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Visualising Macroscopic Deterioration of Parchment and Writing via Multispectral Images

Giacometti, A; Campagnolo, A; MacDonald, L; Mahony, S; Terras, M; Robson, S; Weyrich, T; (2014) Visualising Macroscopic Deterioration of Parchment and Writing via Multispectral Images. In: Driscoll, MJ, (ed.) Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 15: proceedings of the fifteenth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 2nd - 4th April 2014. Museum Tusculanum Press: Copenhagen, Denmark. Green open access

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Abstract

Digital imaging technology can now produce detailed and trustworthy surrogates of historical documents. Leveraged by technological improvements in imaging and image processing, humanities scholars have been able to image, analyse, and recover more information from historical documents than was previously possible. Multispectral imaging has been utilised to examine the characteristics of documents by providing additional information about their physical properties and condition. However, current digitisation efforts have concentrated on recording documents in their current state. In this project we used multispectral imaging to record the process of macroscopic document degradation by imaging a parchment document before and after a series of degradation processes. This project is part of a larger effort to investigate the methodologies for acquiring and processing multispectral images of damaged cultural heritage documents.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Visualising Macroscopic Deterioration of Parchment and Writing via Multispectral Images
Event: Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 15
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://nfi.ku.dk/cc/previousseminars/care-and-cons...
Language: English
Additional information: This paper will be published by the Museum Tusculanum Press in 2016
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1462137
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