There are hundreds of different digital tools you can use for projects, but this toolkit provides you with tutorials on some of the more common ones. Please let us know if there’s a digital tool that you’d like for us to investigate adding.
Content Management
Build websites for digital projects, blogs, exhibits, books, and portfolios.
- Sites at Gettysburg – create a domain and establish an online presence
- WordPress – websites and blogs
- Pressbooks – interactive books
- Scalar – digital publishing and non-linear websites
- Omeka – create digital collections and exhibits
Storytelling
Tools for telling stories with space and time.
- TimelineJS – digital timelines
- StoryMapJS – narrative mapping and image annotation
- Twine – “choose-your-own-adventure” style stories
- ArcGIS Story Maps – infinite-scroll style website with maps and media
Visualization
Create interactive displays to visualize and analyze data.
- Zoomify – create large images to annotate with StoryMapJS
- Thinglink – visualize media and create tags
- RAWGraphs – visualize data from a spreadsheet
- JuxtaposeJS – compare two pieces of media to document change over time
- Flourish.Studio – create visualizations from datasets
- Datawrapper – create visualizations from datasets
Analysis
- Onodo – create social networks to tell a story
- Voyant Tools – interpret text from analytics
