NSF Org:	IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE
Initial Amendment Date:	March 24, 1999
Latest Amendment Date:	December 3, 2003
Award Number:	9817483
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Stephen Griffin IIS  Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE  Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date:	March 15, 1999
End Date:	January 31, 2004 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$499,924.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$534,337.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 1999 = $499,924.00 FY 2001 = $9,456.00 FY 2002 = $24,957.00
History of Investigator:	William Seales (Principal Investigator) seales@uky.edu James Griffioen (Co-Principal Investigator) Kevin Kiernan (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Kentucky Research Foundation 500 S LIMESTONE LEXINGTON KY  US  40526-0001 (859)257-9420
Sponsor Congressional District:	06
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Kentucky 500 S LIMESTONE LEXINGTON KY  US  40526-0001
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	06
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	H1HYA8Z1NTM5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES, EPSCoR Co-Funding
Primary Program Source:	app-0101  app-0102  app-0199  app-0499
Program Reference Code(s):	1086, 9139, 9150, 9216, HPCC
Program Element Code(s):	685700, 915000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

IIS-9817483
Seales, William B.
University of Kentucky Res Fdn
$499,924 - 36 months

The Digital Atheneum: New techniques for restoring, searching, and editing humanities collections

This work will develop new digital libraries from aging and damaged
portions of the Cottonian Collection at the British Library, tailored
to the requirements of scholars in the humanities.
The result of this project will be state-of-the-art technical approaches,
tools that incorporate those new approaches, and a widely distributed digital
library of restored, previously inaccessible manuscripts.
In particular, the technical focus will encompass the following important
research areas:
o Continued development of new illumination techniques for damaged and
aging manuscripts using novel lighting methods to make it possible to
recover markings and information that would otherwise be invisible
o Creation of a semantic object model and framework for creating digital
collections that will support domain or data-specific restoration and
content-based search/access
o Incorporation of novel processing techniques for digitally restoring,
enhancing, and searching/annotating manuscripts that have suffered damage
from fire, water, and aging
The project has strong support from IBM through the Shared University
Research (SUR). Likewise, partnership with the British Library provides
priviledged access to high-quality collections, manuscript and curator
expertise, and digitization facilities.

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