Since this is simple string matching, we had to throw out some false positives manually (not too many, though).
To extract this kind of data, we wrote a little Java tool called ToolXtractor, which you can run yourself with alternative source material if you like and also with different lists of tools. The proceedings from DH2015 to DH2019 are freely available (licensed under CC BY 4.0, thx to Fabio Ciotti for giving us early access to the DH2019 data), so that was our chosen source:Īltogether, 238 tools were mentioned at least once in these five years, and we counted 1.498 mentions of tools altogether in all the proceedings.
#Atlasti and wordsmith series
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. We were wondering how this richness of means and utilities in our field is manifested in actual research work. 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 know this because we did some counting. Followed by Omeka, stylo, MALLET, Excel, D3.js, the NLTK, WordPress, Drupal, TextGrid, CollateX, GeoNames, TXM, Solr and Voyant Tools.
Not that we didn’t know that, but Gephi is the most popular DH tool actually used in research work. Which DH Tools Are Actually Used in Research? by
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