Building on advances in imaging technology, teams of specialists have refined spectral imaging capabilities and adapted them to meet the needs of cultural heritage and digital humanities (DH) research. Proven advanced spectral imaging equipment, techniques and work processes have become standardized tools to support cultural heritage studies of manuscripts, materials and objects. University College London and other institutions are advancing spectral imaging and digitization capabilities for cultural heritage studies. Advanced imaging systems allow studies of the overall object, as well as specific key areas of interest, with transfer of digital data to DH scholars, curators and conservators for further evaluation and study.
Spectral imaging and digitization now provides important data for study in institutions ranging from the ancient library of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai and the Vatican Apostolic Library to the Petrie Museum (UCL), Library of Congress and private collections. Wherever they are located and whatever culture they represent, each institution is grappling with the challenges of preserving digital information for future generations and making it available for free access.
Effective spectral imaging requires not just collection of quality images, but the ability to manage and exploit large amounts of integrated data and metadata for cultural heritage studies. A medium-format monochrome camera takes a series of high-quality digital images, each illuminated by a specific wavelength of light from low-heat LED light sources. Digitally processing and combining the resulting image set can reveal important features on the objects that are not visible to the eye in natural light. Data management, operation, training, information storage and access are required for the collaborative analysis of the images and image products from the spectral imaging system. Data collected in standard formats can be made available for access and sharing for further analysis. With common standards and techniques, this can include collaboration with other DH studies and data. Integration is also possible with other standard digital images or data collected with other camera systems and scientific instruments, as is being done with mummy masks at UCL.
Speaker's bio: Mike Toth integrates and manages new technologies for digital study, access and preservation of cultural objects, including in the Walters Art Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and British Library. In partnership with DTEK, Phase One and Equipoise Imaging, he is supporting the integration of spectral imaging systems into digital humanities studies and institutions.
Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Universität zu Köln:...UCLDH
Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Universität zu Köln: 'Illuminating the Herculaneum Papyri with New Digital Imaging Techniques.'
Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Universität zu Köln:...UCLDH
Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Universität zu Köln: 'Illuminating the Herculaneum Papyri with New Digital Imaging Techniques.'
Презентация видео-диагностики по методу Ануашвили (Дети)bonitarium
Видео-компьютерная психокоррекция - абсолютно индивидуальный, научный и объективный подход. Это возможность узнать о себе все и восстановить сильные стороны своей жизненной позиции.
Dr Tony Freeth, Honorary Senior Research Associate UCL, Antikythera Mechanism Research Project: 'The Antikythera Mechanism: A Personal Journey of Discovery.'
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From Record-Bound to Boundless: FRBR, Linked Data and New Possibilities for S...NASIG
As resources have become ever more complicated in a digital world, it is evident that cataloging practices and the metadata standards we use to guide these practices are becoming more constrained. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the cataloging of serial publications. For librarians, serial publications have been a constant challenge due to issues such as the multiple version problem, frequent changes in title or issuing body and complex publication histories. For users, serial publications are challenging due to the fact that a boundary has been established in the library profession where serial publications are described by librarians while the articles contained within those publications are handled by indexing and abstracting services. Although web-scale discovery systems have attempted to bridge the gap by providing a single point of discovery, user access is far from seamless. Recent changes within the library community can have a significant impact on serials cataloging and may help improve information retrieval for the end user. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) holds great promise for alleviating some of the problems related to serials cataloging. While FRBR provides a useful mechanism for re-examining many of the problems with serials cataloging, the principles of Linked Data may further transform the way in which resources and the relationships between them are captured and presented to our users. By taking description out of our current record constraints, serials librarians will better be able to express how a particular journal has changed over time and the relationships between multiple versions of the same publication. The Linked Data model also opens up many opportunities for the provision of value-added content to bibliographic descriptions. Shifting description to a Linked Data model may not only help to alleviate many of the issues related to serials cataloging, it can also help users better understand and use bibliographic data effectively.
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Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter .docxbarbaran11
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics
by Richard P. Feynman
This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gaveon December
29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the AmericanPhysical Society at the
CaliforniaInstitute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the
February1960 issue of Caltech's Engineeringand Science, which owns the
copyright. It has been made availableon the web at
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.htmlwith their kind permission.
