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AHRC - ICT Methods Network:
Digital Image Restoration - Workshop 29 June 2006 - Places Available.
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/workshops.html

A number of places are still available for the DIAMM Digital Restoration
Workshop, which will take place at Oxford University on 29 June 2006. There
is no fee for the course and refreshments and lunch will be provided. Early
registration is highly recommended as places are limited.

The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) has pioneered the use of
mainstream commercial software to recover damaged and obscured readings from
manuscript sources which have been captured by high-resolution digital
imaging. As the facilities required to create high quality digital images
become more widely available in libraries and other repositories, increasing
numbers of scholars are looking to this medium to reveal information that
has either been obscured by conventional document restoration processes, or
has proved beyond the capacity of conventional restoration to reveal. The
main advantage of digital restoration is the lack of invasive procedure on
the original document, and the provision of an image that may be more
revealing than the original.

DIAMM has been demonstrating the results of digital restoration at
conferences and seminars for some years, and this workshop is in response to
demand from scholars internationally to learn the techniques and underlying
methods of this process. Full training materials and information about
creating a suitable "master" image will be provided. Participants will be
given the opportunity to experience and test the tools necessary for
enhancement in a tutorial atmosphere, in order to build an understanding of
the underlying techniques of digital restoration and to enable them to
undertake the work themselves and explore the potential of the software
beyond the bounds of the seminar.

Participants will benefit from the course if they are able to obtain a
version of Photoshop beforehand, to familiarize themselves with the tools
and menus.

Please contact [log in to unmask] if you would like to register for the
workshop. Please include full contact details and a brief description of the
relevance of this event to your work.

Neil Grindley
Senior Project Officer
AHRC ICT Methods Network
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House
7 Arundel Street
London
WC2R 3DX
telephone: 0207 848 2803
Fax: 0207 848 2980
email: [log in to unmask]


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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
+44 (0)1784 443949
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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