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Written Artefact Profiling Guide

Written ArtefactProfiling Guide

  • Questions
    • What is my Written Artefact made of?
    • How does my WA change through time?
    • Where does my WA come from?
    • Can the damaged or hidden writing be made visible again?
    • How can different writing initiatives be distinguished?
    • How to date my WA?
    • How to prove my WA is not a forgery?
    • Can material analysis help the preservation and conservation of my WA?
    • How can I study my WA if I only have digital images?
    • How can my paleographical analysis be corroborated?
  • Artefacts
  • Materials
    • Writing Surfaces
    • Writing Substances
  • Methods & Equipment
    • Microscopy
    • Imaging
    • VIS-NIR Spectrophotometry
    • X-Ray Diffraction
    • X-Ray Emission Spectrometry
    • Vibrational Spectroscopies
    • Mass Spectrometry
    • Omics-Analysis
    • Computational Approaches
    • Analysis of Physical Properties
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Written Artefact Profiling Guide
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Welcome to the CSMC Guide to Written Artefact Profiling!

This guide introduces the scientific methods and analytical tools available at the CSMC for the study of materials used to produce  written artefacts (WA), including computational methods applied to their digital reproductions. It intends to foster multidisciplinary collaborations among researchers from the humanities, natural sciences, and computer science.

Artefact profiling adds to the information retrieved from fields such as codicology, paleography, art history, textual criticism, and text editing in order to date, locate, or authenticate written artefacts, amongst other activities. Such an approach can also assist the activities of cataloguing, conservation, and preservation. Additionally, it offers insights into the economic and cultural contexts in which raw materials and goods, such as wood or animal skins, have been produced, used, and traded.

Where to start from here? Read our Guide to the Guide.

Editorial Board

The work on the Artefact Profiling Guide started in 2020, with the active involvement of the Early Career Researchers in ‘Artefact Profiling’ (Research Field A). In 2021 the Editorial Board was established.

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How to Contribute

Contributors

The Artefact Profiling Guide is an ongoing collaborative effort. As of now, more than 30 researchers from the CSMC and other institutions have contributed to it. Here is the full list of everyone who has been involved.

Last update: 15 October 2024

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