EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration

这一建议是为了开发一个用于古代文本的虚拟解包和可视化的硬件和软件系统。总体目的是使用定制的便携式多功能CT扫描设备以数字形式捕获脆弱的3D文本，如古代纸莎草纸和其他材料的卷轴，然后使用图像算法虚拟地展开卷轴，呈现数字传真，在文物上暴露并做出清晰的铭文和其他标记，所有这些都是在非侵入性过程中进行的。初步工作已经证明了概念的正确性。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重大的，并立即在一大套学术应用和机构实践中有用。上述系统的成功实施将使人们能够对包含大量信息的脆弱文本和文物进行非侵入性、非破坏性的检查，使持有者能够与个人和其他机构分享宝贵资产的知识内容。

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.