The DHW project, a Web-based workbench for digital humanities

The aim of this project is to provide a wide collection of useful text processing tools as Web services. This includes tools related to XML documents, DTDs, Schemas, XSLT processing, HTML, etc.

Most of these tools are already available, but to be useful, they have to be downloaded and properly installed on the user's machine. The idea of having them adapted and installed as form-based web services, allows for anyone to use them from anywhere, at any time, without the need of installation. This is particularly useful for teaching DH hands-on courses, where one of the main problems is to get all the necessary tools installed before the course takes place.

This set of on-line services will also suffice for emerging or small digitization projects, and as a display and workbench for DH scholars looking for tools.