The Venice ''Archivio di Stato'' - Innovating Digitization with X-Ray Tomography
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2015
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IEEE
Abstract
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}
}