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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 29/06/2026

Want to learn more about using advanced technical imaging? Sign up now for our 2-hour Archiving 2026 short course on the subject. Late enough make it with a Monday afternoon flight/train to Boston, but early enough to not miss happy hour and the welcome reception www.imaging.org/IST/iCore/Ev...

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 16/10/2025

Great opportunity for scholars to carry on Will Noel's legacy at Princeton University Library with the Will Noel Innovative Cultural Heritage Research Grant library.princeton.edu/services/spe...

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Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grants

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 09/08/2025

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" www.emersonkent.com/speeches/pea...

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Peace in Our Time - Neville Chamberlain 1938

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 07/08/2025

Always great to get back to SLAC SSRL and great team there. Hard to believe 20 years since we 1st did pioneering X-Ray Fluorescence imaging of Archimedes Palimpsest with Will Noel & Uwe Bergmann. This set the stage for continued XRF cultural heritage studies of manuscripts, printed works & fossils.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 01/08/2025

Today we honor Will Noel's 60th Birthday. His legacy lives on in continued open access data sharing, advanced imaging & collaboration. To further honor him donate to the William G. Noel Eureka Fund for the digitization of manuscripts & innovative imaging www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

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William G. Noel Eureka Fund

Help Digital Scriptorium reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 15/05/2025

Pleased we could support Harvard Law Library with advanced multispectral imaging for its authentication of original 1300 Magna Carta www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/magn...

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A Magna Carta at Harvard Law School | Harvard Magazine

A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 11/04/2025

Good summary of the impact of cuts to 0.000054 percent of the federal budget slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Trump’s Latest Cuts Will Hit Small-Town Culture Hard

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

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NEH Grants 2025

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We are grateful to donors who have already given, but those past donations won’t tide us over forever. We need more financial support for our staff and students. Please consider making a donation as we carry on our work. rrchnm.org/news/carryin...

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Carrying On When the Grants Go Away – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

For literally pennies per person we reach, we’ve had a huge impact on public understandings of the past. We can keep doing the important work of democratizing access to history because of people like you, who have donated to RRCHNM’s work in the past.

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Last week we learned that 6 of our active NEH awards—totaling $789k in unspent funds—were immediately terminated by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.This is obviously a blow, and a serious one, to our work.But we will carry on. To see our terminated grants rrchnm.org/news/carryin...

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Carrying On When the Grants Go Away – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

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National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded. Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

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Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance

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National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It is imperative that grantees who have been affected by the terminations reach out to their Members of Congress directly. We can help you make this contact. Fill out this form to let NHA know about the termination & get contact info for the appropriate staffers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Notify NHA about grant terminations!

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 08/04/2025

Traces of US soldiers during our Civil War lost with NEH cuts: "The graffiti on these walls is raw, unadorned, uncensored, sometimes profane, and often poignant, offering us insights into soldiers’ voices and behaviors that have nothing to do with keeping up appearances for a home front audience."

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Things are moving along with the Graffiti Houses Project! Here are some photos of the measuring and imaging processes used to document the historic graffiti. Photo credit: Matthew Kaiser, City of Fairfax, VA, taken January 17.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 24/01/2025

Our imaging of soldiers' graffiti in a Northern Virginia Civil War era house today was colder than December in St. Catherine's Monastery at 5,200 feet in the Sinai a number of years ago

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 09/12/2024

Recent article reflects on the leadership of Will Noel in this initial installment of his rich legacy, including pioneering work with optical and x-ray imaging during the early 2000s: www.iflscience.com/that-time-a-...

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That Time A Particle Accelerator Helped Discover The Lost Works Of Archimedes

The ancient polymath probably would have approved.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 25/11/2024

Kicking off @nehgov.bsky.social grant for digitization of historic US Civil War soldiers graffiti with readily available technology & @georgemasonu.bsky.social

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

HMML's digitization work in Mali is complete. Partnerships with hundreds of manuscript repositories resulted in the creation of an estimated 4.25 million unique image files, representing 302,000 manuscripts digitally preserved. Cataloging is ongoing.  Learn more: hmml.org/stories/a-de...

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A Decade in Mali

“It began with a dinner in 2013...”

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 02/07/2024

Paper in latest @sims_mss Journal highlights importance of open access to all multispectral image data for continued & varied research "A Second Look at Multispectral Data of Late Medieval Music Manuscripts" muse.jhu.edu/article/930878

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Project MUSE - A Second Look at Multispectral Data of Late Medieval Music Manuscripts

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 21/06/2024

Will Noel's legacy of open data was recognized in a White House ceremony with family and friends 11 years ago today

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 10/06/2024

Following our multispectral imaging of manuscripts in Ambrosiana Library, Milan, production of statistically processed greyscale and pseudocolor images is now supporting scholarly research

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 22/05/2024

This year's streaming Smithsonian lecture on 3 June will include our recent work in Milan, as well as Harvard and other projects this busy spring. Sign up now: smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/ti...

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From Ancient History to the Heavens: Digital Technology Reveals Insights

The earliest known copy of work by Archimedes. Gutenberg and other early Bibles and Muslim manuscripts. Historical astronomical plates. All these historical objects have been digitized by Michael B. T...

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

It helps to have multiple perspectives when considering works of art and their history. And it can be extra fun when done with more than 20 wavelengths of light and colleagues like @rbtothassociate.bsky.social. See, for example, what's revealed in a palimpsest: hmml.org/research/pal...

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HMML Palimpsest Project

HMML Palimpsest Project aka palimpsest palimpset palimsest palimpest

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Multispectral tests can also help identify the best imaging techniques for photographing works made with certain inks. Watch Mattia Preti's drawing of a putto move through wavelengths in tests conducted by @rbtothassociate.bsky.social at HMML: hmml.org/stories/multispectral-imaging-tests-at-hmml

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Multispectral Imaging Tests at HMML

“In July 2021, a series of multispectral imaging tests were conducted at HMML by Mike Toth of...”

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 20/05/2024

Shifting from imaging imaging mid-19th C American paintings in the States to 6th Century Bible at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, hauling some heavy gear on looong flights in between

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 11/05/2024

Imaging some Hudson River School paintings to support research into the artists, provenance and technique. Perhaps a Thomas Cole among them??

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

We are extremely saddened to hear that Will Noel passed away yesterday. He was a pioneer in the field of digital manuscript studies, a relentless advocate of open access and friend and colleague to many in the digital medievalist community. He will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family.

Portrait of William Noel. A tall man with glasses sitting on a flight of wooden stairs in front of a library full of books.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 11/04/2024

Register for our 2024 Smithsonian Associates Virtual Program - From Ancient History to the Heavens: Digital Technology Reveals Insights; Monday, June 3, 2024 at 6:45 p.m. ET https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/digital-technology-reveals-insights

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 04/04/2024

Early observations of 1918 Solar Eclipse by Harvard Observatory astronomers captured with cumbersome and fragile glass photographic plates, now digitized with our multispectral imaging system

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