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Embodying Scholarly Annotations in the Network of Digitized Archives

2025

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The increasing availability of digitized archives presents new opportunities for scholarly research, yet effective reuse of these resources requires infrastructure that is interoperable with open data. This paper presents a novel annotation platform for the scholarly research on visual material, based on a customization of the ResearchSpace platform. By directly integrating images served via the IIIF Image API (v2/v3), the system ensures a high level of digital provenance and source reliability, crucial for research in history-oriented humanities.

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Digitization

Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format. The result is the representation of an object, , sound, document, or signal (usually an analog signal) obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of points or samples. The result is called digital representation or, more specifically, a , for the object, and digital form, for the signal.

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The Internet Archive is an American digital library founded on May 10, 1996, and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle. It provides free access to collections of digitized materials like websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive is also an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds more than 39 million print materials, 11.6 million pieces of audiovisual content, 2.6 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.

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Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansion on past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole.

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