Research?

Local database

https://www.claris.com/filemaker/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://support.claris.com/s/article/FileMaker-Beginner-Resources?language=en_US

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Tabula allows you to extract pdf data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface.

nan

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. The University of Melbourne has institutional access to this software.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/18/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

Qualtrics is an online survey tool that allows users to easily create surveys, design them collaboratively and share responses with others. The University of Melbourne has institutional access to this software.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/19/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

PDFTables converts PDF documents into a variety of file types

nan

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

Graph database

https://neo4j.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/dealing-with-big-data-and-network-analysis-using-neo4j

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

Relatinal database management system

https://www.mysql.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/guides/allocations/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/getting-started-with-mysql-using-r

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Scrapy is a tool for building 'crawlers' for scraping data from websites. A crawler is a program that recursively visits many websites looking for and extracting data.

https://scrapy.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: The website Let's learn About offers a ScraPy tutorial aimed at users without previous web scraping experience but with Python knowledge. This tutorial explains the basics of scraping and helps users to construct a crawler to scrape images and text from a website.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

Requests is a tool for Python allowing users to connect, query and fetch data directly from webpages or servers through APIs.

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

Open-source research data repository making data discoverable, reusable and citable

https://dataverse.ada.edu.au

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.6.1/user/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

An archive for digital sources preserving records of materials form endangered cultures from all over the world, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

https://www.paradisec.org.au

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.paradisec.org.au/about-us/training/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Data repository

Open Source web content management system

https://wordpress.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://wordpress.com/learn/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: No, the University of Melbourne only actively supports the old version of Omeka, Omeka Classic. https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka Classic is the old version of Omeka. Omeka S is the current version. Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-an-omeka-exhibit

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Github offers a cloud-based Git repository hosting service

https://github.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/open-scholarship/code-and-software

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Figshare is an open access data repository where researchers can preserve their research outputs, such as datasets, images, and videos and make them discoverable. The university has an institutional access to this software.

https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/resources/platforms-infrastructure-and-equipment/research-infrastructure-platforms/research-computing-services/services/data-storage-management/figshare

University of Melbourne Supported: https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/43/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://unimelb.libguides.com/openresearch/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Remotely stores Microsoft Office documents so that they can be accessed and edited using either web or applications downloaded into the researcher's computer. Sharepoint can be configured as a network drive accessible from the desktop or finder applications in a researcher's computer, or accessed by login into its webpage using a web browser. SharePoint allows UoM researchers to work collaboratively on the same document in realtime.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

The Melbourne Research Cloud (MRC) offers free on-demand computing resources to researchers at the University of Melbourne

https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/training/

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Commercial word processing software.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/word

University of Melbourne Supported: https://staff.unimelb.edu.au/it-services-support/collaborate-with-microsoft-365

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse designed to help you turn big data into valuable insights.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/#section-7

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

Databank is an online web resource that provides simple and quick access to collections of time series data. It has advanced functions for selecting and displaying data, performing customized queries, downloading data, and creating charts and maps.

https://databank.worldbank.org/home

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://databank.worldbank.org/faq/html/databank-faq.html

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Share data

The Melbourne Institute Data Lab has different data repositories including Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, Taking the Pulse of the Nation (TTPN) surveys and Consumer Attitudes, Sentiments and Expectations in Australia Survey.

https://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/data

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/hilda/for-data-users

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Collections

Evernote is a powerful tool that can help executives, entrepreneurs and creative people capture and arrange their ideas.

https://evernote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314458-Using-Evernote-Quick-Start-Guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

DMP (Data Management Planning) Melbourne allows you to write, edit, share, and export data management plans that meet institutional, regulatory, and funding body requirements.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/7/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/Digital-Scholarship/training_and_outreach/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Github offers a cloud-based Git repository hosting service

https://github.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/open-scholarship/code-and-software

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

A discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet that features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools and pivot tables. Microsoft's Office suite is available to all UniMelb students and researchers.

https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software/office-365

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

A paid subscription or perpetual licence plug-in for Microsoft Excel allowing users to perform statistical analysis and visualisations on spreadsheet data. The package offers tools for calculating descriptive statistics, and a wide range of univariate statistical hypothesis tests. There are also tools for dimension reduction of multivariate datasets available.

https://analyse-it.com/products/standard

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

SPSS is a commercial software for statistical analysis and numerical computation. It can visually summarise numerical data and perform multivariate statistical analyses. SPSS's Routines are run either using its GUI or by coding in its native language (Syntax).

https://www.ibm.com/au-en/products/spss-statistics

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: FreeCodeCamp.org offers a comprehensive video tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpwZS3XnEZA) covering basic and advanced SPSS features. It explains how to use SPSS' GUI and Syntax coding for analysing and visualising data.