Information on theFeynman Prizes
Links to pageson Feynman
For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter4 of
Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technicalintroduction
to nanotechnology isNanosystems:molecular machinery, manufacturing,
and computation by K. EricDrexler, Wiley 1992.
I imagine experimental physicists must often look with envy at menlike Kamerlingh
Onnes, who discovered a field like low temperature, whichseems to be bottomless and in
which one can go down and down. Such a manis then a leader and has some temporary
monopoly in a scientific adventure.Percy Bridgman, in designing a way to obtain higher
pressures, opened upanother new field and was able to move into it and to lead us all
along.The development of ever higher vacuum was a continuing development of thesame
kind.
I would like to describe a field, in which little has been done, butin which an enormous
amount can be done in principle. This field is notquite the same as the others in that it
will not tell us much of fundamentalphysics (in the sense of, ``What are the strange
particles?'') but it ismore like solid-state physics in the sense that it might tell us much
ofgreat interest about the strange phenomena that occur in complex
situations.Furthermore, a point that is most important is that it would have an
enormousnumber of technical applications.
What I want to talk about is the problem of manipulating and controllingthings on a small
scale.
As soon as I mention this, people tell me about miniaturization, andhow far it has
progressed today. They tell me about electric motors thatare the size of the nail on your
small finger. And there is a device onthe market, they tell me, by which you can write the
Lord's Prayer on thehead of a pin. But that's nothing; that's the most primitive, halting
stepin the direction I intend to discuss. It is a staggeringly small worldthat is below. In the
year 2000, when they look back at this age, theywill wonder why it was not until the year
1960 that anybody began seriouslyto move in this direction.
Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanicaon the head of
a pin?
Let's see what would be involved. The head of a pin is a sixteenth ofan inch across. If you
magnify it by 25,000 diameters, the area of thehead of the pin is then equal to the area of
all the pages of the EncyclopaediaBrittanica. Therefore, all it is necess.
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The use of linked data within the library community has the potential to significantly impact cataloging and may help improve information discovery and retrieval for the end user. For librarians and users alike, serial publications have been a constant challenge due to their complex publication histories and fluid nature. In this webinar, the presenters will reprise their NASIG 2013 Conference presentation, providing an overview of Linked Data developments within the library and journal publishing communities. By exploring serials in relation to FRBR principles and linked data modeling techniques, the presenters will describe how a search for periodical literature might be improved in a linked data environment. Taking description out of the current record constraints, serials librarians will be able to express the relationships between multiple versions of the same publication, and document how a particular journal has changed over time. The linked data model also opens up many opportunities for the provision of value-added content to bibliographic descriptions.
Презентация видео-диагностики по методу Ануашвили (Дети)bonitarium
Видео-компьютерная психокоррекция - абсолютно индивидуальный, научный и объективный подход. Это возможность узнать о себе все и восстановить сильные стороны своей жизненной позиции.
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From Connected Chronographs to Connected Demographics
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From Record-Bound to Boundless: FRBR, Linked Data and New Possibilities for S...NASIG
As resources have become ever more complicated in a digital world, it is evident that cataloging practices and the metadata standards we use to guide these practices are becoming more constrained. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the cataloging of serial publications. For librarians, serial publications have been a constant challenge due to issues such as the multiple version problem, frequent changes in title or issuing body and complex publication histories. For users, serial publications are challenging due to the fact that a boundary has been established in the library profession where serial publications are described by librarians while the articles contained within those publications are handled by indexing and abstracting services. Although web-scale discovery systems have attempted to bridge the gap by providing a single point of discovery, user access is far from seamless. Recent changes within the library community can have a significant impact on serials cataloging and may help improve information retrieval for the end user. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) holds great promise for alleviating some of the problems related to serials cataloging. While FRBR provides a useful mechanism for re-examining many of the problems with serials cataloging, the principles of Linked Data may further transform the way in which resources and the relationships between them are captured and presented to our users. By taking description out of our current record constraints, serials librarians will better be able to express how a particular journal has changed over time and the relationships between multiple versions of the same publication. The Linked Data model also opens up many opportunities for the provision of value-added content to bibliographic descriptions. Shifting description to a Linked Data model may not only help to alleviate many of the issues related to serials cataloging, it can also help users better understand and use bibliographic data effectively.
