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

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.

01-read me.txt

02-Spectral data (.txt files)

03-Photographic documentation spectral data (.eip, .tif & .jpg files)

04-KU Leuven Libraries Open access Spectral data of historical paper, parchment, vellum, leather, inks and pigments_version1.pdf [documentation report]

05-Visualisation and brief comparison spectral data - Don Williams_4-2021.mp4

06-Visualisation and brief comparison spectral data - Don Williams_4-2021_lower quality.mp4