Manage all information

Adding a Collection – Use tags to organize similar items into categories

Managing Items – Data management

Managing Navigation – by ordering, editing, and adding navigation links, and by selecting a homepage.

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Scalar

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Demo

Pathfinders – Experience of early digital literature

Description

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. Scalar can also be used to assemble and annotate video content, and combine in with text to create a rich media document. (Source)

Creator

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC)

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Digital publishing, Annotation

Screenshots of Platform

Scalar’s built-in media annotation tools

Media importer – Broad support for popular media formats

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Silk

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Description

Silk is a platform for sites that contain collections of information. It’s like the Tumblr for websites that have structured content–like software reviews, information about designers, a site with UN datasets, and more. When you have created your site (manually or by uploading one or more datasets), you can visualize and filter your data in a few ways. You can create graphs if your pages contain numbers, maps if you have locations, and filtered tables for just about anything. These visualizations and tables are interactive: anyone can play around with the variables to get the answer they need from the data. (Source)

Creator

Silk

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Mapping, Visualisation, Digital publishing

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