Take ownership of your digital assets – from first upload to long-term preservation

Research assets are more valuable than ever, and more vulnerable than ever – scattered across institutional systems, dependent on short-term funding, and increasingly hostage to third-party platforms whose priorities aren't yours.

annostor is a new kind of research data service. It helps individual scholars and institutions manage, enrich, share, publish, and preserve heterogeneous digital material – from images and notes to complex research sources – using open standards, secure collaboration, and sovereignty-first infrastructure.

With IIIF, WADM, persistent identifiers, and flexible hosting and exit options, annostor makes your digital assets easier to organise, discover, reuse, and safeguard for the future – with full sovereignty over where it lives, who can access it, and what happens to it long-term.

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People are using annostor to enrich biodiversity datasets

→ Individual researchers

Scholar

Stop losing work when the project ends

Build research that stays usable, shareable, ... and yours

Your research material rarely lives in one place or one format. Field observations, archival images, PDFs, annotations, notes, and source collections quickly become difficult to manage — and even harder to preserve, publish, or share with confidence.

annostor gives you a secure, standards-based environment to bring these materials together, enrich them with annotations and metadata, and generate interoperable outputs that remain usable over time.

Annotate and enrich heterogeneous material — images, documents, audio, video, observations, notes — in one place
Share securely with collaborators with granular, ORCID-based access control
Publish to open repositories and mint PIDs within a single workflow
Export technology-independent archive files for safe offline preservation
No dependency on institutional infrastructure or continued funding

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→ Research institutions

Institution

Digital infrastructure for the long run – not just the next budget cycle

Protect your digital collections, support research, enable digital scholarship and reduce technology dependency

Universities, libraries, archives, museums and other research institutions have spent decades digitising irreplaceable collections. Too often their investment sits in systems that are proprietary, fragile, or third-party platforms they no longer fully control. And when institutions merge, restructure, or lose funding — collections disappear.

annostor is a data sovereignty platform built for institutions that take the long view. It integrates with your existing data services and infrastructure, so adoption doesn't mean disruption. Geographic diversification and state-of-the-art security mean your data are resilient to political turbulence, technical failure and organisational change.

Manage heterogeneous collections from a single platform, without replacing existing systems: ingest, enrich, annotate, share, publish, preserve, and retrieve
Enrich and annotate digital assets using IIIF and WADM standards, mint persistent identifiers, to maximise reuse and discoverability without sacrificing control
Granular access control for staff, researchers and external contributors to ensure responsible use
European-hosted, no third-party cloud, to meet the strictest data governance requirements
Clean exit strategies: full ownership of your data, always, on your terms

annostor offers a way to build and extend digital collections while preserving institutional control, investment, and resilience – all without locking you into a single technical future.

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