Semantic representation

Staff and software represent meaning-bearing material for a specified comparison. The material may include interview passages, object descriptions, references, annotations, volunteered questions, accounts of activities. Staff preserve links to the actual expression and context alongside any numerical or categorical representation.

An annotation about restoring a camera can be compared with a contributed repair skill. Software may locate related words or numerical patterns. A reviewer then examines the particular question and experience before preparing an invitation. Similar representations can refer to different meanings, purposes, dates.

Embeddings, centroids, interest clusters, distance provide different operations. The project can compare them with human curatorial reading. Researchers examine whether a method identifies useful specific relations, preserves differences, supports an understandable reason for contact.