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Texts

  1. programminghistorian/jekyll

    Source of the Programming Historian, peer-reviewed lessons on digital methods for historians and humanists.

Datasets

  1. tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best Apache-2.0

    Slower, higher-accuracy recognition models for Tesseract, covering Latin, Ancient Greek, Fraktur and vertical Chinese.

  2. mozillazg/pinyin-data MIT

    Data files of pinyin readings for Chinese characters, compiled largely from the Unicode Unihan database.

  3. mozillazg/phrase-pinyin-data MIT

    Word-level pinyin data for Chinese phrases, for settling the reading of characters with several pronunciations.

  4. freedict/fd-dictionaries

    Bilingual dictionaries from the FreeDict project, hand-written in TEI XML under free licences.

  5. droher/etymology-db Apache-2.0

    Etymology dataset built from Wiktionary, with 3.8 million entries across 2,900 languages and typed relationships.

  6. ds4v/NomNaOCR MIT

    Dataset and OCR models for reading Han-Nom script in old Vietnamese documents.

  7. HTR-United/cremma-medieval

    Transcriptions of 12th–15th century manuscripts for training handwriting recognition models.

Tools

  1. tesseract-ocr/tesseract Apache-2.0

    Open-source OCR engine that turns scanned page images into searchable text in many languages.

  2. ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF MPL-2.0

    Adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, using Tesseract.

  3. kovidgoyal/calibre GPL-3.0

    Desktop ebook manager for organizing, converting, editing and reading EPUB, PDF and other formats.

  4. zotero/zotero

    Reference manager for collecting, annotating, organizing and citing research sources.

  5. BYVoid/OpenCC Apache-2.0

    Converts between Traditional and Simplified Chinese by character and phrase, with Taiwan and Hong Kong variants.

  6. hotoo/pinyin MIT

    JavaScript library that converts Chinese characters to pinyin, with tone and heteronym options.

  7. mozillazg/python-pinyin MIT

    Python library for converting Chinese characters into pinyin in several tone and spelling styles.

  8. zh-lx/pinyin-pro MIT

    JavaScript library for pinyin conversion, tones, initials and finals, and pinyin matching.

  9. openseadragon/openseadragon BSD-3-Clause

    Web viewer for zooming into very large images such as manuscripts, maps and paintings; supports IIIF.

  10. NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3 MPL-2.0

    Builds interactive, media-rich web timelines from a spreadsheet, suited to telling historical stories.

  11. jjjake/internetarchive AGPL-3.0

    Python library and command-line tool for searching, downloading and uploading Internet Archive items.

  12. 6tail/lunar-javascript MIT

    JavaScript library converting Gregorian and Chinese lunar dates, with solar terms, stems and branches, festivals.

  13. shanleiguang/vRain MIT

    Generates vertical PDF ebooks laid out like Chinese woodblock-printed classics.

  14. urschrei/pyzotero

    Python client for the Zotero web API, for scripting and batch work on reference libraries.

  15. internetarchive/bookreader AGPL-3.0

    Page-turning viewer for scanned books, used by the Internet Archive.

  16. mittagessen/kraken Apache-2.0

    OCR and handwriting recognition engine with layout analysis, trainable for historical and non-Latin scripts.

  17. cltk/cltk MIT

    Python toolkit for natural language processing of Latin, Ancient Greek and other premodern languages.

  18. annotorious/annotorious BSD-3-Clause

    JavaScript library for annotating images on web pages, usable with IIIF viewers.

  19. BLKSerene/Wordless GPL-3.0

    Desktop corpus tool for language, literature and translation studies: concordances, collocations, keywords, many languages.

  20. 6tail/lunar-python MIT

    Python library for Chinese lunar calendar conversion, solar terms, stems and branches, and traditional festivals.

  21. jiaeyan/Jiayan MIT

    Classical Chinese NLP toolkit: lexicon building, word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, sentence breaking and punctuation.

  22. ProjectMirador/mirador Apache-2.0

    IIIF image viewer for comparing and annotating digitized manuscripts and artworks side by side.

  23. UniversalViewer/universalviewer

    Embeddable IIIF viewer for images, books, PDFs, audio, video and 3D objects on collection websites.

  24. omeka/omeka-s GPL-3.0

    Publishing platform for libraries, archives and museums to describe collections with linked data and build exhibits.

  25. artefactual/archivematica AGPL-3.0

    Digital preservation system that packages digital objects into standards-based archival packages for long-term access.

  26. 6tail/tyme4ts MIT

    TypeScript calendar library covering Gregorian, Chinese lunar, Tibetan and Islamic calendars, solar terms and moon phases.

  27. eXist-db/exist LGPL-2.1

    Native XML database and application platform often used to store, query and publish TEI editions.

