Digital Humanities Python Packages

pyzotero

Pyzotero: a Python client for the Zotero API

synesis

Synesis is a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) compiler that transforms qualitative research annotations into canonical knowledge structures.

dhlab

DHLAB is a library of python modules for accessing text and pictures at the National Library of Norway.

mesomath

A robust sexagesimal and metrological engine for Babylonian mathematics. From the Eduba to the Jupyter Notebook.

mapreader

A computer vision pipeline for exploring and analyzing images at scale

booknlp

Natural language processing pipeline for book-length documents (archival Java version; for current Python version, see: https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp)

thunderdots

ThunderDoTS – Python package for scrapping and convert DTS ressources via DoTS

renoir-wikiart

A lightweight Python package for teaching computational methods through art history. Extract and analyze artist-specific works from WikiArt with built-in visualizations. Designed for digital humanities and computational design courses. Features genre/style analysis, matplotlib integration, and pedagogical clarity over algorithmic complexity.

logmap

A hierarchical, context-manager logger utility with multiprocess mapping capabilities

kalmus

KALMUS Color Toolkit for color analysis and visualization in film studies.

chandassu

Chandassu: First Python Library for Global Metrical Poetry

bitig

Next-generation computational stylometry — a Python replacement for R's Stylo

tracealign

Pairwise philological alignment library with pluggable language packs — semi-global Needleman–Wunsch with affine gaps and abbreviation-span lookahead. Ships with a Biblical/Rabbinic Hebrew pack.

synthpopcan

Canadian synthetic population tooling for StatCan margin tables and Census microdata.

pycorpdiff

Comparative corpus analysis for Python: keyness, collocations, semantic shift, temporal trajectories with changepoints + causal inference.

ads-bib

Pipeline for querying and turning NASA's ADS publications metadata into curated, analysis-ready datasets, topic maps, and citation networks.

inafaceanalyzer

INA's library with pretrained models for gender and age prediction from faces.

undate

A Python library for working with fuzzy, mixed-precision, or otherwise uncertain dates in multiple calendars

pystylometry

Comprehensive Python toolkit for stylometry

booknlp-plus

Natural language processing pipeline for book-length documents (archival Java version; for current Python version, see: https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp)

apple-silicon-booknlp

Natural language processing pipeline for book-length documents (archival Java version; for current Python version, see: https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp)

atlaspi-mcp

Structured historical geographic database built for AI agents

natas

Python 3 library for processing historical English

eleutheria

AI-powered scholarly platform for ancient debates on free will, fate & moral responsibility (6th c. BCE–6th c. CE). Vectorless agentic GraphRAG over a FAIR knowledge graph + Greek/Latin critical-edition corpus — citation-verified, multi-LLM. Live at free-will.app