| PW-50427-09 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Brigham Young University | Multispectral Imaging Project | 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2012 | $349,155.00 | Roger | Thomas | Macfarlane | | | | Brigham Young University | Provo | UT | 84602 | USA | 2009 | Classics | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 349155 | 0 | 254828.13 | 0 | Multi-spectral imaging of 400 illegible, or legibly problematic papyri from collections at the University of Michigan; University of California, Berkeley; and Columbia University. The resulting images would be disseminated via the Web-based Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS).
The Ancient Textual Imaging Group at Brigham Young University has pioneered developments into enhancing texts of deteriorated and damaged papyri using multi-spectral imaging. This process has rendered legible many stained, discolored, or faded portions of ancient documents. In effect, the process has restored the documents to a state of legibility that they have not possessed since antiquity. The BYU Multi-spectral Imaging Project is a two-year venture proposed by the Ancient Textual Imaging Group to capture, process, and provide public access via the Advanced Papyrological Information System to high-quality multi-spectral images of hundreds of legibly problematic papyrus documents from the most important papyrus collections in the country. |