The series Open Tools presents openly available tools supporting mostly qualitative SAP research. This post is about the Digital Research Tools Directory.

The Digital Research Tools (DiRT) directory is the tool for finding the right tools – a meta-tool, if you like. The landing page offers a broad variety of potential use cases for digital tools, ranging from analyzing data over converting and organizing files to transcribing audio, video or manuscripts, to name just a few.

The main reason why I love the DiRT directory, however, is its great and simple interface for limiting results in each category according to few but helpful criteria: In addition to restricting results to open source tools, you can even choose to only look at tools under a certain open source software license. Most of the future posts in this series will deal with tools I have found by browsing through the DiRT directory. (leonhard)