Internal Resources
Below is a list of links to DH resources available from the University of Reading.
Note that these lists are not exhaustive and will be updated as we develop the support available.
Academic Research Computing Team Services (ARC)
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Introduction to our academic computing services |
How to access and use our academic computing services |
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The Reading Research Cloud is a platform for server hosting which runs virtual machine (VMs) on University owned servers |
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The Reading Academic Computing Cluster (RACC) is a Linux cluster which provides resources for interactive research computing and batch job submissions for staff and students |
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| Accessing software on the cluster | How to access software on the cluster |
| Paid-for resources on RACC |
Research projects can purchase hardware and gain access to dedicated paid-for resources for batch computing |
| Project Support | Project Support from the Academic and Research Computing Team |
| Self Service Request Forms | Forms for requesting DTS services |
| Externally visible ssh server – arc-ssh |
arc-ssh.reading.ac.uk is an externally visible ssh server. It exists to allow access to the UoR network and Linux-related resources from off-campus.
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| WordPress websites for research groups and projects | ACT provides a WordPress environment to host your research websites |
| Web Hosting on cPanel | CPanel is a web hosting platform for static or dynamic pages mainly written in PHP with a local MySQL database. |
| A glossary of programming terms | Programming terms glossary with examples |
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Description |
| Digital Humanities Community of Practice (MS Teams) – UoR members only | DH COP for UoR community discussions: a place for colleagues to share information about work in progress, potential collaborations, events, funding opportunities and support at Reading and elsewhere. Place a join request to Olivia Thompson |
| Research Software Engineering at Reading | Community-run group covering all aspects of using IT and software.
Joining information is available on the website |
| PCLS Coding Club (MS Teams) – UoR members only | Coding club run by School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. Place a join request to Dan Brady |
| Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice (MS Teams) – UoR members only | AI Community of Practice run by the Department of Computer Science. Place a join request to Dan Brady |
Web pages
External Resources
Below is a list of links to DH resources, information, and training offered by other institutions and companies,
Note that these lists are not exhaustive and will be updated periodically. Please let us know if you have suggestions of any useful links, DH projects or resources that we could add.
General DH Tools and Software
| Name | Description | URL |
| Padlet | Make boards, documents and webpages collecting items that are easy to read and contribute to | https://en-gb.padlet.com/ |
| myExperiment | Social site for researchers to share and record projects and workflows | https://www.myexperiment.org/ |
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| Social Media Research Toolkit | 50+ tools curated by Social Media Lab at Ryerson University. Includes tools for collecting and analysing tweets and other social media data | http://socialmediadata.org/social-media-research-toolkit/ |
| Twitter APIs | Social site for researchers to share and record projects and workflows | https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/overview |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Gephi | Open-source visualization software for graphs and network analysis | https://gephi.org/ |
| Tableau Public | Free online version of Tableau for visualizing and sharing visualizations online. Can be embedded in websites | https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/ |
| Palladio | Visualisation tool for historical data | https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/ |
| Breve | Visualisation for tables to reveal mismatched and missing data at a glance | http://hdlab.stanford.edu/breve/ |
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| Amazon Mechanical Turk | Outsource small tasks to a paid workforce | https://www.mturk.com/ |
| Zooniverse | Crowdsourcing research platform for volunteers. Researchers can design and host academic projects | https://www.zooniverse.org |
Summer Schools and other courses
| Course title | Provider | Description | Date | Cost | Deadline |
| Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) | University of Oxford | Week-long summer school with a range of strands available | 3-7 July 2023 | £795* | 15 June 2023 |
| Cambridge Data Schools | University of Cambridge | Hands-on courses in ‘Cultural Heritage Data’ (for GLAM professionals) and ‘Social Data’ (for researchers developing a project | 17-18 April, 26-30 June 2023 | £695 | First come, first served |
| Digital Humanities Summer School | University of Antwerp | Computer-assisted genetic editing: from handwritten text recognition to keystroke logging | 3-7 July 2023 | 250€ | 15 April 2023 |
| 3D Summer School | School of Advanced Study | 3D Imaging and Modelling for Classics and Cultural Heritage | 24-28 July 2023 | £695 |
*Bursaries are available for UoR members of staff to attend DHOxSS, covering the registration fee plus £100 towards travel. Please contact Olivia Thompson by 30 March.
