The Venice ''Archivio di Stato'' - Innovating Digitization with X-Ray Tomography

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We present x-ray imaging results for diverse ironbased- ink antique writings - single-page manuscripts, stacks and scrolls - from the 16th century on. The objective is to elaborate new digitization techniques by x-ray tomography for the ''Venice Time Machine'' (VTM) project in collaboration with the ''Archivio di Stato''. The technique can potentially read unopened - perhaps unopenable - documents and speed up the entire digitization process of large collections. The technique is feasible thanks to the highly absorbing chemical elements in ancient European ink recipes. The corresponding x-ray contrast allows character reading with reasonably short exposure times. The impact is quite relevant: the potential feasibility of ''softer'' and faster digitization of huge collections like the Archivio di Stato - 80 km of documents spanning 10 centuries.
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@inproceedings{
10.1109:DigitalHeritage.2015.7413825
, booktitle = {
International Congress on Digital Heritage - Theme 1 - Digitization And Acquisition
}, editor = {
Gabriele Guidi and Roberto Scopigno and Fabio Remondino
}, title = {{
The Venice ''Archivio di Stato'' - Innovating Digitization with X-Ray Tomography
}}, author = {
Albertin, Fauzia
and
Peccenini, Eva
and
Hwu, Yeukuang
and
Lee, Tsung-Tse
and
Ong, Edwin B. L.
and
Je, Jung Ho
and
Kaplan, Frédéric
and
Margaritondo, Giorgio
}, year = {
2015
}, publisher = {
IEEE
}, ISBN = {
978-1-5090-0048-7
}, DOI = {
10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2015.7413825
} }
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