  28. archivesspace/archivesspace

    Archives management application for describing collections, recording accessions and publishing finding aids.

  29. nk2028/opencc-js MIT

    JavaScript port of OpenCC for converting between simplified and traditional Chinese in browsers or Node.

  30. TEIC/TEI

    Source of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, the standard XML vocabulary for encoding scholarly texts.

  31. ruven/iipsrv GPL-3.0

    IIPImage server for streaming and zooming very large images, with IIIF support.

  32. cantaloupe-project/cantaloupe

    Java image server implementing the IIIF Image API for deep-zoom delivery of high-resolution images.

  33. archesproject/arches AGPL-3.0

    Open platform for inventorying, managing and mapping cultural heritage records.

  34. ryanjgallagher/shifterator Apache-2.0

    Python package for word shift graphs that show which words drive the difference between two texts.

  35. TEIC/Stylesheets

    Official TEI XSLT stylesheets for converting TEI XML to and from HTML, Word, LaTeX and ePub.

  36. DDMAL/diva.js

    Web viewer for page images of documents and manuscripts, compatible with IIIF.

  37. computationalstylistics/stylo

    R package for stylometry: authorship attribution and stylistic comparison of texts.

  38. timwaters/mapwarper MIT

    Web application for georeferencing and warping scanned historical maps so they line up with modern maps.

  39. AsPJT/PAX_SAPIENTICA CC0-1.0

    Historical GIS with period calendars and agent-based simulation for philological, archaeological and anthropological data.

  40. ndl-lab/ndlkotenocr-lite CC-BY-4.0

    Lightweight OCR from Japan's National Diet Library for premodern Japanese books and classical Chinese texts.

  41. tainacan/tainacan GPL-3.0

    WordPress plugin for building and publishing museum and archive collections.

  42. projectblacklight/spotlight

    Rails application for curators to build online exhibits from digital collections.

  43. maps-as-data/MapReader

    Computer-vision pipeline for analysing large collections of historical map sheets and other images.

  44. tify-iiif-viewer/tify AGPL-3.0

    Lightweight, mobile-friendly IIIF viewer for digitised documents.

  45. open-guji/luatex-cn Apache-2.0

    LuaTeX package for Chinese typesetting, including faithful layouts of classical woodblock books.

  46. distant-viewing/dvt GPL-2.0

    Toolkit applying computer vision to the study of visual culture such as film, television and photographs.

  47. phoenixbf/aton GPL-3.0

    Web framework for building interactive 3D and virtual-reality presentations of cultural heritage sites and objects.

  48. Alatius/latin-macronizer GPL-3.0

    Marks long vowels in Latin texts automatically, and can convert u to v and i to j.

  49. craws/OpenAtlas GPL-2.0

    Web database for archaeological, historical and prosopographical data, modelled on CIDOC CRM.

  50. keeps/roda LGPL-3.0

    Digital preservation repository following the OAIS model, for ingesting, storing and giving access to archival records.

  51. forTEXT/catma GPL-3.0

    Web application for collaborative annotation and analysis of literary and other texts.

  52. glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer Apache-2.0

    Lightweight IIIF annotation server that stores and searches annotations made in Mirador.

  53. nulib-ds/clover MIT

    IIIF viewer and React component library from Northwestern University Libraries.

  54. annotation/text-fabric MIT

    Python model and apps for annotated text corpora, used for the Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament and others.

  55. eeditiones/tei-publisher-app

    Toolbox for publishing TEI-encoded digital editions as websites, built on eXist-db.

  56. evt-project/evt-viewer AGPL-3.0

    Edition Visualization Technology: shows TEI-encoded digital editions alongside manuscript facsimiles.

  57. AI-Riksarkivet/htrflow EUPL-1.2

    Handwritten text recognition pipeline from the Swedish National Archives for transcribing archival documents.

  58. KoichiYasuoka/UD-Kanbun MIT

    Tokenizer, part-of-speech tagger and dependency parser for classical Chinese, following Universal Dependencies.

  59. educelab/volume-cartographer GPL-3.0

    Toolkit for virtually unwrapping damaged scrolls and other cultural objects from volumetric scans.

  60. HeuristNetwork/heurist GPL-3.0

    Database platform built for humanities researchers to model, record and publish structured research data.

  61. mikahama/natas Apache-2.0

    Python library for normalizing historical English spelling and correcting OCR errors in old texts.

  62. DARIAH-DE/TopicsExplorer

    Desktop application for building and exploring topic models of a text collection without programming.

  63. rsimon/immarkus AGPL-3.0

    Browser tool for semantic annotation of images, including IIIF sources, for humanities researchers.

  64. intranda/goobi-workflow GPL-2.0

    Workflow software for managing digitisation projects in libraries, archives and museums.

