alterlab-digital-humanities

alterlab-digital-humanities is a skill for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,681 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A digital humanities toolkit applies computing to the study of culture, history, language, and society. It covers text analysis, digital archives, maps, networks, and authorship research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze text, build or describe digital archives, map historical data, study relationships, compare writing styles, and prepare digitized sources for research.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find patterns across large or dispersed collections that are difficult to inspect by reading alone, while keeping human interpretation central.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-domain-specific plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyze text, build or describe digital archives, map historical data, study relationships, compare writing styles, and prepare digitized sources for research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-digital-humanities
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-digital-humanities
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-domain-specific, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,681 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00142 $0.02681
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01340
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00536
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00268

Measured 7d ago against content hash 141af4d443e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-digital-humanities scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/domain-specific/alterlab-digital-humanities/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Digital Humanities Methods and Tools

Overview

Digital humanities (DH) applies computational methods to the study of human culture, history, language, and society. It is not the replacement of humanistic inquiry with algorithms but the augmentation of interpretive scholarship with tools that can reveal patterns invisible to unaided reading, connect dispersed archives, visualize historical processes, and make cultural heritage accessible to broader audiences.

This skill covers the major computational methods used in humanities research: text mining and natural language processing (topic modeling with LDA and BERTopic, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition), corpus linguistics (concordance, collocation, frequency analysis, keyness), digital archiving and metadata standards (Dublin Core, TEI XML), geographic information systems (GIS) for historical research, network analysis of historical figures and literary characters, stylometry and computational authorship attribution, optical character recognition (OCR) workflows for digitizing historical texts, digital scholarly editions, data visualization for humanities data, distant reading as theorized by Franco Moretti, cultural analytics as developed by Lev Manovich, and the Python ecosystem for humanities computing (spaCy, NLTK, Voyant Tools, AntConc).

The skill is designed for humanities scholars who want to integrate computational methods into their research -- whether they are analyzing Victorian novels, mapping colonial trade networks, studying the evolution of political rhetoric, or building digital archives of endangered languages. No prior programming experience is assumed, though some methods require basic Python or R skills. For each method, the skill describes the intellectual rationale, practical implementation, available tools (from no-code to full programming), and critical perspectives on the method's limitations.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Apply topic modeling (LDA, BERTopic) to a large text corpus to discover thematic patterns
  • Perform sentiment analysis on historical texts, literary works, or political discourse
  • Extract named entities (people, places, organizations, dates) from unstructured text
  • Conduct corpus linguistics analysis: concordance, collocation, frequency, keyness
  • Create or work with digital archives using Dublin Core or TEI XML metadata standards
  • Use GIS to map historical events, trade routes, migration patterns, or spatial narratives
  • Build and analyze networks of historical figures, literary characters, or intellectual influence
  • Attribute authorship of disputed texts using stylometry and computational methods
  • Digitize historical documents using OCR (Tesseract, Kraken, Transkribus)
  • Create digital scholarly editions with critical apparatus
  • Visualize humanities data using Palladio, Gephi, or custom tools
  • Apply distant reading methods to analyze literary trends across large corpora
  • Conduct cultural analytics on visual media, social media, or digital culture
  • Work with Python NLP tools (spaCy, NLTK) for humanities text analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 147 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 141af4d443e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alterlab-digital-humanities is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,681 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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