Team & tools

Your research team: the people who read and rule, and the machine readers and tools they work with. Each person signs in with their own email; every reading, ruling and note is saved under their name.

People

Machine readers

They read; people decide. Agreement between them is a signal, never proof.

Handwriting recognition

Transkribus

Reads the hand letter by letter and outlines every line. Collatorium shows the exports you make from your own collections.

Primary reader

Claude (Anthropic)

Opus for first readings and adjudication; Sonnet for mechanical checks.

Supplemental model

ChatGPT / Codex (OpenAI)

Independent reading under anti-invention rules; sorts disagreements, never decides.

Supplemental model

Gemini (Google)

A model from a third company, reading the same images independently.

Research tools

References

Zotero

Sources and scholarship behind topic pages and the document library.

Photographs

Tropy

Organising and describing archive photographs.

Chronology

Aeon Timeline

Dates, people and events across a collection.

Crowd transcription

FromThePage

Collaborative transcription and indexing platform.

Reference works

Historical dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

A word's history, senses and dated quotations (UT subscription).

Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Lives of the people named in the papers (UT subscription).

Genealogy

The Peerage; Wikipedia

Family links and quick orientation; always checked against a scholarly source.

Period dictionaries

Word lists of the time

Johnson, Walker, Webster

Dictionaries the writers themselves could have used: spellings and senses as they stood then. Feed the word solver.

Infrastructure

Storage

Box

Photographs, transcriptions and every reader's answers. Collatorium reads and writes your Box folder in place.

Viewer

Collatorium

This site: it holds only code; your archive stays in Box.

Tools listed are those the team uses or plans to use; connections beyond reading exported files (for example a live link to Transkribus or the OED) are not built yet.