  65. open-oni/open-oni

    Web application for publishing digitized historic newspapers, with page images and searchable OCR text.

  66. dainst/idai-field Apache-2.0

    Field recording app from the German Archaeological Institute for excavations, finds and surveys, working offline.

  67. dedalia-org/dedalo AGPL-3.0

    Management system for cultural heritage collections and oral history archives, with thesauri and media.

  68. cneud/alto-tools Apache-2.0

    Python tools for extracting text, confidence scores and statistics from OCR output in ALTO XML.

  69. jbaiter/pdiiif MIT

    Builds PDFs from IIIF manifests in the browser, optionally with OCR text.

  70. ewg118/numishare Apache-2.0

    Software suite for cataloguing coin and medal collections and publishing them as linked open data.

  71. UB-Mannheim/escriptorium

    Mannheim University Library's maintained copy of eScriptorium, a web platform for transcribing manuscripts with kraken.

  72. jhellingman/tei2html GPL-3.0

    XSLT stylesheets that turn TEI-encoded books into HTML and ePub, used to produce Project Gutenberg editions.

  73. digirati-co-uk/iiif-manifest-editor MIT

    Web editor for creating and modifying IIIF manifests.

  74. ARTFL-Project/PhiloLogic4 GPL-3.0

    Full-text search and concordance engine for TEI-encoded literary corpora, from the ARTFL Project.

  75. kitodo/kitodo-presentation GPL-3.0

    Framework for presenting METS- or IIIF-described digitized collections as an online digital library.

  76. forfudan/GujiCC

    OpenCC conversion tables from simplified to traditional Chinese, following China's glyph standard for printing ancient books.

  77. iiif-prezi/iiif-prezi3 Apache-2.0

    Python library for building IIIF Presentation API 3 manifests.

  78. Post45-Data-Collective/BookReconciler MIT

    Enriches and clusters book metadata by reconciling records against external bibliographic sources.

  79. CogappLabs/StoriiiesViewer MIT

    Embeddable viewer that walks readers through annotated IIIF images as step-by-step stories.

  80. anon-research-tools/intelligent-ocr

    Offline desktop OCR that makes scanned PDFs of Chinese ancient books searchable, with variant-character mapping.

  81. Aikon-platform/aikon

    Platform for visual analysis of historical corpora, such as detecting and comparing illustrations.

  82. memorymapper/memorymap-toolkit GPL-3.0

    Django web application from UCL for building interactive maps about history and heritage with attached media.

  83. d-flood/criticus MIT

    Desktop tools linking transcription, collation and analysis in New Testament textual criticism.

  84. NationalLibraryOfNorway/DHLAB MIT

    Python library for qualitative and quantitative analysis of digitized texts from the National Library of Norway.

  85. recogito/recogito-studio AGPL-3.0

    Self-hosted platform for collaborative annotation of texts, TEI files and IIIF images.

  86. dh-tech/undate-python Apache-2.0

    Python library for uncertain, partial or approximate dates across several calendars.

  87. jjmccollum/teiphy MIT

    Converts TEI XML collations into NEXUS and other formats for phylogenetic study of manuscript traditions.

  88. matgrioni/betacode MIT

    Python package converting Greek between Beta Code, used in older classical corpora, and Unicode.

  89. shanleiguang/vModou MIT

    Command-line Perl tool that corrects skew and distortion in scanned page images of Chinese woodblock-printed books.

  90. deutschestextarchiv/dtabf

    DTA Base Format: the TEI subset the German Text Archive uses to encode historical German texts.

  91. surf3s/E5 MIT

    Configurable data-entry program for recording finds and observations on archaeological excavations.

  92. wikisource/ia-upload

    Moves scanned books from the Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons for transcription on Wikisource.

  93. mkpoli/hundouk MIT

    Typst package that typesets kanbun kundoku, classical Chinese with Japanese reading marks, vertically or horizontally.

Lists

  1. IIIF/awesome-iiif

    Community list of IIIF viewers, servers, libraries, collections and learning material.

  2. dh-tech/awesome-digital-humanities CC0-1.0

    Curated list of software for humanities scholars using quantitative or computational methods.

  3. CLARIAH/awesome-humanities-ontologies CC0-1.0

    Curated list of ontologies and vocabularies for modelling humanities data as linked data.

  4. cneud/ocr-conversion

    Collection of scripts and stylesheets for converting between OCR formats such as ALTO, hOCR, PAGE and TEI.

  5. dig-Eds-cat/digEds_cat

    Catalogue of existing digital scholarly editions, with descriptive data on each project.

  6. HTR-United/htr-united CC0-1.0

    Catalogue of ground-truth datasets for training handwriting recognition on heritage documents.

  7. philipallfrey/teihub

    Automatically updated list of GitHub repositories that contain TEI-encoded files.

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