Digital Humanities: Digital Exhbits and Publishing

Omeka provides open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways.

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing.

Wordpress is a very popular platform for creating blogs and websites. Wordpress software is free and open-source, and can be downloaded and installed on your server. Wordpress also has commercial hosting options available by subscription.

Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps, image annotations, and narrative sequences from Omeka collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines that are more-than-usually sensitive to ambiguity and nuance.

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It is a new tool, yet stable in our development environment, and it has a friendly authoring tool.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet.