What does it mean to digitize a medieval manuscript? This book examines this question by exploring a range of advanced imaging technologies. The author focuses on the relationship between digital technologies and the complex materiality of manuscripts and the human bodies that engage them.The chapters explore imaging technologies, interfaces to present digital surrogates, and limitations to and enhancements through the digital, plus historical photographs. Essential reading for all those involved in manuscript digitization projects in both scholarly and cultural heritage contexts.
- Front Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Body
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Recovery: From Multispectral Imaging to Alternative Colour Spaces
- Decisions and Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Recovery of Water-Damaged and Worn Text
- Alternative Colour Spaces
- Decorrelation Stretch
- Erasures
- Erasures, Pages 37 and 78
- Erasure on Page 3
- Page 141
- Recovering Pigments
- Concluding Comments
- Note
- Chapter 2. Reflectance Transformation Imaging: An Enhanced View of Surface Details
- Decisions and Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Concluding Comments
- Note
- Chapter 3. The Otherwise Unknowable: Digitizing and Comparing Historical Photographs
- Decisions and Method
- An Open-Source Solution
- Results and Discussion
- Concluding Comments
- Note
- Chapter 4. Sacred Artefacts: Open Access, Power, Ethics, and Reciprocity
- Decision and Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Concluding Comments
- Note
- Chapter 5. A Crisis in Knowledge-Space? A Look Toward Virtual Reality
- Decisions and Method
- Twenty-Two to Thirty-Three Senses
- Distributed Model of the Mind: Embodied Thinking
- Knowledge-Spaces
- OVAL: The Oklahoma Virtual Academic Library
- Results and Discussion
- Dialectic
- Manuscript
- Book
- Web 2.0 as a Knowledge-Space and Guide for VR
- Concluding Thoughts
- Note
- Back matter
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