More digital tools for historians
Since there is a plethora of different digitals tools, platforms, databases and virtual research environments popping up these days we are trying to give a curated overview on those which seem to us recommendable for historians.
For this overview please see Awesome Digital History, a curated list by Moritz Mähr whom we thank very much for the collaboration.
Transcription and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Transkribus: a platform for digitisation, AI-powered text recognition, transcription and annotation of historical documents
OCR4all: a tool for automatic text recognition for historic printed texts
Ad Fontes: a learning program for the work with historical material
Annotation
hypothes.is: a software project for collecting comments about statements made in any web-accessible content
Learning programming
The Programming Historian: a peer-reviewed academic journal of Digital Humanities and Digital History methodology
Scientific writing
Kompass Geschichtsstudium: basic principles of historical studies by Historisches Seminar
Awesome scientific writing: a curated list by Moritz Mähr whom we thank very much for the collaboration
SciFlow: managing different templates for scientific manuscripts
HumanitiesConnect: a platform publishing short articles from the Humanities and Social Sciences as to form multi-authored and interdisciplinary discourses
This list is being permanently completed and updated.