All notable changes to the directory data are documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog. Historical entries were reconstructed from git history because older releases were not tagged. Dates refer to commit dates on the main history; older README-only changes sometimes record link-title rewrites as remove/add pairs.
- Added period filter and refined metadata badges.
- Added editorial transparency documentation, including an editorial policy, expanded contribution guidance, and clearer project responsibility notes.
- Added entry provenance fields for added dates, review status, authors, reviewers, and contributors.
- Backfilled entry provenance from git history with inferred dates, authors, and contributors.
- Updated external URLs for shifted resources.
- Added this reconstructed data changelog.
- Added
World Radio History. - Added
Kulturgüter der Schweiz online. - Added Zotero groups
Digitale QuellenkritikandHistorical Network Research. - Added
Critical AI Literacy for Historians. - Added six Southeast Asian and African database entries:
National Library of South Africa Digital Collections,ProQuest,South Asia Commons,South Asian Newspapers,Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV), andSoutheast Asian Newspapers.
- Reclassified
Southeast Asian & Caribbean Images (KITLV)from Netherlands to Global. - Classified resource types and periods across many structured entries.
- Migrated canonical data from
src/lib/data/entries.jsontodata/entries.json, then to individualentries/*.qmdpages with entry metadata and screenshot fields. - Marked placeholder screenshots explicitly after the Quarto migration.
- Removed outdated
We think History.
- Added
SKKG Digital Collection. - Added Icelandic resources:
handrit.is,islandskort.is,ÍSMÚS, andtímarit.is. - Added
EuroDocs – Online Sources for European History. - Added Dutch resources
Atlas of Mutual HeritageandTopotijdreis. - Added
Scripta Paedagogica. - Added
Grundlagen, Methoden und Anwendungen der Digital History. - Added
swissnatcoll.
- Updated the
handrit.isdescription. - Standardized language metadata, including EuroDocs language codes, removal of
mullanguage values, and conversion of Dendi to ISO codeddn. - Removed
sheet musicfrom a resource type field where it did not fit the allowed type vocabulary. - Normalized period values with validation and edge-case handling.
- Normalized and validated region, language, and resource type values.
- Updated
swissnatcollmetadata to English-only and modern-period classification.
- Removed
histHub.
- Added
West African Arabic Manuscript Database. - Added
Introduction to Python for Humanists. - Added
Sources Online.
- Added
Crafting Digital History,FOCAL,Fxtop,HathiTrust, andSammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen onlineduring the SvelteKit/data migration. - Added
Introduction to Digital History. - Added
transcriptiones. - Added
historicum.net. - Added
HMMLandPARC.
- Converted the README-first list into structured
entries.jsondata for the SvelteKit site. - Updated license, accessibility, reusability, security, and formatting metadata during several curation passes.
- Regenerated the README from structured data.
- Removed non-accessible or out-of-scope entries including
CENDARI,PICTURA paedagogica, andDigithek.
- Added
Mementowebandchgov. - Added
OpenHistoricalMapandWorld Historical Gazeteer. - Added
Public Books Database,Digital Transgender Archive,DigiBern, andHistory Toolkit. - Added
Deutsches ZeitungsportalandDigital Humanities. - Added archive entries
The National Archives,National Records of Scotland,National Archives,Nationaal Archief, andUnited Nations Archive. - Added learning resource
Python für Historiker:innen.
- Moved
British Libraryto the Great Britain section. - Began migrating data into the SvelteKit project structure late in the year.
- Removed
DHTools.
- Added
Institut national de l'audiovisuel,Bitsavers.org, andWorld Digital Library. - Added Austria-focused resources
ANNO,Mapire,Monasterium, andUni Frankfurt. - Added Great Britain and North America resources
British Library,Chronicling America, andDigital Public Library of America. - Added Swiss resources
arCHecoandKartenportal. - Added German resources
Archivportal,Bavarikon,Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek,Digitale Sammlungen,leo bw,SLUB Dresden,UB Heidelberg, andZLB. - Added
Tempopedia,LexM,Digitarium,Österreichische Mediathek,Wien Geschichte Wiki,Visual Archive Southeastern Europe,swisscollections,Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog,OpenCat,MARCHIVUM,Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, andGeospatial Historian. - Added computer-history resources
Computerarchiv Muenchen,Classic Computer Magazine Archive, andComputer Gaming World Museum. - Added
Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique,Année Politique Suisse,gotpapers.scene.org, andDHTools.