Presenters: Marlene van Ballegooie and Juliya Borie
University of Toronto Libraries
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Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom An Invitation to Enter .docxbarbaran11
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics
by Richard P. Feynman
This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gaveon December
29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the AmericanPhysical Society at the
CaliforniaInstitute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the
February1960 issue of Caltech's Engineeringand Science, which owns the
copyright. It has been made availableon the web at
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.htmlwith their kind permission.
Information on theFeynman Prizes
Links to pageson Feynman
For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter4 of
Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technicalintroduction
to nanotechnology isNanosystems:molecular machinery, manufacturing,
and computation by K. EricDrexler, Wiley 1992.
I imagine experimental physicists must often look with envy at menlike Kamerlingh
Onnes, who discovered a field like low temperature, whichseems to be bottomless and in
which one can go down and down. Such a manis then a leader and has some temporary
monopoly in a scientific adventure.Percy Bridgman, in designing a way to obtain higher
pressures, opened upanother new field and was able to move into it and to lead us all
along.The development of ever higher vacuum was a continuing development of thesame
kind.
I would like to describe a field, in which little has been done, butin which an enormous
amount can be done in principle. This field is notquite the same as the others in that it
will not tell us much of fundamentalphysics (in the sense of, ``What are the strange
particles?'') but it ismore like solid-state physics in the sense that it might tell us much
ofgreat interest about the strange phenomena that occur in complex
situations.Furthermore, a point that is most important is that it would have an
enormousnumber of technical applications.
What I want to talk about is the problem of manipulating and controllingthings on a small
scale.
As soon as I mention this, people tell me about miniaturization, andhow far it has
progressed today. They tell me about electric motors thatare the size of the nail on your
small finger. And there is a device onthe market, they tell me, by which you can write the
Lord's Prayer on thehead of a pin. But that's nothing; that's the most primitive, halting
stepin the direction I intend to discuss. It is a staggeringly small worldthat is below. In the
year 2000, when they look back at this age, theywill wonder why it was not until the year
1960 that anybody began seriouslyto move in this direction.
Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanicaon the head of
a pin?
Let's see what would be involved. The head of a pin is a sixteenth ofan inch across. If you
magnify it by 25,000 diameters, the area of thehead of the pin is then equal to the area of
all the pages of the EncyclopaediaBrittanica. Therefore, all it is necess.
NASIG Webinar 2014 "From Record-Bound to Boundless: FRBR, Linked Data and New...Juliya Borie
The use of linked data within the library community has the potential to significantly impact cataloging and may help improve information discovery and retrieval for the end user. For librarians and users alike, serial publications have been a constant challenge due to their complex publication histories and fluid nature. In this webinar, the presenters will reprise their NASIG 2013 Conference presentation, providing an overview of Linked Data developments within the library and journal publishing communities. By exploring serials in relation to FRBR principles and linked data modeling techniques, the presenters will describe how a search for periodical literature might be improved in a linked data environment. Taking description out of the current record constraints, serials librarians will be able to express the relationships between multiple versions of the same publication, and document how a particular journal has changed over time. The linked data model also opens up many opportunities for the provision of value-added content to bibliographic descriptions.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
Theres Plenty of Room at the BottomAn Invitation to Enter a New.docxssusera34210
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics
by Richard P. Feynman
This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission.
Information on the Feynman Prizes
Links to pages on Feynman
For an account of the talk and how people reacted to it, see chapter 4 of Nano! by Ed Regis, Little/Brown 1995. An excellent technical introduction to nanotechnology is Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992.
I imagine experimental physicists must often look with envy at men like Kamerlingh Onnes, who discovered a field like low temperature, which seems to be bottomless and in which one can go down and down. Such a man is then a leader and has some temporary monopoly in a scientific adventure. Percy Bridgman, in designing a way to obtain higher pressures, opened up another new field and was able to move into it and to lead us all along. The development of ever higher vacuum was a continuing development of the same kind.
