History: Tools for Digital History

Use Annotation Studio to easily organize and annotate large collections of texts, to display significant texts or create digital archives which visitors can then annotate and tag, or share personal responses to texts with others, creating new digital communities.

Developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and Media at George Mason University (the same folks who developed Zotero), Omeka is a platform for hosting digital assets such as documents, photos, letters, and other physical artifacts. An Omeka account is free and open source. You can get started right away with little technical familiarity. Themes are integrated into Omeka so that design is easy.

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Use it to add metadata to online texts in order to make them more useful for research.

Transkribus enables you to automatically recognise text easily, edit seamlessly, collaborate effortlessly, and even train your custom AI for digitizing and interpreting historical documents of any form.