DHTK: The Digital Humanities ToolKit

Digital Humanities have the merit of connecting two very different disciplines such as humanities and computer science. In this paper we present a new python library, The Digital Humanities ToolKit (DHTK), whose scope is to provide a fast and intuitive tool for a largescale study of large literary databases by leveraging on some well-known semantic knowledge resources. In addition, DHTK has the ambition to go beyond textual resources to integrate other human resources such as images (e.g., paintings, comics, etc) or sounds (e.g., music, transcripts, etc). DHTK is a collaborative project and we invite anyone who has the interest or some ideas in this context to reach out to us.