Imaging Ancient Roman Tablets

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 …

Digitizing on a Big Scale: the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt

At the occasion of the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation collaborated with the Digital Scholarship Lab to create a new digital reproduction of the University of Rochester’s NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt. The 12’x12′ panel includes notes, tributes, and signatures collected in April 1994, when the national AIDS quilt …