A term coined by Vannevar Bush to refer to a mechanized device to store, access, and organize massive amounts of information. Bush formulated his idea of the memex in a 1945 article published in The A [..]

Broadly conceived, any graphic expression meant to represent a certain set of information. In the digital humanities, visualization usually refers to data visualization, or the graphic expression of l [..]

A free and open-source application designed to manage bibliographic references and materials. Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Zotero has numerous features [..]

A social-networking platform for academics to share, track, and communicate research. Founded in 2008, Academia.edu has over 1.4 million users and contains nearly 1.4 million papers. The site allows f [..]

A proprietary, browser-independent, vector-graphics animation platform. Using the Player plug-in, Flash content will appear identically across various browsers and devices.

A language game developed by Warren Sack. Agonistics performs linguistic analysis in real time to construct a visualization of interlocutors’ discourse positions in relation to one another using avata [..]

A free concordance program available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. AntConc has evolved from a simple concordance program into a powerful tool for textual analysis. It is able to [..]

A public domain, open-source, Web-server software package. This software allows a user’s computer and a Web server to communicate with each other. The Apache HTTP Server is the most widely used Web se [..]

A specification that allows software applications to communicate with one another. An API allows client programs to access facilities within an application.

A collaborative project between the University of Chicago and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) laboratory Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Francaise (ATILF). It [..]