— How it Works
From source to insight
SARVAH organises information through five connected stages — the same stages you move through inside Qest.
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Collect
Documents, images, catalogues, databases, archival material and other sources are gathered within a controlled ingestion environment.
Structure
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Relevant information is extracted and organised into coherent entities and relationships — people, objects, places, dates, events, organisations, sources and the relationships between them.
Connect
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The information is normalised, disambiguated, enriched and linked by means of a knowledge graph across multiple sources.
Detect
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Documents, images, catalogues, databases, archival material and other sources are gathered within a controlled ingestion environment.
Explore
You examine the evidence, compare hypotheses and continue the investigation through Qest — the interface where these stages become something you can actually work with.
— Evidence remains visible
Results are never detached from their sourcess
SARVAH preserves the relationship between a proposition, the evidence supporting it, the sources from which it derives, the degree of uncertainty involved, and possible alternative interpretations.
Human and machine intelligence
SARVAH helps you explore larger bodies of material, identify relationships and structure hypotheses. Final interpretation remains informed by human judgement, specialist knowledge and critical examination of the evidence.
A layered and evolving architecture
SARVAH separates the collection, transformation, enrichment and interpretation of information into distinct functional layers — preserving original sources, tracing transformations and retaining outputs as versioned artefacts.