Digital Heritage

by Lindsay MacDonald (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136410116
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/11/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
File size:	109 MB
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About the Author

Lindsay MacDonald

Table of Contents

Part 1 User Requirements; Chapter 1 Digitising Documents for Public Access, Neil Smith; Chapter 2 Digitising Rare Books and Manuscripts, Czeslaw Jan Grycz; Chapter 3 Digitisation Programmes in the V&A, James Stevenson; Chapter 4 Digital Access to a Photographic Collection, Andrea de Polo, Sam Minelli; Chapter 5 Digitisation in the Commercial Art World, Anthony Hamber; Chapter 6 User Requirements for Metric Survey, Paul Bryan; Part 2 Technology; Chapter 7 Principles and Evolution of Digital Cameras, Peter Rudolf; Chapter 8 High Resolution Imaging in the Near Infrared, Duilio Bertani, Luca Consolandi; Chapter 9 Image Resizing – the Limits of Image Processing, Alfredo Giani; Chapter 10 Image Databases and Access, Mike Stapleton; Chapter 11 Colour Management in Heritage Photography, Phil Green; Chapter 12 Image Compression and JPEG2000, Thomas Zellmann; Chapter 13 Assessing Image Quality, Lindsay MacDonald, Ralph Jacobson; Part 3 Applications; Chapter 14 Imaging Historical Architectural Sites for Conservation, Nick Beckett, Barbara Schick, Keith Findlater; Chapter 15 Imaging of Stained Glass Windows, Lindsay MacDonald, Keith Findlater, Richard Tao Song, Alfredo Giani, Shanmugalingam Suganthan; Chapter 16 Making Online Monuments more Accessible through Interface Design, Cristiano Bianchi; Chapter 17 Visualisation of Panoramic Images over the Internet, Francesco Aru, Pietro Zanuttigh, Guido M. Cortelazzo; Chapter 18 3D Virtual Restoration of Polychrome Sculpture, Angela Geary; Chapter 19 Digital Imaging for Easel Paintings, David Saunders, John Cupitt, Joseph Padfield; Chapter 20 Research Policy and Directions, Tom Evans;