Abstract
Abstract: This article contributes to the discussion of the impact digitization has had on cultural heritage conservation and scholarship by illustrating the range of modes within the general category of digitization. Before selecting a mode, users should reflect on the questions that conservators and scholars ask when examining an artifact. Various modes of digitization may be appropriate for addressing those questions, especially when a manuscript is studied as more than a text container. The advantages and disadvantages compared to firsthand experience are different for each mode. The article addresses, in particular, those modes that attend to range and resolution of reflected, fluoresced, and transmitted color (multispectral imaging) and texture (reflectance transformation imaging [RTI]). It concludes by considering current tools for integrating spectral imaging and RTI.
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