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Statistics

A Graphical User Interface for R offers the researcher access to various statsitical analyses and visualisations by means of buttons and menus without the need for coding.

https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/Rcmdr-screenshot.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Statistics

Commercial software for calculation and computation from numerical data. It can perform advanced analytics including multivariate statistical analyses. It has various add-ons for machine learning and model deployment and monitoring with industry applications.

https://www.minitab.com/en-us/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Statistics

Open source application for data cleanup, wrangling and transformation to various formats.

https://openrefine.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/cleaning-data-with-openrefine

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Programming libraries for R containing tools for producing "tidy" tabular datasets where every row is an observation, every column is a variable and every cell contains a single value. The commands available in these tools produce 'tidy' datasets by filtering, collapsing, splitting and grouping the contents of 'untidy' tables.

https://tidyr.tidyverse.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Database

Open source programming language and environment for numerical computing and visualisation. Widely used tool for statistical analysis with extensions for text analysis, machine learning and data mining. Although GUIs are available for common analyses, most tasks are done by coding.

https://www.r-project.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Statistics

Commercial software for numerical computing. It has tools for performing various analyses, including statistics, image, video and audio processing. It also includes a rich library of algorithms for machine and deep learning tasks. Most work is done by coding, although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are available for performing specific tasks.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html

University of Melbourne Supported: https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Statistics

A versatile python library for working with text and numbers stored in tabular form. This tool offers a wide range of routines to analyse, clean, and visualise tabular data. Pandas works with other Python tools for text and NLP analysis such as NLTK.

https://pandas.pydata.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: The team behind the creation of Pandas offers a wide range of tutorials. These target new and experienced users of tools such as Microsoft Excel or R. (https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/getting_started/index.html)

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Editing

Open source machine learning algorithms written in Java for mining potentially very large datasets made up of text (text mining), numerical data, and images and speech, among others. Weka also includes tools for performing analysis on the fetched data including classification, clustering and visualisation of patterns in data. Weka authors offer free online tutorials for learning how to use this tool, and have authored a book detailing the theoretical principles and practical use of this tool.

https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Textual Analysis

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet that features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools and pivot tables. Microsoft's Office suite is available to all UniMelb students and researchers.

https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software/office-365

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Tableau is an interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence

https://www.tableau.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Seaborn is an open source plotting library for Python programming language with a focus on statistical graphics.

https://seaborn.pydata.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

This diagram generator produces sankey diagrams (flow charts) from tabular data provided by the user

http://sankey-diagram-generator.acquireprocure.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Plotly is a data visualization company that makes it easy to build, test, and deploy beautiful interactive web apps, charts and graphs

https://plotly.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Open source plotting library for Python programming language. It has several extensions to work with different types of data including maps and images.

https://matplotlib.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

DisplayR helps produce different types of visualisation from different data sources including tables, surveys, and text.

https://www.displayr.com/product/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

An online tool that allows users to create sankey diagram through point and click.

https://sankey.csaladen.es/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Breve allows visualisation and editing of tabular data.

http://hdlab.stanford.edu/breve

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Free-access resource for Australian legal information, including court transcripts, primary legal materials, legislation, treaties, decisions of courts/tribunals, law reform and royal commission reports and a substantial collection of law journals.

https://www.austlii.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

A database of Australian Live Performances

https://www.ausstage.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/learn/help

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Open source plotting program capable of running from the command line or a GUI. GNUplot uses its own programing language with the ability to read input from other programs and producing graphical outputs on-the-fly (piping).

http://www.gnuplot.info

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Charts

Commercial software for numerical computing. It has tools for performing various analyses, including statistics, image, video and audio processing. It also includes a rich library of algorithms for machine and deep learning tasks. Most work is done by coding, although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are available for performing specific tasks.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html

University of Melbourne Supported: https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Statistics

Graph database

https://neo4j.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/dealing-with-big-data-and-network-analysis-using-neo4j

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music and websites.

https://archive.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Open-source research data repository making data discoverable, reusable and citable

https://dataverse.ada.edu.au

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.6.1/user/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

An archive for digital sources preserving records of materials form endangered cultures from all over the world, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

https://www.paradisec.org.au

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.paradisec.org.au/about-us/training/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Data repository

Open Source web content management system

https://wordpress.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://wordpress.com/learn/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: No, the University of Melbourne only actively supports the old version of Omeka, Omeka Classic. https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka Classic is the old version of Omeka. Omeka S is the current version. Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-an-omeka-exhibit

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Figshare is an open access data repository where researchers can preserve their research outputs, such as datasets, images, and videos and make them discoverable. The university has an institutional access to this software.

https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/resources/platforms-infrastructure-and-equipment/research-infrastructure-platforms/research-computing-services/services/data-storage-management/figshare

