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.

计算彻底改变了对历史文档的研究，并且在使用和重要性方面迅速增长，对跨学科技术/领域群体以及单个学者和研究人员的重要性。伊利诺伊大学的一个跨学科团队建议研究和开发网络工具，用于探索性视觉研究和大量中世纪手法的定量分析。 该项目将重点放在嵌入到这些手稿中的视觉图像上，分析工具将需要大量的计算资源和可扩展算法。 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方法论，可扩展算法。 这项工作还将提供新的探索性框架，这些探索框架将支持与研究广泛，困难和复杂的主题有关的问题，例如手稿的构图和结构（编辑学），作为书籍贸易的文化贸易，以后来的中世纪巴黎的文化贸易，并确定特定艺术家的特征性风格和肖像学签名。这项研究将有助于近期的奖学金，该奖学金旨在定义书籍的制作方式，它们的流传方式以及其文化价值在中世纪后期的价值。