Open up!Disclosing heritage for research and ‘the people’.

A double-win approachNele Gabriels & Bruno Vandermeulen

University Library, KU Leuven

University

University Library

UL Central Services

Digitisation

Imaging Lab

Who we are

What we do

Digitisation

Curators

Research

Education

Analogue materials

ULCS Metadata Services

LIBIS (LIS Provider)

Digital content

Digital Archiving& OPAC

Customers Partnerships

1. Content availabilityClosed books in need of opening up

2. Academic contextAlliance with research: double-win

Assets

Researchers are…1. Our public=> catalogue-based accessibility=> collection-based virtual libraries

KU Leuven, Ms. 201, link from LIMO (discovery and delivery interface) to Mets viewer (left); representation within the virtual collection of lecture notes from the ancient University of Leuven (LECTIO platform; right) (infrastructure development / implementation: LIBIS).

1. Our public

2. Our clients: - Research needs => new tools (post-imaging: iiiF, OCR; during imaging: Reflectance transformation & MS imaging)

- Funding

Researchers are…

KU Leuven, Ms. 201(l) and Ms. C5 (r) in iiiF viewer (Mirador) (development: LIBIS)

KU Leuven, EBIB HIST L-BE MIT 1901

(awaiting OCR)

1. Our public2. Our clients

3. Our infrastructure developers- Hardware - Software

Researchers are…

Prototype of Portable Light Dome, developed for the digitisation of cuneiform texts (development: ESAT, KU Leuven)

Research question (Illuminare): - Studying the working method of medieval scribes, illuminators and print makers

- Looking for new tools for no-touch interactive exploration of the material characteristics of graphic materials in a non-destructive way

Case: Art-technical imaging

Available: Portable Light Dome (Photometric stereo; ESAT, KU Leuven)- Multidirectional lighting- Interactive object display (viewer)- Fine measurements and height profiles of object surfaces (2D+ models)

Case: Art-technical imaging

Answer: Microdome- Shape adjusted to physical requirements of fragile books with tight bindings

- Versatile usage (on table, with tripod or Conservation Copy Stand)

Case: Art-technical imaging

Microdome, RICH project (development: ESAT, KU Leuven)

Result: Microdome- Shape adjusted to physical requirements of fragile books with tight bindings

- Compatible with tripod, Conservation Copy Stand, …

- Combination of multi-directional lighting and digital filters => uncovers ‘invisible’ data

Case: Art-technical imaging

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Height profile comparison

Antiphonary

Application:- Non-destructive art-technical research- Instrument in determining and monitoring conservation treatments

Case: Art-technical imaging

Follow-up project: Multi-Spectral imaging- In-depth digital analysis (UV, BGR, IR)- Objective data gathering re. pigments

and scribal/illuminating techniques- Mapping XRF to spectral data, creating

a chart for pigment reaction to MS light

KU Leuven, BTAB, MS1993, fol. 8r with normal and IR light

Visual spectra FCIR: IR, G, B

KU Leuven, GBIB, MS1 (Anjou Bible),

fol. 1v

KU Leuven, GBIB, MS1 (Anjou Bible), fol. 1v as viewed in the Portable Light Dome viewer (adjusted to enable interactive exploration of multi-spetral data)

SocietyResearch questions Imaging

Team up digitisation and research!Double win

ULCS Digitisation CS Digital Imaging Lab

Faculty of ArtsUniversity Library

Teaming up digitisation and research@KU Leuven

Society

Research questions Imaging

ULCS Digitisation CS Digital Imaging Lab

Open up!Disclosing heritage for research and ‘the people’.

A double-win approachNele Gabriels & Bruno Vandermeulen

University Library, KU Leuven