University of Melbourne Supported: https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/43/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://unimelb.libguides.com/openresearch/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Remotely stores Microsoft Office documents so that they can be accessed and edited using either web or applications downloaded into the researcher's computer. Sharepoint can be configured as a network drive accessible from the desktop or finder applications in a researcher's computer, or accessed by login into its webpage using a web browser. SharePoint allows UoM researchers to work collaboratively on the same document in realtime.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

The Melbourne Research Cloud (MRC) offers free on-demand computing resources to researchers at the University of Melbourne

https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/training/

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Reference management software.

https://www.zotero.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/zotero

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Reference management

Reference management software.

https://endnote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/endnote

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Reference management

Evernote is a powerful tool that can help executives, entrepreneurs and creative people capture and arrange their ideas.

https://evernote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314458-Using-Evernote-Quick-Start-Guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

DMP (Data Management Planning) Melbourne allows you to write, edit, share, and export data management plans that meet institutional, regulatory, and funding body requirements.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/7/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/Digital-Scholarship/training_and_outreach/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

A discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

MAXQDA is a software designed for computer-assisted qualitative and mixed methods data, text, and multimedia analysis.

https://www.maxqda.com/shop/order?tab=students

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Annotation and transcription tool for video and audio analysis. Users can add unlimited annotations to audiovisual material as sentences, words or translations. This tool allows connecting up to 4 different video files.

https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

Open-source tool to convert video from many different formats to commonly used and widely supported codecs/formats.

https://handbrake.fr

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Create interactive fiction games.

https://twinery.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/interactive-text-games-using-twine

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Collections

Vegas Pro is a video editing software package for non-linear editing

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/au/vegas-pro/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Renderforest is used creating videos including tutorials, explainer animations, music visualisations and others.

https://www.renderforest.com

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Commercial, online platform for creating interactive animation and video effects.

https://offeo.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Movavi is a mid-range video editor designed for new and intermediate users who want to turn their video clips into movies.

https://www.movavi.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Magic Music Visuals is a commercial software for creating interactive animation and video effects.

https://magicmusicvisuals.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

PowerDirector provides you with a large number of different and useful tools for producing a video.

https://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/trials/powerdirector-video-editing-software/download_en_AU.html?r=1

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based and non-linear video editing software application

https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software/adobe-cc

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

A tool for managing large volumes of digital images and video. Adobe Bridge has been designed and optimised to efficiently perform basic editing tasks such as file renaming, resizing, and changing formats on large batches of media files.

https://creativecloud.adobe.com/apps/download/bridge

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

After Effects is software for creating interactive animation and video effects.

https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software/adobe-cc

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open-access collaborative project to create a free editable geographic database of the world.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Provide spatial data and maps, as well as non-spatial data like spreadsheets, tables, PDFs, and more

https://www.esri.com/en-us/home

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

The GDELT Event Database records over 300 categories of physical activities around the world, from riots and protests to peace appeals

https://www.gdeltproject.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Collections

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10 million

https://www.naturalearthdata.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

A suite of data-driven visualisation tools developed by the DHLAB at Stanford University. Palladio helps researchers to visualise and analyse historical datasets with different data types. This tool produces layered maps, network diagrams and image galleries.

https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: HDLAB offers a wide array of tutorials covering most of Palladio's analysis features. From loading data to producing maps, galleries and plots (https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/help/)

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

A library of tools originally developed to map Australian history and culture through the use of digital maps. This tool allows user to retrieve coordinates from current and historical maps, creating new maps containing dates of historical events or journeys. Layered maps can be exported as KML files and displayed using external software such as Google Earth.

https://www.tlcmap.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

QGIS is an open-source tool for viewing, editing and analysing geospatial data. QGIS accepts different types of geospatial data, including spatially-enabled tables, images, mesh and vector data in various formats for visualisation and analysis. QGIS offers a graphical user interface (GUI) front allowing researchers to use this tool without coding. Users can customise and expand their QGIS installation using plugins written in Python language.

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: video tutorials from their QGIS workshop covering the basic features of this tool. Tutorials cover a wide range of topics, from an introduction to QGIS to producing maps from historical annotations and integration with the program R for advanced analysis.

