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KU Leuven Libraries Open access Spectral data of historical paper, parchment/vellum, leather, inks and pigments (Version 1.0)

It is the goal of this project, A. to produce a sufficient number of different spectral measurements on a wide variety of historical paper, parchment/vellum, leather, inks, and pigments media, to fuel the above-sketched procedure. To accomplish this, objects from KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections have been used. In addition, a number of contemporary pieces of parchment and vellum were also selected for the exercise. B. to document extensively which materials have been included in the exercise, i.e. media type, date of media, condition of media, and exact regions of interest (ROI) with specific materials on the media. C. to use the results to develop a color calibration target for the digitisation with still images of library and archive documents (the same procedure can be used to create specific targets for faithful reproduction on other fields such as archaeology pottery studies). D. to publish the acquired spectral data and produced documentation as open data. For a visualisation and brief comparison of the spectral data, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpD_xtnJdx4
Publication year:2021
Accessibility:open
Publisher:Zenodo
License:CC0-1.0
Format:txt
Keywords: Digitization, Quality Assurance, dataset, documentary heritage, spectroscopy