[CMC] Re: The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released

[Vint Cerf]

there is a book about the story of this manuscript and its "decoding"  
that you might find interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/Archimedes-Codex-Revealing-Antiquitys-Scientist/ 
dp/030681580X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225370476&sr=1-1

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the  
True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist (Hardcover)
by Reviel Netz (Author), William Noel (Author)

vint


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On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Adrian J. Hooke wrote:

> If you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3fZdIw-s-E&eurl=http:// 
> www.archimedespalimpsest.org/video-news1.html and move down to time  
> 36:21 in the video, you will see that Doug Emory http:// 
> www.archimedespalimpsest.org/digitalproduct1.html used the CCSDS  
> Open Archival Information System (OAIS) as a basis for his work on  
> the Archimedes digital archive.
>
> This would be a very good piece of news if one of you guys could  
> take the time to write it up as a draft Press Release for the CCSDS  
> Secretariat to issue. Will anyone take on this task? You can  
> contact Doug Emory <doug.emery at gmail.com> for more information.
>
> ///a
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will [mailto:wnoel at thewalters.org ]
> Sent: Wed 10/29/2008 12:26 PM
> To: tom.elliott at nyu.edu; Richard Leson;  
> charlotte.roueche at kcl.ac.uk; Hooke, Adrian J. (HQ-CG000);  
> vint at google.com
> Subject: The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released
>
> Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the  
> Archimedes
> Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to
> conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work,
> involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of  
> people
> working around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has  
> released its
> data. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the  
> ancient world.
> It  is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many  
> wavebands of
> light with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts  
> that are
> spatially mapped to those images.  It has pushed boundaries for the  
> imaging
> of documents, and relied almost exclusively on current international
> standards.  We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital  
> resource
> for the decades to come.  We also hope it will be helpful as an  
> example for
> others who are conducting similar work. It published under a Creative
> Commons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the  
> potential
> for widespread use.  A complete facsimile of the revealed  
> palimpsested texts
> is available on Googlebooks as ³The Archimedes Palimpsest².  It is  
> hoped
> that this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put.
>
> For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit:
> www.archimedespalimpsest.org < http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org>
>
> For the dataset, please visit:
> www.archimedespalimpsest.net < http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net>
>
> We have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest  
> Project. Any
> member can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a  
> member,
> please email:
>
> wnoel at thewalters.org
>
> I would be grateful if you would circulate this to your friends and
> colleagues.
>
> Thank you very much
> Will Noel
> The Walters Art Museum
> October 29th, 2008.
>
>
>

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