History Guide

Transkribus is a platform for the automated recognition, transcription and searching of historical documents. The main objective of Transkribus is to support users who are engaged in the transcription of printed or handwritten documents. Transkribus offers a number of tools for the automated processing of documents, such as: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), Layout Analysis, Document Understanding, Keyword Spotting, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Free download.

Take control of your research photos with Tropy, a tool that shortens the path from finding archival sources to writing about them. Tropy provides researchers with a common-sense way to organize and describe their research. Use Tropy to create an adaptable organization system where it’s easy to find any photo.

BigDIVA (Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application) is a dynamic environment for browsing, searching, and interacting with the Advanced Research Consortium catalog.This interface allows users to view all their search results at once rather than paging through endless lists of returns and hoping the search engine has put the most relevant items towards the top. BigDIVA is a force directed graph that uses color and node (or circle) size to provide information about the items being visualized. Colors represent different facets within the catalog: Resource, Genre, Discipline, and Format. Most nodes are sized according to the relative number of items each represents.

Watch and read thousands of fascinating timelines, or create your own. Complete with text, video and pictures to create a dynamic timeline mashup. Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage.

Mapinseconds.com turns your spreadsheet data into maps. The site automatically chooses your map, from its database of 600 regions around the world, based on the district names you provide in your data. If it guesses wrong, you can manually select a different regional map. The smart legend adjusts to account for outliers and categorical vs numerical data. You can pick from a number of map-safe color schemes and with one click download your image. Use Google Chrome for best results.