The expected users of the platform:
- People interested in HEMA in general
- Practitioners
- Casual Researchers
- Researchers that are accredited with SHEMAS
- Researchers from other fields not related to HEMA
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Practitioners and Casual Researchers
To anyone the platform offers the following:
- Access to all published content
- Bibliography, reference and citation tools
- Ease of comparison
- Annotations and bookmarking
- Synchronization across devices
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Accredited Researchers
To accredited researchers the platform offers the following:
- Access to private source data
- Access to projects that are in progress
- Sharing work for selected audiences
- Content maintenance, including identification tools for text, images and videos
- Image enhancement and image analysis tools
- Interfaces to facilitate transcripts and translations
- Remote storage, synchronization and ownership control
- Numerous statistical analysis tools
- Automatic glossary creation tools
- Assistance with extracting meaningful syntactic content
- Tools that facilitate collaboration between researchers
- Tools that facilitate crowd-sourcing hypotheses testing