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Journal Article
Parchment to Pixel: The Walters Islamic Manuscript Digital Project
2010
Overview
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is nearing completion of an initiative to digitize its Islamic manuscripts—a collection comprised of 128 codices and sixty single leaves, dating from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries and containing extraordinary treasures from the world of Islamic art and calligraphy. The project seeks to create full digital surrogates of the entire collection, capturing preservation-quality, high-resolution digital images, providing appropriate metadata, and making the results available at no charge online under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. This article details the processes and procedures behind the ambitious plan and offers critical analysis of the role the project will play in the collective digital management of visual resources.
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ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America)
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