{"id":6734,"date":"2014-09-30T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=6734"},"modified":"2014-09-30T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:00:36","slug":"the-brown-charter-digital-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/the-brown-charter-digital-discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture | The Brown Charter: Digital Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2014\/09\/imbr00000004842_02md_WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6736 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2014\/09\/imbr00000004842_02md_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"imbr00000004842_02md_WEB\" width=\"268\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2014\/09\/imbr00000004842_02md_WEB.jpg 268w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2014\/09\/imbr00000004842_02md_WEB-100x69.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2014\/09\/imbr00000004842_02md_WEB-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2014\/09\/imbr00000004842_02md_WEB-200x138.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>Brown University&#8217;s <span class=\"il\">Charter<\/span> manuscript exists as two pieces of water-damaged parchment, with few visible letters. To coincide with Brown\u2019s 250th anniversary, Rachel Lapkin, Library Materials Conservator, began working with Digital Production Services photographer Lindsay Elgin to see if modern imaging techniques could reveal more of the original manuscript. Learn about the characteristics of parchment, and of manuscript ink, and how these traits can be exploited by specialized lighting and processing techniques to allow for closer examination into this object\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5pt;line-height: normal\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> Tuesday, October 14, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5pt;line-height: normal\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 4 pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5pt;line-height: normal\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Lownes Room, John Hay Library<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5pt;line-height: normal\"><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5pt;line-height: normal\">Rachel Lapkin, Library Materials Conservator<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5pt;line-height: normal\">Lindsay Elgin, Photographer, Digital Production Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown University&#8217;s Charter manuscript exists as two pieces of water-damaged parchment, with few visible letters. To coincide with Brown\u2019s 250th anniversary, Rachel Lapkin, Library Materials Conservator, began working with Digital Production Services photographer Lindsay Elgin to see if modern imaging techniques could reveal more of the original manuscript. Learn about the characteristics of parchment, and <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/the-brown-charter-digital-discoveries\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Lecture | The Brown Charter: Digital Discoveries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-hay","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}