Digitally reconstructing the Great Parchment Book: 3D recovery of fire-damaged historical documents.
The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 887 - 918 |
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Dec2017
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