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Uses geographic data to perfom various types of analyses including clustering, density, netwoks, radius and centre of gravity.

https://maply.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Open Source application for geospatial data analysis focused on large datasets. This tool produces data-driven maps by overlying numerical data layers on top of map images. Kepler GL can indentify trends over time and uses various filters to obtain different insights from the data. It has a graphical user interface allowing users to drag and drop properly formated data files on map images.

https://kepler.gl

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Curates, annotate and explores maps stored in servers and accessible through APIs using the international image interoperability framework (IIIF). Users require experience using APIs to use this tool.

https://allmaps.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

AURIN Data Catalogue has 5307 datasets with varying sources, usage and licenses

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/59/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

ArcGis is a commercial tool to create interactive maps using geospatial data. ArcGis comes in two 'flavours': online and desktop. The platform offers several extra add-ins, including detailed maps curated by Esri. These maps are helpful templates for producing custom visualisations.

https://www.arcgis.com/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: GeoDelta Labs offers a video tutorial aimed at novice users of ArcGIS Desktop. The tutorial presents the main features of this tool through a set of practical examples. Topics covered include vector and raster data, converting between these two data types and finalising by demonstrating how to construct a layered map displaying an example dataset. Esri, the developer of ArcGIS, offers a set of quick-start video tutorials showing how to complete typical tasks such as constructing and publishing maps and building geoprocessing models for in-depth analysis.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Mapping

GeoPy is a Python program to interact with APIs provided by various geolocation services such as Google Maps, Open Street Map, Bing Maps, Mapbox, and others. GeoPy makes it easy to query these services to obtain geographic coordinates of addresses, cities, countries and landmarks around the planet and vice versa. Some geolocation services' APIs are free, but others require a paid subscription.

https://geopy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

This tool is a Python library that extends the Pandas library's capabilities to make it easier to work with Geospatial data. Users can use this tool to visualise quantitative datasets on maps, add annotations as markers or geometrical shapes, and explore relationships between objects. GeoPandas can construct maps from user-provided data or use maps from the Folium library.

https://geopandas.org/en/stable/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: This tutorial (https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche/geopandas-tutorial/tree/main) is an introduction to geospatial data analysis in Python using Jupyter Notebooks by Joris Van den Bossche. It presents different libraries for working with geospatial data, including tools for importing, combining and tidying datasets, exploring spatial relationships and producing visualisations.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

A programming library for Python allowing researchers to use the data wrangling capacities of this programming language to annotate a large rage of base maps with user provided coordinate data. Folium can annotate maps using simple markers to point specific locations or colour maps representing different types of quantitative data. The user must have some knowledge of Python to use this tool.

https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

Deck.gl is a tool for visualising large datasets as layers on maps. You can use this tool with different APIs such as Google Maps, ArcGIS, Leaflet, and Mapbox. While some map libraries Deck.gl uses are open source, others require a commercial license. Deck.gl can be used by any JavaScript application or as a Python library.

https://deck.gl/docs

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: The Geocast series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziajCmvgo8) produced by Google Maps Platforms offers tutorial videos aimed at novice Deck.gl users with JavaScript knowledge.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

A suite of data-driven visualisation tools developed by the DHLAB at Stanford University. Palladio helps researchers to visualise and analyse historical datasets with different data types. This tool produces layered maps, network diagrams and image galleries.

https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: HDLAB offers a wide array of tutorials covering most of Palladio's analysis features. From loading data to producing maps, galleries and plots (https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/help/)

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Multiplottr allows you to plot multiple locations on a map, save and share on Google Maps.

https://multiplottr.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

A tool for Microsoft Excel to construct 3D maps visualisations from geographic data

http://products.office.com/en-us/excel

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

QGIS is an open-source tool for viewing, editing and analysing geospatial data. QGIS accepts different types of geospatial data, including spatially-enabled tables, images, mesh and vector data in various formats for visualisation and analysis. QGIS offers a graphical user interface (GUI) front allowing researchers to use this tool without coding. Users can customise and expand their QGIS installation using plugins written in Python language.

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: video tutorials from their QGIS workshop covering the basic features of this tool. Tutorials cover a wide range of topics, from an introduction to QGIS to producing maps from historical annotations and integration with the program R for advanced analysis.

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Maptive is a cloud and web-based solution that helps users create and visualise maps

https://www.maptive.com

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Uses geographic data to perfom various types of analyses including clustering, density, netwoks, radius and centre of gravity.

https://maply.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

A tool for easy creation of thematic maps in 3 steps from CSV data.

https://www.sciencespo.fr/cartographie/khartis/en/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Open Source application for geospatial data analysis focused on large datasets. This tool produces data-driven maps by overlying numerical data layers on top of map images. Kepler GL can indentify trends over time and uses various filters to obtain different insights from the data. It has a graphical user interface allowing users to drag and drop properly formated data files on map images.

https://kepler.gl

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

Displays batches of geographical data entered as plain text as pins on a map.

https://batchgeo.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Mapping

StoryMap JS

https://storymap.knightlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/displaying-georeferenced-map-knightlab-storymap-js

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Mapping

Sub-category: Mapping

An online georeferencing tool. The tool allows users to stretch and shrink historical maps which may not have been drawn to scale or have other inaccuracies. The rescaled maps can be overlayed on contempory maps.

https://mapwarper.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: Not supported by the University of Melbourne. Public Records Office Victoria (PROVe) runs a Map Warper service and are very friendly and collaborative.

