Abstract:The digitization of primary sources has long emphasized facsimile as the primary goal. We show examples illustrating the shift from facsimile-focused to digitization as data collection, enabling a much broader set of goals: analysis, restoration, narrative construction, and visualization. While facsimile remains an important by-product, digitization as data collection enables new possibilities in digital restoration, context-preserving language translation, detection of change over time, and the construction o… Show more
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