03 / Build

Tools for the work. Room for experiments.

Selected software, templates, and curated guides for working with texts, sources, and research data.

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01 / Text analysis

Simple Topic Modeling

Find the themes in a document collection, or in one long text, with a tool that runs entirely in your browser. Your texts stay on your computer.

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02 / Primary sources

Awesome Digital History

Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally. Filter the directory by region, type, language, and period.

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03 / Research data

Open Research Data Template

Start a clear, citable, and reusable research data repository, with documentation, citation metadata, a website, and Zenodo archiving.

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More tools and resources

04 / Document extraction

pdf2md

Convert PDFs to Markdown with local extraction, Apple OCR, and MLX.

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05 / Full-text search

recoll-web

Search a Recoll index through a small web interface built with FastAPI, Jinja2, and htmx.

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06 / Research tools

Quarto MCP

Connect MCP clients to the Quarto command-line interface through a thin server.

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07 / Publishing

Zenodo Uploader

Create, update, version, and publish Zenodo records from the command line or from an AI agent.

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08 / Academic writing

Academic Pandoc Template

Write typeset academic texts in distraction-free Markdown with Quarto and Pandoc.

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09 / Scholarly infrastructure

TextRefs

An open registry for persistent, canonical references to texts.

A collaborative project with Luz Christopher Seiberth

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10 / Curated list

Awesome Digital Humanities

Find software for humanities research with quantitative or computational methods.

A DH Tech community project

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11 / Curated list

Awesome Scientific Writing

Find tools, demos, and resources for scientific writing beyond LaTeX.

A community project

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The projects live in their own repositories. Find more on GitHub