Patterns are not simply there to be seen. You make them — in what you notice, and which threads you choose to draw together.
Collatorium collates the checked texts with other collections and archives, so you can follow people, letters, places and time. What you find can send a page back for a new reading.
Visualizing, in three steps
The same three ways in, for one collection: its own corpora, places and people.
Each life is a thread through places and years. Letters cross between threads; meetings happen where threads share a place; the wider world runs alongside.
The letter a page answered, the correspondence it belongs to, the writing around a life — in layers, from a person's own papers out to their period. Corpora →
Where people were and how they moved: rooms and buildings, period charts, today's map. Places →
When things happened — in a life, a circle and the world. A timeline view, working with Aeon Timeline, is planned; not built yet.
A conversation is often split between libraries — one side in your collection, the other in a university or national library's digitised holdings. Collatorium will set both sides in order, each with its page image and where it is kept.