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/introduction-map-warper

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Mapping

ArcGis is a commercial tool to create interactive maps using geospatial data. ArcGis comes in two 'flavours': online and desktop. The platform offers several extra add-ins, including detailed maps curated by Esri. These maps are helpful templates for producing custom visualisations.

https://www.arcgis.com/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: GeoDelta Labs offers a video tutorial aimed at novice users of ArcGIS Desktop. The tutorial presents the main features of this tool through a set of practical examples. Topics covered include vector and raster data, converting between these two data types and finalising by demonstrating how to construct a layered map displaying an example dataset. Esri, the developer of ArcGIS, offers a set of quick-start video tutorials showing how to complete typical tasks such as constructing and publishing maps and building geoprocessing models for in-depth analysis.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Mapping

A JavaScript library for creating and interacting with maps created from GeoJSON objects.

https://leafletjs.com/examples/geojson/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/mapping-with-python-leaflet

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

This tool is a Python library that extends the Pandas library's capabilities to make it easier to work with Geospatial data. Users can use this tool to visualise quantitative datasets on maps, add annotations as markers or geometrical shapes, and explore relationships between objects. GeoPandas can construct maps from user-provided data or use maps from the Folium library.

https://geopandas.org/en/stable/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: This tutorial (https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche/geopandas-tutorial/tree/main) is an introduction to geospatial data analysis in Python using Jupyter Notebooks by Joris Van den Bossche. It presents different libraries for working with geospatial data, including tools for importing, combining and tidying datasets, exploring spatial relationships and producing visualisations.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

A programming library for Python allowing researchers to use the data wrangling capacities of this programming language to annotate a large rage of base maps with user provided coordinate data. Folium can annotate maps using simple markers to point specific locations or colour maps representing different types of quantitative data. The user must have some knowledge of Python to use this tool.

https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

Deck.gl is a tool for visualising large datasets as layers on maps. You can use this tool with different APIs such as Google Maps, ArcGIS, Leaflet, and Mapbox. While some map libraries Deck.gl uses are open source, others require a commercial license. Deck.gl can be used by any JavaScript application or as a Python library.

https://deck.gl/docs

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: The Geocast series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziajCmvgo8) produced by Google Maps Platforms offers tutorial videos aimed at novice Deck.gl users with JavaScript knowledge.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Mapping

Express Scribe is a professional audio player software for PC or Mac designed to help transcribe audio recordings.

https://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Transcription

Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to empower users with real-time transcription meeting notes that are shareable, searchable, accessible and secure.

https://otter.ai/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews.

https://otranscribe.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

Graph database

https://neo4j.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/dealing-with-big-data-and-network-analysis-using-neo4j

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music and websites.

https://archive.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Requests is a tool for Python allowing users to connect, query and fetch data directly from webpages or servers through APIs.

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

Open-source research data repository making data discoverable, reusable and citable

https://dataverse.ada.edu.au

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.6.1/user/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

An archive for digital sources preserving records of materials form endangered cultures from all over the world, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

https://www.paradisec.org.au

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.paradisec.org.au/about-us/training/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Data repository

Open Source web content management system

https://wordpress.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://wordpress.com/learn/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: No, the University of Melbourne only actively supports the old version of Omeka, Omeka Classic. https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka Classic is the old version of Omeka. Omeka S is the current version. Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-an-omeka-exhibit

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Figshare is an open access data repository where researchers can preserve their research outputs, such as datasets, images, and videos and make them discoverable. The university has an institutional access to this software.

https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/resources/platforms-infrastructure-and-equipment/research-infrastructure-platforms/research-computing-services/services/data-storage-management/figshare

University of Melbourne Supported: https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/43/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://unimelb.libguides.com/openresearch/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Remotely stores Microsoft Office documents so that they can be accessed and edited using either web or applications downloaded into the researcher's computer. Sharepoint can be configured as a network drive accessible from the desktop or finder applications in a researcher's computer, or accessed by login into its webpage using a web browser. SharePoint allows UoM researchers to work collaboratively on the same document in realtime.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

The Melbourne Research Cloud (MRC) offers free on-demand computing resources to researchers at the University of Melbourne

https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/training/

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Reference management software.

https://www.zotero.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/zotero

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Reference management

Reference management software.

https://endnote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/endnote

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Reference management

Evernote is a powerful tool that can help executives, entrepreneurs and creative people capture and arrange their ideas.

https://evernote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314458-Using-Evernote-Quick-Start-Guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

DMP (Data Management Planning) Melbourne allows you to write, edit, share, and export data management plans that meet institutional, regulatory, and funding body requirements.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/7/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/Digital-Scholarship/training_and_outreach/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

A discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

MAXQDA is a software designed for computer-assisted qualitative and mixed methods data, text, and multimedia analysis.

https://www.maxqda.com/shop/order?tab=students

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

A versatile suite of programs for phonetic studies. It assists the researcher by producing graphical representations of audio recordings in form of spectrograms, cochleagrams, and excitation patterns. Praat also has tools to perform formant, pitch and intensity analysis, among others. This tool also allows for annotating and manipulating audio files. Praat uses a graphical user interface but can be customised by writting code.

