Connect your folder
Point Chrome at the folder that holds your photographs and transcriptions — Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or a plain disk. The browser reads it in place.
Works with the folders you already useThe world’s archives, read together
Collatorium
Weaving patterns from history’s pages.
Every reading of a page, side by side. Settle the hard spots yourself. Keep the record — in your own files.
How it works
Collatorium weaves twice. First it weaves people and machines together to read the archive. Then it weaves what they read back into the history around it.
Part oneTranscribeweaving people and machines into one readingHow it works →
Read and compare
Every leaf at full resolution, right way up. Every text laid side by side — people, handwriting recognition, AI systems reading independently — with the close-up for each disputed spot.
Tested, logged and checkedRule and keep
Choose a reading, correct a word, flag a doubt. Each click is saved to your folder under your name, with the evidence, and never overwritten.
Every decision credited to youPart twoWeave the historical networkweaving the sources back into the history around themSee the connections →
Collate across archives
Set a letter beside its reply, wherever each is kept now — your collections and the digitised holdings of other libraries.
One conversation, many archivesLink people, places and dates
The checked texts name people, places and days. Each becomes a point that can be followed from page to page.
Every link traced to its pageSee the network
Follow lives through letters, places and time: who wrote to whom, who met where, and what was happening in the world.
History, interwovenSign up for free
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