Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 96.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: Virginia Knight <Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk> (14)
Subject: Re: 17.094 image-enhancement
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (26)
Subject: image-enhancement
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:46:56 +0100
From: Virginia Knight <Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 17.094 image-enhancement
My colleagues at TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images:
http://www.tasi.ac.uk) may have some advice, although problems relating
specifically to manuscripts aren't covered in their online guides AFAIK.
They may also be interested in hearing about what you learn from your
experiences! If you search the TASI site on 'manuscripts' you get links to
case studies of various projects which have digitised manuscripts.
Virginia Knight
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:47:20 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: image-enhancement
Tito Orlandi's quotation from the Manoscritti Palinsesti Criptensi
(Ravenna-Parma 1998) in Humanist 17.94 is very much to the point: "It is
manifestly impossible to propose one technique universally valid, and
applicable with similar results to every kind of manuscript". That's
exactly why I suggested a bit earlier that what we need is a brief manual
of techniques -- a "tricks-of-the-trade" approach. Although no one
universal technique would work, surely the common problems, such as
bleed-through, call for common approaches with tools such as Photoshop's
--- or Roberto Rosselli Del Turco's (Humanist 17.90). The original image in
the sequence of transformations shown at
http://islp.di.unipi.it/bifrost/vbd/interfaccia.html is quite legible, the
sequence itself shows the kind of operation I have in mind.
Fotoscientifica re.co.rd. http://www.fotoscientificarecord.com/, cited by
Orlandi, and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/ show what can be done with significant investment
of resources. But in many circumstances, even ideally, I would think,
putting the tools and/or instruction in how to use common tools into the
hands of the individual scholar is what we want to see happen. The
palaeographer's job can be made easier.
Citations of other experiments in manuscript image-manipulation would be
most welcome.
Yours,
WM
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