Digital Heritage
Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2006
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-0-7506-6183-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the fields of documentation and conservation of cultural heritage assets, there is a constant need for higher quality records and better analytical tools for extracting information about the condition of artefacts. Digital photography and digital image processing provide these capabilities, and recent technological advances in both fields promise new levels of performance for the capture and understanding of colour images. This inter-disciplinary book covers the imaging of decorated surfaces in historical buildings and the digitisation of documents, paintings and objects in museums and galleries, and shows how user requirements can be met by application of powerful digital imaging techniques. Numerous case studies illustrate the methods.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Museum and gallery professionals, conservators, people involved with the care of heritage buildings, managers and documentors of multimedia content projects.
Academics and students in Fine Arts, Museum Studies and Imaging Science
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Approx. 200 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 195 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1597 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-6183-6 (9780750661836)
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Person
Lindsay MacDonald
Content
Digitising documents for public access
Digitising rare books & manuscripts
Digitisation programmes in the V&A
Digital access to a photographic collection
Digitisation in the commercial art world
User requirements for the metric survey
Principles & evolution of digital cameras
High resolution imaging in the near infrared
Image resizing-the limits of image processing
Image databases & access
Colour management in heritage photography
Image compression & JPEG2000
Assessing image quality
Imaging historical architectural sites for conservation
Imaging of stained glass windows
Making online monuments more accessible through interface design
Visualisation of panoramic images over the internet
Three-dimensional virtual restoration of polychrome sculpture
Digital imaging for easel paintings
Research directions
Digitising rare books & manuscripts
Digitisation programmes in the V&A
Digital access to a photographic collection
Digitisation in the commercial art world
User requirements for the metric survey
Principles & evolution of digital cameras
High resolution imaging in the near infrared
Image resizing-the limits of image processing
Image databases & access
Colour management in heritage photography
Image compression & JPEG2000
Assessing image quality
Imaging historical architectural sites for conservation
Imaging of stained glass windows
Making online monuments more accessible through interface design
Visualisation of panoramic images over the internet
Three-dimensional virtual restoration of polychrome sculpture
Digital imaging for easel paintings
Research directions