ryanfb.xyz Ryan Baumann
Around the web:
Featured projects:
Papyri.info
Searchable & editable metadata, transcriptions, and translations for ancient papyri.
Loebolus
Making the public domain Loebs more easily downloadable.
Index of Ancient Greek Lexica
Search for headwords across Ancient Greek dictionaries.Book Aligner
Automatic alignment of books between HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Google Books, etc.
Latin OCR for Tesseract
Latin OCR training data and tools for Tesseract.
Gnom. Vat.
English translations from the Gnomologium Vaticanum and Die Wiener Apophthegmen-Sammlung.
iiif-dl
Ruby script for downloading IIIF images.
dzi-dl
Ruby script for downloading Deep Zoom images.
bl-dl
Script for downloading manuscript images from the British Library.
dlflickr
Ruby scripts for downloading Flickr photos and associated metadata.
google-fusion-tables-backup
Ruby script for backing up your Google Fusion Tables data to CSV.
GeoRefine
A geospatial processing extension for OpenRefine.
RotateBake
RotateBake is a Mac app for baking EXIF rotation into images. You know your iPhone images that show up rotated wrong in Safari? Yeah, this fixes that.
Macduff
Macduff is a tool for finding the Macbeth ColorChecker chart in an image.
Manuscript Images on Flickr
Creative Commons licensed manuscript images mirrored on Flickr for redundancy and alternative access methods (API, notes, comments, browsing, etc.).
Selected publications:
- Automatic Perspective Correction of Manuscript Images. ICADL 2012.
- The Son of Suda On-Line: Collaborative editing and workflow tool. Digital Humanities 2011.
- Robust Registration of Manuscript Images. 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2009.
- Opportunities for Epigraphy in the Context of 3D Digitization. ASGLE 2009 joint APA/AIA Panel.
- The Use of Micro-CT in the Study of Archaeological Artifacts. 9th International Art Conference in Jerusalem on Non-destructive Investigation and Analysis. 2008.
- Imaging the Venetus A Manuscript for the Homer Multitext. Digital Humanities 2008.
- A Catadioptric Projector System with Application to Pseudo HDR Display (Poster). ACM SIGGRAPH 2007.
As seen on:
- “A Collaboratory for Classics”. Campus Technology. .
- “Ancient documents go digital at Duke”. WRAL. .
- “Duke Classics Scholar Finds Another Home in the Library”. The Chronicle of Higher Education. .
- “Coolest jobs in tech: decoding life, touring solar systems”. Ars Technica. .
- “UK team digs into data from scroll scans”. Lexington Herald-Leader. .
- “The Next Age of Discovery”. Wall Street Journal. .
- “Backpack helps researcher working in imaging of ancient texts”. 37signals. .