The digital atheneum: New approaches for preserving, restoring and analyzing damaged manuscripts

Michael S. Brown, W. Brent Seales

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Abstract

This paper presents research focused on developing new techniques and algorithms for the digital acquisition, restoration, and study of damaged manuscripts. We present results from an acquisition effort in partnership with the British Library, funded through the NSF DLI-2 program, designed to capture 3-D models of old and damaged manuscripts. We show how these 3-D facsimiles can be analyzed and manipulated in ways that are tedious or even impossible if confined to the physical manuscript. In particular, we present results from a restoration framework we have developed for "flattening" the 3-D representation of badly warped manuscripts. We expect these research directions to give scholars more sophisticated methods to preserve, restore, and better understand the physical objects they study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Pages437-443
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2001
EventProceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Roanoke, VA, United States
Duration: Jun 24 2001Jun 28 2001

Publication series

NameProceedings of First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRoanoke, VA
Period6/24/016/28/01

Keywords

  • Digital Libraries
  • Digital Preservation
  • Document Analysis
  • Humanities Computing
  • Image Restoration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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