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Tools for Digital Scholarship & Data

This guide is a curated list of tools for digital scholarship and research data projects.

Crowdsourcing

Zooniverse

is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — hundreds of thousands of people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. The goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries and datasets useful to the wider research community. You can use Zooniverse to build your own crowd-sourced project by using the Project Builder.

 

Scripto

is an open-source tool that enables a community of users to view digital files and transcribe them with an easy-to-use toolbar, rendering that text searchable. The tool includes a versioning history and editorial controls to make public contributions more manageable, and supports the transcription of a wide range of file types (both images and documents).