aqoHISTORY
A Question of History
From forgotten artefacts, we unlock hidden insights, use AI to uncover new connections, and tell the stories they reveal — differently.
Historic documents and wartime correspondence
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aqoHISTORY Experiment

Document Viewer

A page-turning way to read a multi-page archival item end to end — here the 36 pages of Carey’s World War Atlas — with every page searchable by its own heading and text.

Cover of Carey's World War Atlas
One bound item, thirty-six pages: maps, tables, aircraft and warship plates, and the Atlantic Charter.

Experiment ID: aqoh-exp4

Status: proof of concept

Feature: 3D page-turn viewer + page-level metadata search for any multi-page item

Turning the pages of a whole document

Books, booklets and multi-page documents survive as a sequence, and they are best understood that way. This experiment presents an item as a book you can leaf through, jump around with a thumbnail strip, search by what is printed on each page, and open any single page full-screen to zoom and pan.

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What this experiment tests

The viewer is driven entirely by item-data.json: the page images, each page’s derived heading, its full transcribed text (shown in the details panel, expandable per page) and simple metadata (page position, what kind of content it carries, how many text blocks were captured). The text filter searches the complete transcription, not just the headings. The same page could be reused for any item with multiple elements — a letter with several sheets, a photograph album, a booklet — by pointing it at a different data file.

It also tests reading ergonomics: a two-page spread with a real page-turn on wider screens, a single-page mode, keyboard navigation (← →, f to zoom, Esc to close), a thumbnail strip, and a text filter that dims pages that do not match and steps between the ones that do.