| Course title | Provider | Description | Date | Cost | Deadline |
| Introduction to Digital Humanities (MOOC) | Harvard University | Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities. | Self-paced | Free but $149 for certificate | N/A |
| Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results | Harvard University | Use code to gain insights from large volumes of documents and visualise results, work on building an academic search engine and learn the fundamentals of text analysis. | Self-paced | Free but $149 for certificate | N/A |
| Digital Humanities: Humanities Research in the Digital Age | Open University | How the digital transformation of our cultural heritage and our daily lives is changing the way humanities scholars conduct their research and share it with the world | Self-paced | Free | N/A |
| Introduction to Digital Humanities | Taylor Institution Library, Oxford | Covers basic principles of how to model Humanities material as data, and how to produce visualisations using some popular free DH tools. Course participants are invited to submit the data they create to a collaborative project. | Self-paced | Free | N/A |
| Digital Humanities Summer Institute | University of Victoria | General: surveillance and critical DH; mapping; music research; network analysis; open research; knowledge mobility; decolonisation; 3D; deep learning; text analysis + NLP; digital storytelling; community, teaching etc | 12-16 June | $50, $100 after 1 April | 5 June 2023 |
| Introducing Mapping, Spatial Data and GIS | University of Oxford | Investigate the power of maps and spatial data to document and illustrate local and global issues, applying GIS principles and tools | 19 April-30 June | £324 | Not given |
| Text Analytics with Python | University of Canterbury – edX | Introducing natural language processing, machine learning for text analytics, visualisation, topic models, ethical foundations | Self-paced | £371 | N/A |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Linked data | Linked data: guides and tutorials | http://linkeddata.org/guides-and-tutorials |
| Data Carpentry | Data Carpentry Courses | https://datacarpentry.org/ |
| DH 101 from UCLA | Introduction and tutorials on different approaches | http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/ |
Programming
| Name | Description | URL |
| Computer Hope Dictionary – Programming | Dictionary with descriptions of the function and origins of most programming languages | https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/programming-language.htm |
| W3Schools Online Tutorials | Online tutorials in a range of programming languages, as well as data analysis | https://www.w3schools.com/ |
| The Programming Historian | Collection of peer-reviewed lessons on DH approaches, in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese | https://programminghistorian.org |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Python for Beginners | Introduction to the Python language | https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/ |
| Free Code Camp | Machine learning with Python | https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/machine-learning-with-python/ |
| PerceptiLabs | Machine learning visual modelling tool | https://www.perceptilabs.com/home |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Tutorials Point | Tutorials in R, with a specific focus on statistical programming | https://www.tutorialspoint.com/r/index.htm |
| R Squared Academy | A comprehensive introduction to working with databases using R | https://blog.rsquaredacademy.com/working-with-databases-using-r/ |
| R Studio | Software and guidance for working with databases in R | https://db.rstudio.com/ |
| MainaRd | Blog post on database connections in R | https://www.mainard.co.uk/post/database-connections-in-r/ |
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| RegEx Testing | Tester/debugger for regular expressions | https://www.regextester.com/27540 |
| Robert Elder Software | Guide to regular expressions | https://blog.robertelder.org/regular-expressions/ |
Standards
| Name | Description | URL |
| Standardization Survival Kit | Online tool to support researchers in selecting and using appropriate standards for their disciplines and workflows | http://www.parthenos-project.eu/portal/ssk-2 |
| PROV | Standards for the interchange of provenance information, including activities and people involved in creating something | https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ |
| DH Curation Guide | A community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities | https://guide.dhcuration.org/contents/standards/ |
Manuscripts and Print
| Name | Description | URL |
| Stanford Global Currents | Using visual language processing to study manuscripts and print textual heritage | https://globalcurrents.stanford.edu/ |
Mapping and Geographical Data
| Name | Description | URL |
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ArcGIS |
Data mapping application, available to UoR researchers via AppsAnywhere | http://appsanywhere.reading.ac.uk/ |
