DIAMM Case study

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The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music is a portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (excluding plainchant). The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1550, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe. Detailed information for all the known sources of European polyphonic music (which is almost entirely vocal) is given and high-quality colour images of some manuscripts images preserved by DIAMM. The initial work was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board; the development of DIAMM is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the service is provided by the University of Oxford, and Royal Holloway University of London.

The technical information section provides a wealth of information on the processes, procedures and decision-making involved with creating the resource. In particular, it includes information on the virtual restoration work undertaken on the images to return faded fragments of manuscripts of medieval polyphony seemingly damaged beyond repair to a readable state.

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