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Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging

Year: 2012

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper describes the methodology and presents preliminary results of a project using multispectral imaging to document the deterioration of parchment. A series of treatments has been applied to degrade samples from a deaccessioned manuscript using both physical and chemical agents. Each sample is photographed before and after the treatment by a multispectral imaging system to record the effect of the treatments on both the writing and the parchment. Here we present the initial imaging of the samples, and we show how some of the agents affect the writing and parchment.

Source: Electronic workshops in computing

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2012.52

Authors: Alejandro Giacometti, Alberto Campagnolo, Lindsay MacDonald, Simon Mahony, Melissa Terras, Stuart Robson, Tim Weyrich, Adam Gibson

Institutions: Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, University of the Arts London

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W61658226

FWCI: 27.23

Cites: 14

Cited by: 13

Related to: 10