ITR: Digital Hammurabi - High Resolution 3D Imaging of Cuneiform Tablets

本提案是关于发展三维扫描方法，应用于楔形文字片剂的成像。这一过程通过“加深”几个世纪以来磨损严重的石碑上的痕迹，从而使图像更加清晰，从而使石碑更具可读性。评审小组给予该提案“极具竞争力”的评级，认为该提案在资讯科技和人文社会科学方面有创新的工作，表现出色。对于IT来说，影响是便携式、高分辨率表面扫描仪和多分辨率算法的发展。对于人文学科来说，这个项目代表了一项重要的工作，它有可能广泛地应用于其他领域，为更多的学者开辟了新的研究领域。所开发的技术和技巧可以引进到古代文化和语言研究的其他领域。

This proposal is concerned with developing of 3-D scanning methods to be applied to the imaging of cuneiform tablets. This process can make the tablets more readable by "deepening" the marks in tablets badly worn over centuries, thus sharpening the images. The panel gave this proposal a Highly Competitive rating, noting that it was an excellent proposal with innovative work in information technology and the humanities and social sciences. For IT, the impact is the development of a portable, very high resolution surface scanner and the multi-resolution algorithms. For the humanities, the project represents significant work with a potentially very wide application to other other objects with the result of opening up new fields of study to a larger group of scholars. The technology and techniques developed can be imported to other areas of study of ancient cultures and languages.