  We outline a paradigm to preserve results of digital scholarship, whether
they are query results, feature values, or topic assignments. This paradigm is
characterized by using annotations as multifunctional carriers and making them
portable. The testing grounds we have chosen are two significant enterprises,
one in the history of science, and one in Hebrew scholarship. The first one
(CKCC) focuses on the results of a project where a Dutch consortium of
universities, research institutes, and cultural heritage institutions
experimented for 4 years with language techniques and topic modeling methods
with the aim to analyze the emergence of scholarly debates. The data: a complex
set of about 20.000 letters. The second one (DTHB) is a multi-year effort to
express the linguistic features of the Hebrew bible in a text database, which
is still growing in detail and sophistication. Versions of this database are
packaged in commercial bible study software. We state that the results of these
forms of scholarship require new knowledge management and archive practices.
Only when researchers can build efficiently on each other's (intermediate)
results, they can achieve the aggregations of quality data by which new
questions can be answered, and hidden patterns visualized. Archives are
required to find a balance between preserving authoritative versions of sources
and supporting collaborative efforts in digital scholarship. Annotations are
promising vehicles for preserving and reusing research results. Keywords
annotation, portability, archiving, queries, features, topics, keywords,
Republic of Letters, Hebrew text databases.
