The eHumanities Desktop has been developed as an online system to support research in the growing field of digital humanities. It provides an intuitive desktop environment, very much like the Windows Desktop, that supports uploading and organizing resources as well as sharing them with other users. Based on this basic resource management a growing number of applications are offered to process, analyze and explore documents online. The applications range from linguistic preprocessing of text into TEI P5 (TEI Consortium, 2010) and lexical resource management to text classification and image databases.