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Tools and Training
Website-Building
- Wordpress is a popular and adaptable blogging platform. Bryn Mawr folks can make their own sites at blogs.brynmawr.edu.
- Omeka is a platform for online exhibits. The Neatline plugin (available on server-hosted installations only) is particularly popular for undergraduate projects.
- Scalar is a media-rich online publishing platform.
Tutorials
- Programming Historian is a collection of high-quality, curated tutorials on popular digital tools and methodologies.
- Lynda.com has a range of well-crafted video tutorials on many topics, including software.
Text
- TEI, or the Text-Encoding Initiative, offers guidelines for representing digital texts, and is often used with the transcription of primary-source materials.
Quick and Easy
- Historypin lets users link map points to media content.
- History Engine is a website for undergraduates to share short primary-source research assignments on the web.