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Annotation and transcription tool for video and audio analysis. Users can add unlimited annotations to audiovisual material as sentences, words or translations. This tool allows connecting up to 4 different video files.

https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

TwistedWave is a full featured audio editor that allows you to edit audio files from your computer or your Google Drive.

https://twistedwave.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Open-source tool to convert video from many different formats to commonly used and widely supported codecs/formats.

https://handbrake.fr

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Audacity allow users recording, editing, combining and exporting sound files in different formats. This tool also includes a spectrogram view model for visualising sound files facilitating frequency analysis on sound tracks.

https://www.audacityteam.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/editing-audio-with-audacity

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

A Python library for sound analysis. Contains several tools for producing graphical representations of sound data including spectrograms and waveplots. Librosa can also be used for performing quantitative anlaysis on sound files such as Fourier transforms, and provides tools for feature extraction and genera classification using deep learning libraries.

https://librosa.org/doc/latest/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Charts

Commercial software for numerical computing. It has tools for performing various analyses, including statistics, image, video and audio processing. It also includes a rich library of algorithms for machine and deep learning tasks. Most work is done by coding, although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are available for performing specific tasks.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html

University of Melbourne Supported: https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Statistics

Open source machine learning algorithms written in Java for mining potentially very large datasets made up of text (text mining), numerical data, and images and speech, among others. Weka also includes tools for performing analysis on the fetched data including classification, clustering and visualisation of patterns in data. Weka authors offer free online tutorials for learning how to use this tool, and have authored a book detailing the theoretical principles and practical use of this tool.

https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Textual Analysis

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Staella is a music visualiser that creates visual feedback from audio input.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/staella-music-visualizer/id1370376584

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts

Create interactive fiction games.

https://twinery.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/interactive-text-games-using-twine

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Collections

Audacity allow users recording, editing, combining and exporting sound files in different formats. This tool also includes a spectrogram view model for visualising sound files facilitating frequency analysis on sound tracks.

https://www.audacityteam.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/editing-audio-with-audacity

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Commercial software for numerical computing. It has tools for performing various analyses, including statistics, image, video and audio processing. It also includes a rich library of algorithms for machine and deep learning tasks. Most work is done by coding, although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are available for performing specific tasks.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html

University of Melbourne Supported: https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/software

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Statistics

Local database

https://www.claris.com/filemaker/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://support.claris.com/s/article/FileMaker-Beginner-Resources?language=en_US

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

A commercial text extraction tool by Adobe. It can convert Portable Document Format (pdf) files into plain text (.txt) or word porcessing files (.docx, .rtf). It can also be used to edit pdf files directly and designing interactive forms.

https://www.adobe.com/au/acrobat.html

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

Commercial pdf text extractor and OCR. Fine Reader converts PDF documents into other file formats readable by word processors. ABBYY Fine Reader can also edit PDF documents and extract text and tables from these files.

https://pdf.abbyy.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

Selenium is a web scraping tool initially designed for website testing. It can take screenshots automatically, handle internet cookies and scrape data from websites containing JavaScript objects.

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. The University of Melbourne has institutional access to this software.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/18/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

Qualtrics is an online survey tool that allows users to easily create surveys, design them collaboratively and share responses with others. The University of Melbourne has institutional access to this software.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/19/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

PDFMiner is a text extraction tool for PDF documents.

https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

ParseHub is a free web scraping tool that can turn any site into a spreadsheet or API.

https://www.parsehub.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

OutWit Hub is a Web data extraction software application designed to automatically extract information from online or local resources. The University of Melbourne has institutional access to this software.

https://students.unimelb.edu.au/student-life/campuses-and-facilities/elearning-and-it/myuniapps

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

Docsplit is a Ruby Library that is used to split and extract contents from pdf files.

https://documentcloud.github.io/docsplit/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Data extraction

Stillo automatically archive important web pages through screenshots

https://www.stillio.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Collections

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published

https://openlibrary.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Collections

PDF.online provides a free online file converter for you to change your PDF to HTML format.

https://pdf.online/convert-pdf-to-html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

URL2PNG capture screenshots of any website directly from links.

https://www.url2png.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Web scraping

