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Developing Advanced Technologies for the Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant Project
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In Fall 2006, the CHI team and University of Southern California (USC) researchers earned special recognition — a prestigious National Leadership Grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Only 37 of the 183 institutions submitting applications obtained grants. CHI and USC are part of a distinguished group of IMLS grant winners, including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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$600,000
CHI and USC received $600,000 for their 3 year project, “Developing Advanced Technologies for the Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects.” This project builds on the success CHI has already achieved by working with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (HP Labs) to adapt Reflection Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology for archaeological research, documentation, and archiving. |
For the IMLS project, USC, CHI and HP Labs will extend current RTI technology to provide three-dimensional (3D), multiple-view RTIs of cultural objects. Scholars, the public, and others interested in new artifact imaging techniques will be able to view and download these advanced RTIs via the Internet. CHI, USC and HP Labs are providing additional resources for the project totaling more than $691,000.
The project includes a USC team consisting of the Archaeological Research Collection (an active USC teaching museum), the West Semitic Research Project and the InscriptiFact internet image database. Dr. Bruce Zuckerman is the principal investigator for this project and leads the West Semitic Research Project,
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A USC School of Religion project dedicated for the last 20 years to high-end photography of ancient inscriptions and other material culture. |
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A database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. |
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