Supporting Research In the fall of 2018, I was part of a small research team, comprised of Classics Professor Nicholas Gresens, undergrads Elise Lia, ’20, and Shaim Mahir, ’21, that traveled to the province of L’Aquila in Southern Italy. The focus of the trip was to image ancient Roman writing tablets that had been found …
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Identifying What You See
One of the most interesting parts of working in digitization at a large institution is the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of materials from different eras. My day to day work typically sees me digitizing a fair amount of manuscripts and correspondence with some photographs and 3D objects interspersed. Recently, a collection of …
Lisa Wright, Digitization Specialist
Lisa is the Digitization Specialist for the Digital Scholarship Lab. She holds an MFA in Visual Studies with a concentration in historic process photography from The Visual Studies Workshop, as well as a certificate in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from the George Eastman Museum. Areas of specialization: Reflectance Transformation Imaging, digitization best practices, photographic identification and preservation methods Contact: …
Medieval and Early Modern Seals Under a New Light
The Digitization Lab discusses the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to reveal details in seals from medieval and early modern manuscripts housed in RBSCP.
Today On the Print Bed in the DSL
Today on our Cube printer, we are making a 3D print of the statue of Minerva located in the Great Hall of Rush Rhees Library. The print was generated from a 3D scan made by a Faro laser scanner. This past year we have been experimenting with different methods of capturing spatial data to use …