The world’s archives, read together
Collatorium
Weaving patterns from the page.
“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.”Ada Lovelace, Note A, 1843
First time here? Click Connect your Box folder (top right). In the window that opens, click Box in the left sidebar and then Select. Chrome will ask to allow reading and saving: click Allow. Your archives appear below.
Archives Photographs and transcriptions stay in each project's Box folder. This site holds only the viewer.
Connect your Box folder to see the archives.
How a reading becomes text
LookEvery image checked by eye, right way up, at full resolution.
Read blindIndependent readers, letters before words, refuse rather than guess.
CompareAgreement is not proof. Every name, number and date gets a letter-by-letter check.
RuleWhat no reader can settle goes to a human, one spot at a time, with the evidence.
KeepEvery ruling, reader and change logged. Nothing overwritten, nothing deleted.