The Henry Walters Library Online Project has been moving along. Lately, we've been chewing our way through several meaty projects, including correcting some inconsistancies in our existing metadata and imaging W.658, a beautiful 17th-century book of cartography written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman-Turkish admiral and geographer.

The Piri Reis is a breathtaking manuscript (we'll post pix here soon), full of detailed maps that let the imagination wander to far-off exotic lands. But it is also a looon… Continue

It's a rainy day today in Baltimore--tucked away in our little corner of the Walters Art Museum we can only see the outside from the skylights outside our lab door, and when it rains (or snows) it gives the place the feeling of being cocooned in. This, unfortunately, results in sleepy afternoons! (Don't worry, boss, our productivity is still holding steady.)

The Henry Walters' Library Online project is situated in the Asian art wing of the museum, in a little room that used to be a gallery of T… Continue

The Walters Art Museum has launched a major upgrade to its collections website. It includes nearly 5,000 searchable objects available to the public — whether local or across the globe. This is a dramatic increase over the approximately 800 objects of the previous version. As part of a larger Walters technology initiative, this site allows everyone from a casual virtual visitor to a renowned researcher to browse works of art records from antiquity to the 19th century by categories such as artist,… Continue

We've enjoyed the support of a range of leaders in various fields over the course of both the Archimedes Palimpsest program and our related efforts. Amongst those who have supported us and our data hosting for the world is Carl Malamud. One good deed leads to another, so we'll note that Carl is seeking nomination as the Public Printer of the United States. We can assure you he will certainly shake up the GPO! More information is available at the site yeswescan.org… Continue

It's happy days for the Henry Walters' Library Online. We've just received our new camera upgrade and everything appears to be working as it should. We're now shooting with a 33-megapixel camera (that's 33 million pixels!!!) It's a large-format camera body with a digital back and a 120mm lens, all custom-designed and built by Stokes Imaging in Texas to go with their software.

So far things are going great, which is a big relief. We had tried to install this camera a few months ago and the image… Continue