Sub-category: Digitise

Graph database

https://neo4j.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/dealing-with-big-data-and-network-analysis-using-neo4j

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

Automatically performs OCR on uploaded images and extracts images and embedded texts from pdf files

https://diging.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GECO/overview

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://diging.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GECO/pages

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Digitise

An online tool for extracting text from small (< 5Mb) image and pdf files stored in the researcher's computer or available online. It can recognise text in English and some Asian and Middle Eastern languages. It can return unformatted (flat) text or structured PDF files on request.

https://ocr.space

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Digitise

Octoparse helps researchers extract specific components of a webpage such as text, tables, or figures; without coding.

https://www.octoparse.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Data extraction

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music and websites.

https://archive.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

A comprehensive list of open data sources for Australian institutions. Includes code and no-code solutions for using/analysing the data as well as associated APIs. A must use resource for researchers interested in Trove.nla.gov.au and the GLAM sector.

https://glam-workbench.net/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

It is the most widely used open-source tool for OCR operations. It can recognise text from images and save it into flat text files (.txt), .pdf, or other formats recognised by most word processing software. Currently, there are tools to run Tesseract in different environments, such as Python (Pytesseract) and R (package tesseract). Tesseract also works as a client software to retrieve and process large quantities of image text using third-party APIs.

https://guides.nyu.edu/tesseract/software

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: The NYU Library prepared a simple guide for Tesseract first users (https://guides.nyu.edu/tesseract/usage). A more detailed tutorial is available at https://nanonets.com/blog/ocr-with-tesseract/, which covers advanced topics such as image preprocessing, OCR on texts with bounding boxes and images, and how to train Tesseract models for predicting text on challenging documents.

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Image to text

Scrapy is a tool for building 'crawlers' for scraping data from websites. A crawler is a program that recursively visits many websites looking for and extracting data.

https://scrapy.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: The website Let's learn About offers a ScraPy tutorial aimed at users without previous web scraping experience but with Python knowledge. This tutorial explains the basics of scraping and helps users to construct a crawler to scrape images and text from a website.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

Requests is a tool for Python allowing users to connect, query and fetch data directly from webpages or servers through APIs.

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

An open-source library for Python programming to extract text and images from pdf files programatically. PyPDF can also split, merge, crop and transfor pages of PDF files. User requires some basic knowledge of Python to use its basic and advanced functions.

https://pypdf2.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling out (scraping) text, hyperlinks and images from HTML and XML documents. With this tool, you can selectively extract data from web pages and rearrange them into tables or spreadsheets for further processing.

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXif_9RVadI&list=PL5-da3qGB5IDbOi0g5WFh1YPDNzXw4LNL&index=2) offers an introductory tutorial on using Beautiful Soup to extract text and hyperlinks from a newspaper web page.

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Data extraction

A commercial text extraction tool by Adobe. It can convert Portable Document Format (pdf) files into plain text (.txt) or word porcessing files (.docx, .rtf). It can also be used to edit pdf files directly and designing interactive forms.

https://www.adobe.com/au/acrobat.html

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

Commercial pdf text extractor and OCR. Fine Reader converts PDF documents into other file formats readable by word processors. ABBYY Fine Reader can also edit PDF documents and extract text and tables from these files.

https://pdf.abbyy.com

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Digitise

Open-source research data repository making data discoverable, reusable and citable

https://dataverse.ada.edu.au

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.6.1/user/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

An archive for digital sources preserving records of materials form endangered cultures from all over the world, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

https://www.paradisec.org.au

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.paradisec.org.au/about-us/training/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Data repository

The University of Melbourne institutional repository. It containst and preserves the academic output of the University of Melbourne academics and students, and provides open access version of stored research outputs where possible.

https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/communities/719f2e43-479d-5291-b761-3db23ca430d2

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/digital-collections/minerva

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Data repository

Open Source web content management system

https://wordpress.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://wordpress.com/learn/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: No, the University of Melbourne only actively supports the old version of Omeka, Omeka Classic. https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Omeka Classic is the old version of Omeka. Omeka S is the current version. Omeka is an open source content management system for creating digital collections and online exhibits.

https://omeka.org

University of Melbourne Supported: https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/creating-an-omeka-exhibit

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Github offers a cloud-based Git repository hosting service

https://github.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/open-scholarship/code-and-software

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Figshare is an open access data repository where researchers can preserve their research outputs, such as datasets, images, and videos and make them discoverable. The university has an institutional access to this software.

https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/resources/platforms-infrastructure-and-equipment/research-infrastructure-platforms/research-computing-services/services/data-storage-management/figshare

University of Melbourne Supported: https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/43/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://unimelb.libguides.com/openresearch/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

An online collaborative Latex editor used for writing, editing, and typesetting documents.

