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Michael Toth

"Archimedes and the Bit Rot Problem" 1 Reply

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The Next Age of Discovery

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Palimpsest Rotation 4 Replies

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Discussion and study of the digital version of the Archimedes Palimpsest and digital imaging of this and other cultural objects

 

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Henry Walters' Library Online

As the Page Turns

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

Posted by Henry Walters' Library Online on May 1, 2009 at 12:14pm — 2 Comments

Henry Walters' Library Online

The Life of a Digitizer

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

Posted by Henry Walters' Library Online on March 26, 2009 at 2:59pm — 2 Comments

Will Noel

Walters Art Museum upgrades collections website

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

Posted by Will Noel on March 26, 2009 at 12:04pm

Michael Toth

Yes We Scan!

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.orgContinue

Posted by Michael Toth on March 23, 2009 at 10:00pm

Henry Walters' Library Online

New Camera!

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

Posted by Henry Walters' Library Online on March 18, 2009 at 2:30pm

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Sonja Schwoll, Amy Mannarino, Cláudio Trarbach and 15 more joined EUREKA! on Wednesday
The best method of preservation is the one that made this project possible -- a physical copy. Print up reproductions of the palimpsest. Even a limited distribution of copies around the world would be an excellent hedge against any future digital ...
Michael Toth added a discussionMay 7
Note Alexandra Alter's article in the 8 May Wall Street Journal: The Next Age of Discovery She notes: "While conservationists are quick to stress that pixels and bytes can never replace priceless physical artifacts, many see digitization as a vit...
Also, thanks for your attention to my query. I am grateful for your suggestion! I find it kind of amusing, though, that the 5th ranked Google search for Natalie Tchernetska is THIS page ... Michael Toth said:Will Noel said:Not that I know of, th...
Thanks so much for your reply, and apologies for the much belated response. I will peruse the dissertation at my earliest convenience. I can order a copy from my University. I appreciate your input! Will Noel said:Not that I know of, though in ge...
Henry Walters' Library Online added 2 blog postsMay 1
Michael Toth added an eventApril 26
Archimedes Palimpsest Talk at Brookhaven National Lab at Brookhaven National Lab, Berkner Hall
May 20, 2009 from 4pm to 6pm
Uwe Bergmann, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will give a talk titled “Archimedes’ Oldest Writings Under X-ray Vision,” at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, May 20, at 4 p...
Michael Toth updated an eventApril 12
April 23, 2009 from 9am to 7pm
Talks by Alex Lee and Mike Toth at the Imaging and Imaging Analyses Workshop.
Of course not! We have Bollywood! And audiobooks. But seriously, there is always some new wrinkle to work out, whether with equipment or metadata or workflow. And each new manuscript is like a puzzle to solve. What does the book need to make it h...
Roger L. Easton, Jr added an eventMarch 28
Archimedes Palimpsest Talk in Rochester, NY at Rochester Institute of Technology
April 14, 2009 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Optical Society of America, Rochester Section
It sounds cool. But isn't it a bit boring just taking image after image?
Will Noel added a blog postMarch 26
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...

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