By way of the Digital Medievalist listserv, please forward at will!

I saw Will Noel of the Walters Art Museum give a talk last week on the
Archimedes Palimpsest project. It's been an amazing collaboration
involving tons of people (conservators, IT specialists, computer
scientists, scholars, students...) and as you'll see below, all the
data is released under Creative Commons license so you're free to take
it and do what you will!

Christopher Blackwell, Michael B. Toth and Doug Emery will be a the
TEI Member's Meeting in London next week to present two separate
papers on the TEI encoding of the Archimedes Palimpsest
(http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/cocoon/tei2008/programme/index.html).

Youtube has lots of clips related to the project (I don't see one of
Will's lecture, but if you come across it you should watch, he did a
great job of making the enterprise intelligible to a non-technical
audience):

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=archimedes+palimpsest

Good stuff!

Dot

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From: Lynn Ransom <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Subject: [dm-l] FW: The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released
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Dear colleagues,

I post the below announcement on behalf of Will Noel.



Best,

Lynn Ransom



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Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes

Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to

conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work,

involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people

working around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its

data. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the ancient world.

It  is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many wavebands of

light with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts that are

spatially mapped to those images.  It has pushed boundaries for the imaging

of documents, and relied almost exclusively on current international

standards.  We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital resource

for the decades to come.  We also hope it will be helpful as an example for

others who are conducting similar work. It published under a Creative

Commons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the potential

for widespread use.  A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts

is available on Googlebooks as ³The Archimedes Palimpsest².  It is hoped

that this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put.



For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit:

www.archimedespalimpsest.org <http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org>



For the dataset, please visit:

www.archimedespalimpsest.net <http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net>



We have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Any

member can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a member,

please email:



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I would be grateful if you would circulate this to your friends and

colleagues.



Thank you very much

Will Noel

The Walters Art Museum

October 29th, 2008.





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