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Leaflet |
An open source mapping package based on javascript | http://leafletjs.com |
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Harvard WorldMap on ArcGIS Online |
Online GIS mapping |
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2542dc5664264765a9fbd889fc71156b |
| Edinburgh Geoparser | Automatically recognise and disambiguate place names | https://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/geoparser/ |
| Recogito | Semantic Annotation of texts and images | https://recogito.pelagios.org/ |
| QGIS | Open Source Geographic Information System | https://www.qgis.org/en/site/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Pelagios Commons | online resources and community for using open data methods to link and explore historical places | http://commons.pelagios.org/ |
| Peripleo | Search engine of annotated online geographical resources | https://peripleo.pelagios.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Early Modern Map of London | Early Modern Map of London | https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/index.htm |
| Mapping the Great Lakes Project | Mapping the Great Lakes Project | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/mappingthelakes/ |
| Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System | Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System | http://www2.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis/ |
| Vision of Britain | Vision of Britain | http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ |
| Troubled Geographies | A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/troubledgeogs/index.htm |
| Creating a Chronotopic Ground for the Mapping of Literary Texts | Innovative Data Visualisation and Spatial Interpretation in the Digital Medium | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP00895X%2F1 |
| Stuz’uminus Storied Places Digital Atlas | Stuz’uminus Storied Places Digital Atlas | https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/ethnographicmapping/projects/stzuminus/index.php |
| Mapping A Colony | Mapping A Colony | https://blogit.itu.dk/mappingacolonyen/ |
| Heritage Maps Dublin | Heritage Maps Dublin | https://heritagemaps.ie/WebApps/DublinArchaeologyProject/index.html |
| Virtual Rome | Digital model of Ancient Rome | https://research.reading.ac.uk/virtualrome |
Databases and Linked Data
| Name | Description | URL |
| Drupal | Open Source Content Management software | http://www.drupal.org |
| CKAN | Content management tool for open data | https://ckan.org/about/ |
| Paget | Framework for building linked data applications | https://github.com/iand/paget |
| Publish my Data | Linked Data Publishing Platform with API, SPARQL and visualisations | http://publishmydata.com/ |
| Tabulator | Linked Data Browser | http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2005/ajar/ajaw/About.html |
| OpenRefine | Open Source software for messy data | http://openrefine.org |
| The DataVerse Project | Open source research data repository software | https://dataverse.org/ |
| Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network | Open source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals | https://ckan.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| nodegoat – What is a Relational Database? | Explanation of relational databases using humanities data as examples and with reference to analogue data collection history | https://nodegoat.net/blog.p/82.m/20/what-is-a-relational-database |
| Relational Databases Reference List | A short list of guides and reference websites, curated by the University of Alabama | https://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/adhc/files/2013/02/Relational-Database-Reference-List.pdf |
| Introduction to Linked Data | PowerPoint introduction to linked data, from the European Commission Open Data Support | PDF available here |
| OpenRefine | Open source software for working with messy data | http://openrefine.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| The Greek Revolution of 1821 | Digital Archive | https://www.rchumanities.gr/en/1821-about-the-project/ |
| Digital Panopticon | Tracing London Convicts in Britain and Australia, 1780-1925 | https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Ontologies for Digital Humanities | Ontologies for Digital Humanities | http://digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Timothy_Ontologies.pdf |
| The Music Ontology | The Music Ontology | http://musicontology.com/ |
| Audio Features Ontology Specification | Audio Features Ontology Specification | http://motools.sourceforge.net/doc/audio_features.html |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Programming Historian | Using SPARQL to access Linked Open Data | https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/graph-databases-and-SPARQL |
Textual Analysis
| Name | Description | URL |
| TEI | Text Encoding Initiative |
https://tei-c.org/Support/Learn/ |
| AntConc | A corpus analysis system to work with very large corpora | http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/ |
