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NEH Workshop: “Communicating Revealed Texts: Best Practices for Born-Digital Editions Using Enhanced Imaging”
Jun 29, 2024
All Day
240 South Madison Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
Over the past two decades, much progress has been made in non-invasive imaging techniques to reveal unreadable text, especially in multispectral (MSI) imaging to bring out erased or faded writing, and in micro-CT, to reveal writing in unopened manuscripts. The project, “Communicating Revealed Texts: Best Practices for Born-Digital Editions Using Enhanced Imaging,” encompasses a group of 14 scholars, curators, and metadata specialists who are currently using enhanced images of ancient manuscripts, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Herculaneum Papyri, the Living Gospel of Mani, and Old Nubian literature. Over the course of the workshop, these scholars will establish best practices for born-digital editions of texts using enhanced images, to show how transcribed text fits into the structure of an imaged manuscript, even if not visible to the naked eye, and to link editorial transcription choices to particular images, enabling others to make an informed, critical reading of these otherwise inaccessible writings.
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