https://www.overleaf.com

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Tutorials

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Editing

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation

https://www.latex-project.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/latex-and-bibtex/overleaf

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Editing

Remotely stores Microsoft Office documents so that they can be accessed and edited using either web or applications downloaded into the researcher's computer. Sharepoint can be configured as a network drive accessible from the desktop or finder applications in a researcher's computer, or accessed by login into its webpage using a web browser. SharePoint allows UoM researchers to work collaboratively on the same document in realtime.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

The Melbourne Research Cloud (MRC) offers free on-demand computing resources to researchers at the University of Melbourne

https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/training/

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Reference management software.

https://www.zotero.org/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/zotero

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Reference management

Commercial word processing software.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/word

University of Melbourne Supported: https://staff.unimelb.edu.au/it-services-support/collaborate-with-microsoft-365

Free trial/plan: NO

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Editing

Secure data management platform for storing structured and unstuctured data. Mediaflux architecture allows including extra data to describe stored data making easier to find, navigate and relation large data sets. Data can associated with private or collaborative projects and shared among internal and external users using either login credential or unique access tokens. Data stored in Mediaflux can be acceessed either through a web-based application, Mediaflux Desktop, a stand alone application, Mediaflux Explorer, a network drive or programatically using Mediflux API. UoM staff and students can obtain access to this storage service by submitting a request to UoM Research Computing Services.

https://wiki-rcs.unimelb.edu.au/display/RCS/Mediaflux

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 3 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Management

BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse designed to help you turn big data into valuable insights.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/#section-7

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Database

Reference management software.

https://endnote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/reference-management-software/endnote

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Reference management

An open souruce reference management software for macOS systems with seamless integration to Latex installation.

https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/manual/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Reference management

Infonetica Ethics Review Manager (ERM) has now replaced Themis Workbench for human and animal ethics applications, amendments and reporting.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/54/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://www.infonetica.net/our-solutions/ethics-rm/

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Ethics

Evernote is a powerful tool that can help executives, entrepreneurs and creative people capture and arrange their ideas.

https://evernote.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314458-Using-Evernote-Quick-Start-Guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

DMP (Data Management Planning) Melbourne allows you to write, edit, share, and export data management plans that meet institutional, regulatory, and funding body requirements.

https://dataservices.research.unimelb.edu.au/services/7/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/Digital-Scholarship/training_and_outreach/data

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Data management

Sub-category: Editing

Trello is a simple, collaborative tool that lets you design, track and highlight projects.

https://trello.com/en

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://trello.com/guide

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Database

Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git

https://about.gitlab.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://gitlab.unimelb.edu.au/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/tutorials/

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

Github offers a cloud-based Git repository hosting service

https://github.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: https://library.unimelb.edu.au/open-scholarship/code-and-software

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Version control

A discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/

University of Melbourne Supported: YES

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Website

Sub-category: Collections

Open-source and commercial source code repository with version control by Atlassian.

https://bitbucket.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Database

Commonly called VS Code, this software is for editing code and other text based documents.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

University of Melbourne Supported: https://dashboard.hpc.unimelb.edu.au/software/vscode/

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials:

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Programming

Sub-category: Editing

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software package. It can be used to analyse unstructured text, audio, video, and image data such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles.

https://lumivero.com/products/nvivo/

University of Melbourne Supported: Instructions to download, install, and activate NVivo can be found here.

Free trial/plan: NVivo is commercial software, but the University of Melbourne offers a free enterprise license to staff and students.

Tutorials: The University's Digital Skills Training team offers free training sessions several times per year. Check the upcoming training sessions here.

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

MAXQDA is a software designed for computer-assisted qualitative and mixed methods data, text, and multimedia analysis.

https://www.maxqda.com/shop/order?tab=students

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

Tool for managing linguistic and cultural data. It assists the researcher through the various steps required for developing custom dictionaries including word collection, inter linearization of texts and morphological analysis. The software provides a graphical user interface.

https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Currently no known tutorials. Know of one? Drop us an email hass-taskforce@unimelb.edu.au

Difficulty: 1 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Database

A tool for visualising, exploring and manipulating network diagrams. Gephi is optimised to work with large networks produced by Social Network Analysis (SNA), making it easy to identify phenomena and patterns from the interaction of lower-level components such as nodes and edges. Gephi can also calculate statistics and typical metrics used for SNA.

https://gephi.org

University of Melbourne Supported: NO

Free trial/plan: YES

Tutorials: Gephi offers comprehensive documentation, including official tutorials on the use of various of its features. Tutorials include a quick start guide and detailed explanations of data visualisation with Gephi and its layout modes. The website also provides links to other resources produced by the Gephi user community, including tutorials for using Gephi's for analysing text and social media data.

Difficulty: 2 / 3

Category: Software

Sub-category: Charts