III: Small: Medieval Unicorn: Toward Enhanced Understanding of Virtual Manuscripts on the Grid in the Twenty-First Century

III：小：中世纪的独角兽：增强对二十一世纪网格上的虚拟手稿的理解

• 批准号: 0910562
• 负责人: Peter Bajcsy
• 金额: $ 12.84万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0910562&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: III; Small; Medieval; Unicorn; Toward

Computation has revolutionized the study of historic documents and is growing rapidly in terms of use and importance to interdisciplinary technology/domain groups and individual scholars and researchers. An interdiscipinary team at the University of Illinois proposes to research and develop cyber tools for exploratory visual studies and quantitative analyses of large volumes of midieval manuscipts. The project will focus on visual imagery embedded in thes manuscripts and where the analysis tools will require large amounts of computational resources and scalable algorithms. The test collection will be digitized copies of Froissart's Chronicles, a set of midieval manuscripts available for reserch and teaching over the Worldwide Universities Network grid and accessible through Virtual Vellum ( developed at the University of Sheffield, UK, and funded by the UKs Arts and Humanities and Engineering and Physical Sciences experimental e-Science program.) The broader scientific impacts resulting from the proposed activities are expected to be in new methodologies, scalable algorithms. The work will also provide new exploratory frameworks that will support questions related to studying broad, difficult and complex topics such as the composition and structure (codicology) of manuscripts as cultural artifacts of the book trade in later medieval Paris and identifying the characteristic styles and iconographic signatures of particular artists. The research will contribute to a body of recent scholarship that seek to define how books were made, how they circulated, and what their cultural value was in the late medieval period.

计算已经彻底改变了历史文献的研究，并且在跨学科技术/领域团体和个人学者和研究人员的使用和重要性方面正在迅速增长。伊利诺伊大学的一个跨学科小组提议研究和开发网络工具，用于探索性的视觉研究和对大量中世纪手稿的定量分析。 该项目将专注于手稿中嵌入的视觉图像，分析工具将需要大量的计算资源和可扩展的算法。 测试集将是Froissart的编年史的数字化副本，这是一套中世纪手稿，可通过全球大学网络网格进行研究和教学，并可通过Virtual Vellum（在英国谢菲尔德大学开发，并由英国艺术与人文科学以及工程和物理科学实验电子科学计划资助）访问。拟议活动产生的更广泛的科学影响预计将体现在新的方法学和可扩展的算法中。 这项工作还将提供新的探索性框架，以支持与研究广泛，困难和复杂的主题有关的问题，例如中世纪后期巴黎图书贸易的手稿的组成和结构（codicology），并确定特定艺术家的特征风格和图像签名。这项研究将有助于最近的学术机构，试图确定书籍是如何制作的，它们是如何传播的，以及它们在中世纪晚期的文化价值是什么。