I would like to describe a field, in which little has been done, but in which an enormous amount can be done in principle. This field is not quite the same as the others in that it will not tell us much of fundamental physics (in the sense of, ``What are the strange particles?'') but it is more like solid-state physics in the sense that it might tell us much of great interest about the strange phenomena that occur in complex situations. Furthermore, a point that is most important is that it would have an enormous number of technical applications.
What I want to talk about is the problem of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale.
As soon as I mention this, people tell me about miniaturization, and how far it has progressed today. They tell me about electric motors that are the size of the nail on your small finger. And there is a device on the market, they tell me, by which you can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. But that's nothing; that's the most primitive, halting step in the direction I intend to discuss. It is a staggeringly small world that is below. In the year 2000, when they look back at this age, they will wonder why it was not until the year 1960 that anybody began seriously to move in this direction.
Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica on the head of a pin?
Let's see what would be involved. The head of a pin is a sixteenth of an inch across. If you magnify it by 25,000 diameters, the area of the head of the pin is then equal to the area of all the pages of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Therefore, all it is necessar ...
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Similar to Mike Toth, 'More than the Eye Can See: Digital Humanities Spectral Imaging'. (20)
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
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Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
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The French Revolution Class 9 Study Material pdf free download
Mike Toth, 'More than the Eye Can See: Digital Humanities Spectral Imaging'.
1. from R.B Toth Associates
m.toth@ucl.ac.uk
www.rbtoth.com
More Than the Eye Can See:
Digital Humanities Spectral Imaging
@michabt Eureka! Group
UCLDH Seminar with Michael B. Toth
UCL Honorary Research Associate
14. www.rbtoth.comwww.rbtoth.com
Jan 2001
Proof of
Concept
2003 20082004 2005 2006
Manuscript Study
Information and Imaging Technology
Archimedes Palimpsest Program
2003 20082004 2005 2006 2007
Oct 1998
Palimpsest
Purchased
Sep 1998
Google Founded
10,000 queries/day
2007
Google indexes 4.28+ billion web pages
250+ million search results/day
20072000
2000
2001
2001
2002
2002
1999
1999
1998
1998
Imaging
Sep 2003
Firefox Released
Oct 2001
XML 2d Ed. Standard
1998
Kodak DC210+
1.0 Megapixel Camera
2003
Kodak DX 6440
4 Mp Camera
2007
Kodak V1003
10 Mp Camera
2001
Kodak DCS 760
6.1 Megapixel Camera
2001
Archimedes Draft
Metadata Standard
2007
Stokes 256 Mp
Imaging System
Apr 2001 – Nov 2006 Phased Optical Imaging and Stitching Aug 2007
Optical Imaging
April 2004
ADITUP
Conference
2000
Study Phase
2003
Archimedes
Forum
2005-2006
XRF Imagining
2006
POC Data
Release
2001
Method
Sciamus Paper
2003
Stomachion
NYTimes Article
2004
Hyperides
2005
Aristotle
Commentary
2008
Data
Release
2007-2008
Transcriptions
Changing Technologies
23. www.rbtoth.com
Prototype LED Illumination System,
November 2006
Camera
Manuscript
Optical Fibers
LEDs
“National Treasure: Book of Secrets”
December 2007
Equipoise Imaging
Illumination System Development
31. www.rbtoth.comwww.rbtoth.com
Metadata
Metadata is structured information that
describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes
it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an
information resource. Metadata is often called
data about data or information about information.
National Information Standards Organization,
2004
32. www.rbtoth.comwww.rbtoth.com
Metadata & Standards Development:
• Define consensus standards and metadata
elements to be used in pilot digitization
o Include required cataloging & metadata
standards, standardized vocabulary,
schemas and crosswalks
Metadata and Standards Review:
• Define, document, review key metadata
elements and pilot project standards with
major stakeholders and partners.
