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Tools and resources

Tools and resources

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A list of software available at Queen's is maintained by the IT Service Desk.  If you wish to promote other software, or request changes to the software available page, please log a service request with the IT Service Desk

Included below are a link to useful tools and resources that are commonly used in the field of digital scholarship.  Scroll the page to browse, or search alphabetically by selecting the hyperlinked letters below.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

A

AntConc

A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS offers unique capabilities and flexible licensing for applying location-based analytics to your business practices. Gain greater insights using contextual tools to visualize and analyze your data. Collaborate and share via maps, apps, dashboards and reports.

Artsteps

ArtSteps is an innovative, web-based application that empowers creators to build exhibitions, events, and brand storytelling concepts by designing realistic 3-dimensional room complexes.

Atlas.ti

ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data.

B

British National Corpus (BNC) Web

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century, both spoken and written. 

C

CONTENTdm

CONTENTdm allows you to easily build, preserve, and showcase your digital collections on your personalized website, making them more discoverable to people around the world.

G

Google Arts & Culture

Content from over 2000 leading museums and archives

Genially

Create presentations, infographics and other stunning content by yourself or with your team.

J

Juxtapose

Easy-to-make frame comparisons.  Juxtapose helps storytellers compare two pieces of similar media, including photos, and GIFs.

M

Microsoft Sway

Create visually striking newsletters, presentations and documentation in minutes

N

nodegoat

nodegoat is a web-based research environment for the humanities

NVivo

Qualitative data analysis software

O

Omeka

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

P

Python

Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.

Q

QGIS

A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System

R

R

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. 

Reclaim Hosting

Reclaim Hosting provides institutions and educators with an easy way to offer their students domains and web hosting that they own and control.

S

Shorthand

Shorthand is a digital storytelling platform for teams in marketing, communications, and media. 

StoryMap JS

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.

T

Timeline JS

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. 

TimeMapper

TimeMapper is an open-source project of Open Knowledge Foundation Labs

V

Visual Understanding Environment

Flexible concept mapping tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research.

W

WordPress

Website builder