The Arvest ecosystem
Arvest is the main environment: online, nothing to install, and made to be easy for anyone, students, researchers, archivists, artists. Around it are tools for more specialised work. The browser extension brings the web in. mmm and the LA-PA editor run on your own computer, for corpora that stay with you and for expert work: reading whole archives with language models, writing sourced, structured history. They all speak IIIF and talk to Arvest.
| Tool | Runs | For | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arvest | Online, in your browser | Everyone | Available |
| Browser extension | Your browser (Chrome) | Anyone who collects from the web | Release coming soon |
| mmm | Your computer | Researchers with large archives | Release coming soon |
| LA-PA editor | Your computer | Historians and archivists | Release coming soon |
Arvest
Where documents are gathered, compared, annotated, linked and shared: images, video, sound, texts and PDFs, all as IIIF. An account is all you need, and everything the other tools make ends up here.
With the others- Takes in what the extension collects
- Shows mmm's local corpus, with its answers as data
- Gives the LA-PA editor its manifests as sources
Browser extension
Collects the media of a page into Arvest, or captures a page or a whole site as an annotated IIIF manifest.
With the others- The web → Arvest documents
mmm
Reads every file of a corpus with a language model and describes it with your own questions, then serves the corpus to Arvest without uploading it.
With the others- Local files → Arvest, through the connector
- Answers → Arvest metadata
- Arvest documents → the corpus
LA-PA editor
Sourced, structured, agile historiography: a Linked Art graph in which every assertion is tied to its source, exported as JSON-LD.
With the others- Arvest manifests → sources
- The graph → Linked Art, Gephi, CSV