Fwd: USC's WSRP Imaging Training Program

[Dominik Wujastyk]

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From: Marilyn Lundberg <mlundber at usc.edu>
Date: 1 November 2012 19:37
Subject: USC's WSRP Imaging Training Program
To: wujastyk at gmail.com


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Would you be able to put this announcement on your list? If you have any
questions, please let me know.

Regards,
Marilyn Lundberg


USC'S TRAINING Program for scholars, conservators, library and museum
professionals, archivists and researchers in the use of Reflectance
Transformation imaging (RTI) for documenting ancient texts and artifacts,
including the loan of imaging equipment

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (ROUND TWO)

The University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project (
www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp) has just approved the first applicants for
training in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). The projects that
have been accepted include RTI documentation of:

o** **Egyptian graffiti incised on stone blocks
o**      **Wax and lead tablets and clay seals ranging from the first
century BCE to the eighth century CE
o**        **Egyptian quartzite statues
o**     **Korean artifacts

The Training Program is funded by grants from the Institute for Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IMLS and the Mellon Foundation have also
funded the purchase of imaging equipment to support the Training Program.

The objective of this project is to develop an infrastructure for training
scholars in the use of RTI technology and subsequently to lend the
necessary imaging equipment to participants in the training program so they
can do an initial RTI documentation project either in field environments
(archaeological sites, etc.) or in libraries, museums and/or other similar
venues, worldwide. This initial undertaking should be understood to be a
pilot project that can develop into an ongoing, broader documentary effort
and preferably may also serve as the catalyst for establishing a scholarly
network consortium for image documentation of a given corpus (or corpora)
of ancient texts and/or artifacts.  All equipment to be lent out is both
rugged and compact and is thus ideal for doing sophisticated imaging in
remote locations. Twenty-four awards over three years (approximately eight
per year) for traineeships will be provided based on the merit and
intrinsic importance of a proposed pilot imaging project as well as the
appropriateness of the subject matter for RTI imaging.

The next deadline for applying to the training program is January 15, 2013,
followed by another deadline of April 15, 2013.

For more information, see
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/Training_Program.pdf,
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/projects/imls.shtml, or contact Marilyn
Lundberg (mlundber at usc.edu) or Bruce Zuckerman (bzuckerm at usc.edu).

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Marilyn J. Lundberg, Ph.D.
Associate Director, West Semitic Research
Associate Editor, MAARAV
12 Empty Saddle Road
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
Tel: 310-541-4573; Fax: 310-541-2361
Web Sites: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp
http://www.inscriptifact.com
http://www.maarav.com


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