Digitally preserved heritage as a novel approach to the investigation and curation of collections – a multi-domain database of cuneiform tablets

0495866 - ÚTAM 2020 RIV US eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Valach, Jaroslav - Vavřík, Daniel - Štefcová, P. - Polák, L.
Digitally preserved heritage as a novel approach to the investigation and curation of collections – a multi-domain database of cuneiform tablets.
2018 3rd Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHERITAGE) held jointly with 2018 24th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2018). S.l.: IEEE, 2019, č. článku 8810065. IEEE Xplore Digital Library. ISBN 978-1-7281-0292-4.
[Digital Heritage 2018 – International congress and expo /3./. San Francisco (US), 26.10.2018-30.10.2018]
Grant CEP: GA MK(CZ) DG16P02M022
Klíčová slova: cuneiform tablets * virtualization of collections * computed tomography * colorimetry * multi-disciplinary database
Obor OECD: 6.5 Other Humanities and the Arts
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8810065

Virtualization of collections resolves the conflicting requirements between the need to preserve artifacts for future generations and the need to make them accessible to the public as well as researchers. Robust data collection acquired by means of methods from several domains promises to carry out an in-depth investigation on a dataset as opposed to on the real objects themselves. A multi-domain database of data relating to Prague's collection of Hittite cuneiform tablets is developed in the presented research project. The database record contains not only data related to linguistic, paleographic and historical content of the tablet’s textual information, but also stores information on physical properties of the tablet acquired by several nondestructive methods. The paper presents two application of the data acquired: in the first case, we show the investigation of relations between the tablets' colors and their composition and possible implication of grouping within the collection. The second case discusses modalities of use of volumetric data obtained from computed tomography (CT). It can be useful for paleographic research as well as for conservation of artifacts.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0288751