Fonds: The whole body of documents produced or received by a person or an organisation. In wondarchive, a fonds is a repository — what you see under “My fonds” — and contains shelfmarks.
Repository: The archive service where you took your photographs: “Cologne”, “The National Archives”. The top level of filing.
Shelfmark: The reference for a unit of conservation — a box, a register, a volume — exactly as the archive service writes it. In wondarchive, a shelfmark is a folder within a repository; when the reference is printed at the foot of the page, the tool reads it and suggests it for the pages that follow.
Folio: The number of a leaf. In wondarchive, every page is assigned a folio at deposit, in the order the shots were taken, and never loses it, even if it moves to another shelfmark: that’s what makes it possible to cite.
Leaf: A sheet of the document, with its front and back. A photograph is usually one leaf, sometimes a double-page spread.
Verso: The back of a leaf. Often blank: the tool recognises it and doesn’t invent text for it.
Bundle: Leaves gathered without binding. Photographed leaf by leaf, in order.
Transcription: The text of the page, as written, in its own language. In wondarchive, produced by AI from the original, whether printed, typewritten or handwritten.
Record: What the tool notes while reading: the nature of the item, its date, dates it mentions, proper names, the printed reference. Marked “unchecked” until you have reviewed it.
OCR: Optical character recognition: the automatic reading of printed or typewritten text. In wondarchive, free transcription on your computer is OCR; transcription by AI goes further. The guide.
HTR: Handwritten Text Recognition: the automatic reading of handwriting, long done by models trained on one particular hand. The guide.
Extra-strength reread: The reading of a page by our most precise model: automatically on handwritten pages, on every page at maximum quality. The guide.
Fraktur: The Gothic printing typeface of German-speaking countries, in common use until 1941. Transcribed by wondarchive like any other print. The guide.
Kurrent: German cursive handwriting, in use until 1941: letters, registers, deeds. Read by the extra-strength reread. The guide.
Sütterlin: The simplified form of Kurrent, taught in German schools from 1915 to 1941. The guide.
Palaeography: The study of old handwriting: deciphering it, dating it, placing it.
Notarial minutes: All of a notary’s minutes, that is, the originals of the deeds they drew up, filed by date.
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative: the standard XML format for publishing and exchanging scholarly texts. In wondarchive, TEI export is in preparation.
IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework: the standard for displaying and reusing the images of digital libraries, such as Gallica. In wondarchive, IIIF import is in preparation.

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