Imaging the Hours: Creating a Digital Resource of Flemish Manuscripts
FAIN: PW-51019-12
Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, MD 21201-5118)
William Noel (Project Director: July 2011 to March 2013)
Robert Mintz (Project Director: March 2013 to April 2016)
Enhanced cataloging, digitization, and creation of online access to 112 Flemish manuscripts (45,000 pages of text and over 3,000 pages of illumination) from northeastern France and Belgium from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
"Imaging the Hours," a three year project to preserve and make available cataloged digital surrogates of 112 manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum's world-famous collection. Approximately 45,000 pages of ancient text and over 3,000 pages of superb medieval illuminated images from Northeastern France and Belgium will be digitally captured and documented.
Media Coverage
Md. Museum wins grant to digitize medieval books (Media Coverage)
Author(s):
Publication: The Daily Times Delmarva.com from USA Today
Date: 3/27/2012
Abstract: Briefly describes the nature and scope of the NEH award to the Walters for digitizing Flemish books of hours. Provides a brief background of past Walters'awards for digitizing manuscripts.
URL: http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012120327035
Md. Museum Wins Grant To Digitize Medieval Books (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Associated Press
Publication: CBS Baltimore News
Date: 3/27/2012
Abstract: Briefly describes the nature and scope of the NEH award for digitizing Flemish books of hours. Provides a brief background of past Walters' awards for digitizing manuscripts.
URL: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/03/27/md-museum-wins-grant-to-digitize-medieval-books/
Walters Art Museum nabs $265,000 grant to digitize medieval manuscripts (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Joanna Sullivan
Publication: Baltimore Business Journal
Date: 3/27/2012
Abstract: Briefly describes the nature and scope of the NEH award for digitizing Flemish books of hours. Provides a brief background of past Walters' awards for digitizing manuscripts.
URL: http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2012/03/27/walters-art-museum-nabs-265000.html
Walters Art Museum receives $265,000 grant to help digitize manuscripts (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Chris Kaltenbach
Publication: The Baltimore Sun
Date: 3/27/2012
Abstract: Describes the NEH award to the Walters to digitize the Flemish manuscripts. Provides details and images on the manuscripts and past awards.
URL: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-walters-grant-20120327,0,7564347.story
Walters Receives $265,000 Grant (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Andrew Zaleski
Publication: The Urbanite- Online
Date: 3/27/2012
Abstract: Briefly describes the NEH award to the Walters to digitize the Flemish manuscripts. Provides details and images on the manuscripts and past manuscript related awards.
URL: http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/StaffReport/archives/2012/03/27/walters-receives-265000-grant
Rare books and manuscripts are now easier to view. (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lauren Hertzler
Publication: Penn Current
Date: 6/11/2015
Abstract: This article mentions the uniqueness of the Digital Walters and how it inspired a similar project at the University of Pennsylvania. Though it is not a grant product, the Digital Walters is an important component of the Walters' current NEH-funded project to digitize Flemish manuscripts.
URL: http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2015-06-11/features/rare-books-and-manuscripts-are-now-easier-view
Making Medieval Modern (Media Coverage)
Publication: NEH website
Date: 7/1/2013
Abstract: The Walters digitization project was chosen as the pilot subject for a video program begun by the NEH in the spring of 2013 to highlight important projects it has funded, and the resulting video was selected to be on the front page of the NEH website. A local television station filmed a segment about manuscript digitization at the Walters, which aired on CTV News in July 2013
URL: http://www.neh.gov/films/making-medieval-modern
Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access (Review)
Author(s): Kristin Kelly
Publication: A Study of Eleven Museums by Mellon Foundation
Date: 4/25/2013
Abstract: In December 2009, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation organized a meeting of thirteen museum
directors to discuss open access to images of works of art in their collections. This meeting was
seen as a catalyst for further high-level discussion on the topic; it also prompted several of the
museums present to investigate issues surrounding open access. This report describes the current approach of eleven art museums in the US and the UK to the
use of images of works of art in their collections, where the underlying works are in the public
domain. Each approach is slightly different. By presenting the thought processes and methods of
these institutions, this report aims to inform the decision making of other museums that are
considering open access to images in their collections.
The Walters Art Museum is among these profiled.
URL: http://msc.mellon.org/msc-files/Open%20Access%20Report%2004%2025%2013-Final.pdf
Walters Art Museum Digitization Project (Media Coverage)
Publication: NEH website
Date: 12/21/2015
Abstract: The excavation of an ancient shipwreck. The digital restoration of Buddhist cave temples. The transformation of a slave memoir into film. Here are NEH-funded projects from then to now that have shaped what we think and what we know about ourselves and our culture.
URL: http://50.neh.gov/projects/walters-art-museum-digitization-project