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Archetype

What works today

This is what the platform can do today: the capabilities that are live in the code, plus the ones that are partly there and still being finished. Most of it can be seen on the public instance at beta.archetype-pal.ink. Each capability is described in depth under For researchers; for what comes next, see the Roadmap.

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Live in the platform today.

Search & Browse

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Faceted search across a whole collection by script, scribe, date, place and text, over purpose-built indexes.

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Imaging & IIIF

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Deep-zoom examination of high-resolution page images, served and described with IIIF Image & Presentation.

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Annotation & TEI

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Marking up glyphs and scribal features on the image, and linking transcription to the exact region on a TEI model.

  • Follow-ups: a jump to unlinked passages, a confirm step before a drawn link is saved, and an inline @subtype axis in the TEI editor.
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Manuscript descriptions

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Structured TEI msDesc descriptions authored in the backoffice, rendered on the public manuscript page and searchable by facet.

  • Deferred to a later version: RNG/Schematron schema validation.
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Editorial Workflow

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Moving transcriptions from draft to reviewed to published, with an attributed, dated audit trail.

  • Next: a reviewer-assignee picker — the API already records an assignee; only the control to set it is missing.
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Lightbox & Collections

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Persistent worksets, side-by-side comparison of hands, sticky notes and shareable views for research and teaching.

  • Backlog: filter presets, workspace templates, freeform crop, px↔mm measurement calibration, richer image notes, offline use.
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Data Model

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The structured vocabulary a palaeographer works with: manuscripts, hands, glyphs, annotation graphs and TEI texts.

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Collection management

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A staff backoffice for the corpus itself: resumable image upload per item part, served as lossless JP2 over IIIF; moving an image to another item part; and per-language site labels for project-specific copy such as the home page.

  • Not yet: a sub-folder chooser and semi-automatic bulk assignment of uploads to item parts.

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Partly shipped; more underway.

Interoperability & Standards

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Standards-based export and import so the scholarship is portable and citable.

  • Shipped: W3C Web Annotations (JSON-LD) and IIIF Presentation 3 export; TEI and HTR (PAGE-XML/ALTO) import.
  • Next: a reverse W3C-annotation → graph import path.
  • Next: a IIIF Collection endpoint spanning multiple manuscripts.
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Reviewed against the codebase · 2026-10-01