Papyrological investigations: transferring perception and interpretation into the digital world.
Deciphering ancient and damaged documents is a complex investigative task that papyrologists routinely undertake to extract meaning from the script. Perception and interpretation play an essential role. In this article, we present methods for transferring to the digital world some of the processes t...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 233 - 248 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2011
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