Which DH Tools Are Actually Used in Research?

Not that we didn’t know that, but Gephi is the most popular DH tool actually used in research work. Followed by Omeka, stylo, MALLET, Excel, D3.js, the NLTK, WordPress, Drupal, TextGrid, CollateX, GeoNames, TXM, Solr and Voyant Tools.

We know this because we did some counting. So let’s explain:

The longest-standing tool directory in the Digital Humanities, the Canadian portal TAPoR led by Geoffrey Rockwell, has around 1.500 DH tools in its database (including historic ones). We were wondering how this richness of means and utilities in our field is manifested in actual research work. To gain some first insights, we decided to extract the names of tools from TAPoR (which is easy thanks to their API) and match them with the proceedings of the largest and broadest event series in the Digital Humanities, ADHO’s annual DH conferences.

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