Fwd: [agade] FELLOWSHIPS: Training in Reflectance Transformation Imaging

[Kathryn Piquette]

Dear all,

FYI, the RTI news below. Great to see RTI gaining momentum. Here in Berlin we have also secured funding to bring CHI over for 2 trainings involving Excellence Cluster TOPOI and the Staatlich Museen. The Staatlich Museen have also now secured funding for equipment purchase which we are in the process of acquiring. So hopefully more folks soon to be joining the RTI community!

All best - Kathryn

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jack Sasson <jack.m...@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 22 July 2012 19:15
Subject: [agade] FELLOWSHIPS: Training in Reflectance Transformation Imaging
To: "The Agade mailing list." <ag...@listserv.unc.edu>


From Bruce Zuckerman <bzuc...@college.usc.edu>:
===========================================

ANNOUNCING

A NEW TRAINING Program for Scholars, conservators and researchers in the
Use of Reflectance
Transformation imaging (RTI)
 for Documenting ancient texts and artifacts
 including the Loan of Imaging Equipment


The University of Southern California’s West Semitic Research Project
(www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp) has received grants from the Institute for
Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
to establish a Training Program in advanced imaging technologies for
the documentation of ancient texts and artifacts with an initial
emphasis on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI).  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 consortial network 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.

For more information, see
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/Training_Program.pdf.

--- You are currently subscribed to agade as: kathryn...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-31842027-33454927.af91...@listserv.unc.edu
--- To (re-)subscribe please send a blank email to list...@unc.edu, and write (as subject and in first
line): subscribe agade

--
Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette
COFUND Research Fellow

Freie Universität Berlin
Topoi Building Dahlem
Hittorfstraße 18, Raum K024
D-14195 Berlin, Germany

Tel: +49 30 838-57450
Email: kathryn....@fu-berlin.de
Web: http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/promovieren/drs/drs_fellowships/DRS_Fellows/Kathryn_Piquette/index.html