EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration

EDUCE：增强数字化保护和探索

• 批准号: 0535003
• 负责人: William Seales
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0535003&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EDUCE; Enhanced; Digital; Unwrapping; Conservation

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.

该建议是开发一个硬件和软件系统，用于对古代文本的虚拟解开和可视化。总体目的是使用定制的，便携式的，多功能的CT扫描设备捕获数字形式的脆弱的3D文本，例如古代纸莎草和其他材料的卷轴，然后使用image算法实际上“展开”滚动，并渲染一个数字传真在非侵入性过程中揭示并在人工制品上揭示并制作了清晰的铭文和其他标记。初步工作已经证明了概念证明。该项目是跨学科的强度，需要在多个领域中进行专业知识。该项目很复杂，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。 该项目的潜在更广泛的影响很大，并且在大量的学术应用和机构实践中立即有用。所描述的系统的成功实施将使对包含大量信息的脆弱文本和文物的无创，无损检查，使持有人能够与个人和其他机构共享宝贵资产的知识分子。