Mirador and palimpsest manuscripts project briefing from UCLA at CNI Members Meeting Spring 2017
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Image viewing and manipulation with Mirador: Presentation by Elizabeth McAulay and Todd Grappone (UCLA Library) at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Members Meeting Spring 2017. This presentation is about a project to publish a research website for medieval palimpsests manuscripts using IIIF-compliant image server and IIIF-compliant viewer Mirador.
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- 1. Lorem Ipsum Dolor Image Viewing and Manipulation with Mirador Elizabeth McAulay, UCLA Todd Grappone, UCLA CNI Spring Members Meeting 2017
- 2. Sinai Palimpsests Project A collaborative project to digitize and make legible palimpsest manuscripts at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt
- 3. Palimpsests
- 5. image goes here to represent dozens of manuscripts Image goes here to represent st. Catherine’s Erased texts are illegible Dozens of palimpsest manuscripts Dozens of palimpsest manuscripts Held in a remote location
- 6. Multispectral Imaging • Different wavelengths of light used to illuminate the palimpsest • Multiple images taken from each folio • Fragility of manuscripts requires specialized equipment and careful handling
- 7. Project Goal Provide access to unknown texts for research
- 8. • Use best imaging science techniques to enhance legibility • Scholarly identification of texts Project Methods • Digital publication with all necessary features to conduct research online
- 9. No Problem! We’ve Got Tools …but maybe not enough time to use them!
- 10. Demonstration of Current Site
- 11. Planned Improvements • It shouldn’t be tooooooo hard…. • Add Page Title to Mirador Window Title Bar
- 12. Planned Improvements Streamlining or is it bug fixing or is it latency?
- 13. Discoveries • Erased text in Ethiopic and Latin • Earliest surviving copies of several texts from the Hippocratic corpus • Previously unknown classical Greek medical texts, poetry and philosophical treatise • Texts written in Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Caucasian Albanian that add significantly to the corpus of writing in this dead languages
- 14. Partners St. Catherine’s Monastery UCLA Library Arcadia Fund Early Manuscripts Electronic Library Thank you! Questions? & Discussion