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🖼️ Project Showcase

tAKITA is/was a building block for collaborative scholarly annotations in the following projects:

	CRC 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
	ToRoll: Materialized Holiness. Torah scrolls as a codicological, theological, and sociological phenomenon of Jewish scribal culture in the Diaspora
	CRC 1475 "Metaphors of Religion". Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use

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📝 Guides and other materials

• short user guide (in German) for annotation use case in crc980

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💡 Trivia

tAKITA was initially developed in 2020 as a student's project at the department of informatics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The project was called TUHL (To Unravel Historic Literature). The prototype for the idea behind TUHL, on the other hand, had been a plain javascript tool based on the SemToNotes library. This tool had initially been called AKITA.

AKITA was an acronym (Another Kit for Image Tagging and Annotation), a hiding spot for its place of origin (a-KIT-a), and last not least a dog bread (🐕) - both clever and with a stubborn mind of its own. To complete confusion, on further development of TUHL into a full-fledged open source annotation web editor AKITA became tAKITA - if the attachment of the letter t happened in honor of its ancestor, or as an indication for extension to text annotation functionalities may be the stuff of legends by now. The watchful eye may still find traces of this naming history - in code, screenshots, materials and publications. Old names stick.

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