Welcome to the Archetype project’s home organization!
This is the central hub for all things Archetype — a modular and extensible platform for digital palaeography and annotations.
Archetype is freely-available software for structured annotations of images which allows users to search for, view, and organise detailed characteristics of handwriting or other material in both verbal and visual form. Designed primarily for the palaeographical analysis of handwriting, Versions 1 and 2 were developed and maintained by King's Digital Lab at King's College London for the DigiPal, Models of Authority and Exon Domesday projects and are still available from the KDL GitHub repository. The current version (Archetype 3) is a complete rewrite of the software supported by the OG(H)AM project at the University of Glasgow.
To set up Archetype in a production environment, please follow the instructions in the
👉 infrastructure repository.
Have questions, ideas, or feedback? Join the discussion!
Head over to GitHub Discussions for both technical and non-technical topics.
You can follow the progress on different issues on this project.
Archetype is designed to be easily customizable. To contribute or build on top of it, check out:
- 🎨 frontend – for UI components, layout, and design.
- ⚙️ backend – for APIs, logic, and data handling.
Thank you for being part of the Archetype community 💙