The Digital Atheneum: New techniques for restoring, searching, and editing humanities collections

IIS-9817483 Seales，William B.肯塔基大学资源基金$499,924-36个月数字体育馆：恢复、搜索和编辑人文收藏的新技术这项工作将从大英图书馆的科顿收藏老化和损坏的部分开发新的数字图书馆，以满足人文学者的需求。该项目的结果将是最先进的技术方法、结合这些新方法的工具，以及一个广泛分布的恢复的、以前无法访问的手稿的数字图书馆。特别是，技术重点将包括以下重要的研究领域：o继续开发损坏和老化手稿的新照明技术，使用新的照明方法，使之能够恢复原本看不见的标记和信息；o创建语义对象模型和框架，用于创建数字收藏，支持特定于领域或数据的恢复和基于内容的搜索/访问；o纳入新的处理技术，用于对遭受火灾、水和老化损坏的手稿进行数字恢复、增强和搜索/注释该项目得到了IBM通过共享大学研究(SUR)的大力支持。同样，与大英图书馆的伙伴关系提供了获取高质量藏品、手稿和馆藏以及数字化设施的便利条件。

IIS-9817483Seales, William B.University of Kentucky Res Fdn$499,924 - 36 monthsThe Digital Atheneum: New techniques for restoring, searching, and editing humanities collectionsThis work will develop new digital libraries from aging and damagedportions of the Cottonian Collection at the British Library, tailoredto the requirements of scholars in the humanities.The result of this project will be state-of-the-art technical approaches,tools that incorporate those new approaches, and a widely distributed digitallibrary of restored, previously inaccessible manuscripts.In particular, the technical focus will encompass the following importantresearch areas: o Continued development of new illumination techniques for damaged and aging manuscripts using novel lighting methods to make it possible to recover markings and information that would otherwise be invisible o Creation of a semantic object model and framework for creating digital collections that will support domain or data-specific restoration and content-based search/access o Incorporation of novel processing techniques for digitally restoring, enhancing, and searching/annotating manuscripts that have suffered damage from fire, water, and agingThe project has strong support from IBM through the Shared UniversityResearch (SUR). Likewise, partnership with the British Library providespriviledged access to high-quality collections, manuscript and curatorexpertise, and digitization facilities.