Montag
08
NOV

13.15 Uhr

Advanced Technologies for Imaging and Preservation of Ancient Palm-leaf Manuscripts

Manuscriptology and Digital Humanities

Prof. PR Mukund, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (USA)

Manuscripts on dried palm leafs were engraved with a sharp metal pen, and filled with vegetable ink for contrast. This was the medium of choice in southern part of India for a very long time. Many ancient texts on various subjects such as philosophy, science and medicine are available ranging in antiquity between three hundred and almost thousand years. As time passes, these manuscripts suffer from fading, fungus, and other factors that make extracting the image difficult. In this talk, we look at using imaging at multiple spectra to extract god images even from damaged palm leaf manuscripts. Preservation of the images for very long term is needed for true archiving, which is nor accomplished with storing digitized images on servers. A new technology using semiconductor manufacturing techniques will also presented that can archive images for many hundreds of years.

About the presenter:
Prof. P.R. Mukund has been on the faculty of Electrical Engineering at RIT for over three decades. His area of specialization is analog and RF integrated circuit design. He has supervised the graduate research of over eighty MS and Ph.D. students. His reach has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation and many leading semiconductor companies by more than two million Dollars.
Dr. Mukund is also a student and teacher of Vedic Science. He started a non-profit trust in India called Tara Prakashana (www.taraprakashana.org) that has been involved in preservation and dissemination of Vedic knowledge since 2006.

Streaming / Video URL

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82660243111?pwd=UkNQQnBuQ05yelJTWGVDMVVTZURUdz09

Homepage Veranstaltung

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/krs/forschung/manuscriptology-and-digital-humanities.html

Veranstalter

Südasien-Institut

Homepage Veranstalter

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/krs/

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Manuscriptology and Digital Humanities':

The methods and techniques of Digital Humanities are increasingly reshaping the manner in which established areas of research are carried out. Use of digital applications and electronic equipments is ushering a new era for the study of manuscripts as well. These rapid advancements necessitate a careful and thorough assessment of the desirability, as also possible concerns, of employing them and call for a judicious integration of the new techniques in the workflow of the study and editing of manuscripts. The main aim of this research group is to review and revise the study of South and Southeast Asian manuscripts in the context of the fast evolving discipline of Digital Humanities.

Montag, 25. Oktober 2021, 09.15 Uhr

New Catalogus Catalogorum: An overview

Prof. Siniruddha Dash, University of Madras (Indien), Grammar, Linguistics, Literature and Manuscriptology

Montag, 08. November 2021, 13.15 Uhr

Advanced Technologies for Imaging and Preservation of Ancient Palm-leaf Manuscripts

Prof. PR Mukund, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (USA)

Montag, 22. November 2021, 09.15 Uhr

Digitizing Manuscripts and Archival Sources: Three Corpora from North India

Prof. Dr. Monika Boehm-Tettelbach, Universität Heidelberg, Süd-Asien Institut, Neusprachliche Südasienstudien

Montag, 13. Dezember 2021, 09.15 Uhr

Manuscript Heritage of Odisha

Dr. Mamata Mishra, Prof. K.V. Sarma Research Foundation, Chennai (India)