Virual Vellum

“Virtual Vellum is an e-Science demonstrator project that has been funded by EPRSC/JISC/Arts & Humanities e-Science Initiative and the UK e-Science Core Programme with the aim of promoting and demonstrating the use of technology within arts and humanities research. The aim of the project is to investigate technologies that facilitate the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting of very high resolution image datasets (typically greater than 8k x 6k pixels). Each dataset may consist of many hundred images, such as those from digitised manuscripts. The project is based in the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield. The website provides information about the project; screen shots of the Virtual Vellum demonstrator; a link to the project wiki; and downloads including PowerPoint slides, a project flyer and poster”.