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Visual Resources Center: Digital Humanities

The Vanderbilt University Visual Resources Center is located in Cohen Hall 134 and is your source for finding and properly using high-quality images resources for your papers, presentations, and projects.

DH Resources

DevDH.org
Development for the Digital Humanities: "Providing the intellectual and strategic scaffolding to aid DH researchers successfully complete their research endeavors."

Digital Publishing

Scalar
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, with minimal technical expertise required.
WordPress
WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved into a full content management system through thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes.
Omeka
Create complex narratives and share rich collections adhering to Dublin Core standards. Omeka is designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and amateur enthusiasts alike.
Artsteps
Design and create 3-D virtual exhibitions.
Hypothes.is
A digital annotation tool to foster discussion and collaboration across the web.

General Tools

Smallpdf
.pdf conversion tool.
CloudConvert
General conversion for many file types.

Data Visualization/Infographics

Easelly
Create and share infographics and other visual ideas with thousands of templates.
Tableau
Make interactive data visualizations using a variety of data sources.
TimelineJS
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.
Gephi
Visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks.
VisualEyes
A web-based authoring tool to weave images, maps, charts, video, and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations.

VRC Showcase

Scalar Online Exhibition Catalog
Exhibiting Historical Art: Out of the Vault: Stories of People and Things

GIS (Geographic Information System)

ArcGIS (Esri Product)
ArcGIS Online is a complete, cloud-based mapping platform.
Neatline
Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.
Mapbox
StoryMap JS
TimeMapper

Data Collections

Vandy DH Community

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