A web-based tool for making and sharing research designed for authors, curators, and editors in the humanities is described, editorsnotes.org. Notes are a varied genre not limited to annotations. The data for the tool is modeled as three kinds of records: Notes created; Documents cited; and Topics, headings for names and subjects. Structured records are needed forinteroperability and sharing. Open access, sustainability issues, and how working notes can complement other infrastructure are discussed in a status report.

Scholarly annotated editions of historically important texts constitute an important foundation for understanding history and culture. Their preparation requires a sustained investment of highly specialized expertise and generates a rich corpus of research notes that are mostly not included in the eventual published volumes. Ordinarily these research resources are simply discarded. We examine the challenge of preserving working notes so that they could become the basis for future research and describe a shared website editornotes.org. © 2014 Society for Imaging Science and Technology.