- Corrected minor typos.
- Removed
Digital History Wiki.
- Added
Project Gutenberg,Projekt Gutenberg,Digithek,Rijksstudio, andTinEye. - Added
NLS,Poppler,QPDF,ImageMagick, andOCRmyPDF. - Added
e-gs,Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland, andMissing Semester. - Added
Le Temps,Zefys,Ad*Access,The Proceedings of the Old Bailey,Women Working 1800-1930, andHIST3814o. - Added podcast-related entries including
15past15,Backstory,Revisionist History,Stuff You Missed in History Class,You're Dead To Me,Histoire Vivante,Podcast des Historischen Instituts der Universität Bern,Zeitblende, andCliocast. - Added
Amtsdruckschriften,DARIAH-DE Geo-Browser,The Vistorian,Recogito,The CTP Book,Eugenics Archive,map.geo.admin.ch,Docupedia,Local Linkages, andConsolation Prize. - Added
WayBackMachine,We think History,Computer History,Data Visualization,Research Tools, andScientific Writingduring the November scope refactor.
- Reorganized the README into broader regional and topical sections such as Europe, France, Germany, Global, Great Britain, Netherlands, North America, Switzerland, Learning, and More Awesome.
- Refined the list scope toward open, accessible digital-history resources.
- Replaced
Historical Dictionary of SwitzerlandwithHistorical Encyclopedia of Switzerland. - Removed
Scalar. - Removed many tool, podcast, center, platform, and social-media entries during the November scope refactor, including
JabRef,Tropy,Zotero,OpenArchive,Social Feed Manager,Transkribus,Textgrid,webrecorder.io,Voyant,Omeka,DHSlack, and several DH center and Twitter-list entries.
- Launched the directory with early archive, newspaper, map, tool, and learning resources including
Europeana,Archives Online,Archives Portal Europe,Internet Archive,E-Periodica,e-newspaperarchives.ch,MEMOBASE,COSMOV,Delpher,e-rara,e-manuscripta,Gallica,Transkribus,Open Semantic Search, andDocFetcher. - Added
Lexos,training.parthenos-project.eu,CENDARI,TextGrid,digitalhist.hypotheses.org,Spiegel Online,We think History,UCI Digital History,Clio Guide, andHSS Digital. - Added map and political-history resources including
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection,David Rumsey Map Collection,Ad*Access,Marxist Internet Archive, andTito's Home Page. - Added a large structured README pass with named resources such as
Current Research in Digital History,Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland,infoclio.ch Edition projects,Awesome Computer History,histHub,HSSO,timeSTAT Cubes,Industriekultur,Historical Dictionary of Switzerland,Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,AdFontes,Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook,StorylineJS,StorymapJS,TimelineJS,Gephi,Palladio,Zotero,JabRef,Tropy,webrecorder.io,Social Feed Manager,OpenArchive,Data Pen,Breve,Voyant,Scalar,Omeka, and several DH center resources. - Added
The Programming Historian,fxtop.com,HIST 7370,Open EU Data Portal,Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv,Data Augmentation,forText,Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education,AutoCat,OldMapsOnline,e-codices,Manifold,DHSlack, and several digital-history Twitter lists.
- Reordered sections, fixed titles and wording, and converted several bare URLs into named resources.
- Moved
guides.lib.uci.eduinto Learning.
- Removed
JSTORbecause it was not open access. - Removed
digitalhist.hypotheses.orgshortly after adding it. - Removed
dirtdirectory.orgbecause it was offline. - Removed
archives-online.orgonce because of 404s, then re-added it asArchives Online. - Removed
Tito's Home Pageafter it stopped responding.