| CQPWeb | A corpus analysis system to work with very large corpora | https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/ |
| Wmatrix | Corpus analysis and comparison tool | http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ |
| #LancsBox | System for Analysis of language data and corpora – work with your own data or existing corpora | http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/lancsbox/ |
| Sketch Engine | tool to explore corpora, text analysis and text mining. Free access for universities for non-commercial use. | https://www.sketchengine.eu/ |
| Recogito | Semantic Annotation of texts and images | https://recogito.pelagios.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Stanford Literary Lab | Research collective applying computational criticism to literature. | https://litlab.stanford.edu/ |
| Text Mining the Novel | Text mining approach to studying the novel | https://novel-tm.ca/ |
| Poem Viewer | Visualizing poetry | http://ovii.oerc.ox.ac.uk/PoemVis/ |
| Hathi Trust | Library of digitised texts | https://www.hathitrust.org/data |
| Text Encoding Intiative | Text Encoding Intiative | https://tei-c.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Olbion, Exeter | Digital Annotated Edition of Poly | http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/research/projects/poly-olbion-pilot/ |
| I.Sicily | Sicilian Classical Inscriptions | http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions/ |
| Quill Project | Reconstructing and visualisaing the drafting of the US constitution | https://www.quillproject.net/quill |
Arts, Performance, and Built Environment Research
| Name | Description | URL |
| Mood Conductor | A system that allows audience members to interact with performers during musical improvisations. | http://isophonics.org/content/mood-conductor |
| FAST Project | Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption | http://www.semanticaudio.ac.uk/ |
| Centre for Digital Built Britain | Research centre working with government and industry to understand the benefits of digital approaches to built environment | https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/ |
| eDance | Research paper on eDance, a project including research in choreography, videoconferencing and human–computer interaction analysis, hypermedia and nonlinear annotations for recording and documentation | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2009.0048 |
| Visualising Voice Project | Research project examining the effect of a performer’s voice on experience of poetry, drawing on Europeana archive of spoken performance | https://pro.europeana.eu/post/europeana-research-grants-2016-outcomes-ardrey |
| Criminal Tattoos | Analysing patterns in tattoos among 19th century convicts, through data mining and visualisation | https://www.dhi.ac.uk/projects/criminal-tattoos/ |
Network Analysis
| Name | Description | URL |
| Dramavis | Python program for network analysis of dramatic texts and visualisations | https://github.com/lehkost/dramavis |
| Gephi | Visualisations and networks | https://gephi.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| A Short Manual to the Art of Prosopography | A Short Manual to the Art of Prosopography | https://prosopography.history.ox.ac.uk/images/01%20Verboven%20pdf.pdf |
| Directory of Prosopographical Research | Directory of Prosopographical Research | https://prosopography.history.ox.ac.uk/directory.htm |
| Historical Network Research | Historical Network Research | http://historicalnetworkresearch.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| Six Degrees of Francis Bacon | Six Degrees of Francis Bacon | http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com |
| Linked Modernisms | Linked Modernisms | http://linkedmods.uvic.ca/ |
| Mapping Manuscript Migration | Mapping Manuscript Migration | http://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/ |
| Mapping the Republic of Letters | Mapping the Republic of Letters | http://republicofletters.stanford.edu |
| Digital Panopticon | Tracing London Convicts in Britain and Australia, 1780-1925 | https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/ |
| Name | Description | URL |
| People of Medieval Scotland | People of Medieval Scotland | https://www.poms.ac.uk/ |
| Jaina-Prosopography | Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage | https://www.soas.ac.uk/jaina-prosopography/ |
| Prosopographical Database for Indic Texts | Prosopographical Database for Indic Texts | https://www.panditproject.org |
| China Biographical Database Project | China Biographical Database Project | https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb |
| Austrian Prosopographical information System | Austrian Prosopographical information System | https://apis.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ |
| Prosopography of the Byzantine World | Prosopography of the Byzantine World | https://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/ |
| Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England | Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England | http://www.pase.ac.uk/ |