EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration

EDUCE：增强数字化保护和探索

• 批准号: 0535003
• 负责人: William Seales
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0535003&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EDUCE; Enhanced; Digital; Unwrapping; Conservation

This proposal is to develop a hardware and software system for the virtual unwrapping and visualization of ancient texts. The overall purpose is to capture in digital form fragile 3D texts, such as ancient papyrus and scrolls of other materials using a custom built, portable, multi-power CT scanning device and then to virtually "unroll" the scroll using image algorithms, rendering a digital facsimile that exposes and makes legible inscriptions and other markings on the artifact, all in a non-invasive process. Preliminary work has demonstrated proof of concept. The project is intensely interdisciplinary, requiring expertise in multiple domains. The project is complex and presents significant intellectual and technical challenges to information technology research, materials research, engineering and the social sciences. The potential broader impacts of the project are significant and immediately useful across a large set of scholarly applications and institutional practices. Successful implementation of the described system will enable noninvasive, nondestructive examination of fragile texts and artifacts which contain a wealth of information, allowing holders to share the intellectual content of precious assets with individuals and other institutions.

本研究旨在开发一套古籍虚拟解包与可视化的软硬件系统。总体目的是使用定制的便携式多功率CT扫描设备以数字形式捕获脆弱的3D文本，例如古代纸莎草和其他材料的卷轴，然后使用图像算法虚拟地“展开”卷轴，呈现数字传真，暴露并使人工制品上的铭文和其他标记清晰可辨，所有这些都在非侵入性过程中。初步工作证明了概念。该项目是高度跨学科的，需要多个领域的专业知识。该项目非常复杂，对信息技术研究、材料研究、工程和社会科学提出了重大的智力和技术挑战。 该项目潜在的更广泛的影响是显着的，并立即在大量的学术应用和机构实践有用。成功实施所述系统将能够对包含丰富信息的脆弱文本和文物进行非侵入性、非破坏性检查，使持有人能够与个人和其他机构分享珍贵资产的知识内容。