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* About: http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/ | |||
* Raw data: http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/ | |||
==Project manager== | |||
* | * Michael B. Toth | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
The '''Archimedes Palimpsest''' is a thirteenth-century Greek prayer book written on parchment reused from much older scientific manuscripts, including works (some heretofore lost) of Archimedes, Hypereides, a commentary on Aristotle, and others. The digitization project, which ran from ten years from 1998-2008, applied the latest digital imaging techniques, including multispectral imaging, to recover as much of the concealed text and diagrams as possible. | |||
===Outcomes of the project included:=== | |||
# A public presentation of the project, the imaging story, descriptions and editions of the new texts, and a museum display in the Walters Art Gallery where the palimpsest is housed. | |||
# An open access, Creative Commons-licensed repository of the photographs, enhaced and filtered images, metadata and raw EpiDoc/TEI XML transcriptions of both surface and concealed texts on each page. | |||
# A presentation of the scientific manuscripts, published openly and free through Google Books. | |||
# Hard drives containing the approximately 1TB of raw image data, mailed to interested academics around the world. | |||
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Revision as of 12:49, 30 October 2018
Available
- About: http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
- Raw data: http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/
Project manager
- Michael B. Toth
Description
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a thirteenth-century Greek prayer book written on parchment reused from much older scientific manuscripts, including works (some heretofore lost) of Archimedes, Hypereides, a commentary on Aristotle, and others. The digitization project, which ran from ten years from 1998-2008, applied the latest digital imaging techniques, including multispectral imaging, to recover as much of the concealed text and diagrams as possible.
Outcomes of the project included:
- A public presentation of the project, the imaging story, descriptions and editions of the new texts, and a museum display in the Walters Art Gallery where the palimpsest is housed.
- An open access, Creative Commons-licensed repository of the photographs, enhaced and filtered images, metadata and raw EpiDoc/TEI XML transcriptions of both surface and concealed texts on each page.
- A presentation of the scientific manuscripts, published openly and free through Google Books.
- Hard drives containing the approximately 1TB of raw image data, mailed to interested academics around the world.