Data Planning
34. www.rbtoth.com
Imaging Metadata
Six Types of Metadata Elements:
1. Identification Information
2. Spatial Data Reference Information
3. Imaging & Spectral Data Reference Information
4. Data Type Information
5. Data Content Information
6. Metadata Reference Information
(including Extensions)
38. Privately-owned manuscript
• All 300 GB Raw & Processed Data Freely Available
• Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access Rights
• All Information & Metadata in Single Digital Data Set
http://digitalgalen.net/
39. www.rbtoth.com
Ongoing Galen Studies
In 166r-171v, the right column corresponds to BL Add
14661 72v (and to the Greek text in Kühn XII 148-150)
[identification made on the basis of the phrase ܢܐܝܬܝܗܘ
ܕܬܪܝܢ ܒܛܟܣܐ ,ܡܝܒܫܝܢ “they are drying in the second degree”,
legible in the gutter region, which belongs in the first of the
Φ passages devoted to lentils; a banal enough phrase,
certainly, but one that I happened to have typed recently
in working on the comparative material for the “lentil”
section of Ḥunayn’s compilation].
Of these two leaves, I considered the first (166r-171v) to
be, for our November work meeting…: the text contained
in the left column corresponds to a part of BL Add 14661
that is missing. I had forgotten that there was a lacuna in
BL Add 14661 between fol. 72v and 73r (Wright 1872, p.
1187 [“… the last (quire) being imperfect, owing to the loss
of two leaves after fol. 72…”]; Merx 1885, p. 301 [“Hier tritt
ein Lücke im Text ein, der Fol. 73a mit χ weiter geht”]).
The left column of this leaf contains the first part of the
Syriac text from that lacuna.
49. www.rbtoth.comwww.rbtoth.com
Scholarly Study
Dear Irene, Grigory, Matthias, and Siam,
Mike Toth and Bill Christens-Barry invited Jimmy and me to the BnF yesterday to observe
their ultraviolet photography [sic] of a “wandering” leaf of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest
that Grigory had tracked down last year.
They sent us the results this morning; one passage is particularly legible (shown here):
it’s the first line of column A of the undertext of the leaf, and it reads, quite clearly:
ܐܠܝܚ ܐܥܪܐܕ ̇ܗܝ ܐܬܝܣܟܘܛܣܐ
“The power/faculty of that elemental earth …"
perhaps (but not certainly) followed in the second line by
ܝܗܘܬܝܐܕ
“which is…”
The first line is specific enough to be useful for a word search.
This particular sequence of words is not found in BL Add 14661, so the BnF leaf probably
does not belong to Books VI-VIII of the Simples.
Given the theoretical nature of the topic, it is plausible that it comes from Books I-V….
52. Fragmentarium is:
• Fragmentarium is a scholarly network for
medieval manuscript fragments
Fragmentarium will provide:
• A basis for digital fragment research
• An open-source web application to
upload, catalogue and assemble
fragments
• The possibility to create an international
inventory of medieval manuscript
fragments
Team:
• Christoph Flüeler (Principal Investigator;
e-codices) Sylviane Messerli (Project
Director)
Veronika Drescher & Martin Wünsche
(PhD students)
• Web application: text & bytes LLC
Sponsors:
• Swiss National Science Foundation;
Stavros Niarchos Foundation; Zeno Karl
Schindler Foundation
A project coordinated by the
Medieval Institute of the University
of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Partners:
– Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,
Munich
– Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
– Bibliothèque nationale de France,
Paris, together with the
BIBLISSIMA team for excellence
– Bodleian Library, together with St.
Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
– Center for History and
Palaeography – National Bank of
Greece Cultural Foundation,
Athens
– Harvard University Library,
Cambridge MA, together with the
Medieval Academy of America
– The Schøyen Collection, Oslo and
London
– Österreichische Nationalbibliothek,
Vienna
– Stanford University Libraries
– Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen
– The British Library, London
– Università degli Studi di Cassino e
del Lazio meridionale
– Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
– Herzog-August-Bibliothek,
WolfenbüttelSt. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod.
Sang. 635, Spine
53. www.rbtoth.com
“It’s likely to be a central text once it’s fully
deciphered,” said Dr. Pormann of the
University of Manchester. “We might
discover things we really can’t dream of yet.”