Research projects
The Workspace is a place to work as well as a catalogue. A registered researcher has a set of tools under Research for gathering sources, thinking about them and writing up, alone or with others, with every source tied to the record it came from.
Gathering
- Collections (
/research/collections): named sets of records, each item with your note, to share by a link if you choose. - Bibliographies (
/research/bibliographies): reference lists of records and other works, exported as BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. - Annotations (
/research/annotations): notes on a record, or on a region of an image in the viewer. - Notebooks and a diary: your own notes, kept with the records they are about.
- Saved searches: see Saved searches.
Projects
A project (/research/projects) brings it together: its question, its team and their roles, its sources, and what it produces. Within a project:
- sources are records and works, each assessed for reliability and triaged by relevance;
- claims record what the sources show, each with its evidence, and contradictions between them are found and kept in view;
- analysis draws timelines, maps and the network of people and places across the project's sources, and finds the same person or place named differently;
- writing studios help draft the project's outputs, with their citations kept to the records;
- funding, plans, ethics, milestones, impact and outputs are recorded as a project needs them.
A project can be shared with others, each with a role, or opened by a link for someone without an account.
Working together
Workspaces (/research/workspaces) are shared spaces for a team: files, links and discussion around a body of work, with members and their roles.
Publishing what you find
- Submissions (
/research/submissions) send corrections or new information about a record to the institution, which reviews them before anything changes. - Journals (
/research/journals) and reports (/research/reports) publish what a project produced.
Keeping it honest
Every claim, note and source in a project is tied to the record it rests on by the record's persistent IRI, so what a project says can always be checked against the archive.