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Archival Discovery Through Network Graph Morphisms
  DOI :  10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2026.23.1.4  Published Online :  July 2026
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Digitized special collections archives are discoverable largely through full-text search via indexing and categorical methods of librarianship expressed in finding aid arrangement, which privileges established terms and inherited description. By contrast, this work is a computational arrangement method that compares clustered sentence embedding structures to promote discovery when lexicon and semantic terms differ. We explore modeling texts as a graph of directed semantic displacements in a vector embedding space and conceptualize sections of these graphs as an extrinsically comparable morphism. We evaluate these graph structures as a semiotic medium by comparing alignments across graphs from various types of OCR texts, and language-like noise datasets. Findings suggest potential interoperative value in morphism aligned text. Work sees potential applications for interdisciplinary discovery and unsupervised archival arrangement.

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Jeremiah Colonna-Romano, "Archival Discovery Through Network Graph Morphisms"  in Archiving Conference,  2026,  pp 12 - 17,  https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2026.23.1.4

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