Multispectral dataset recovering faded and illegible text on specimen labels at the Natural History Museum (CeNak) of the University of Hamburg. The analyzed specimen labels were for an Argonauta, Isopeda immanis, Octopus vulgars, and Pachycephala, and an additional three white labels. Dataset contains raw image data as well as processed images.

Images in preview are compressed and of lower quality. They are mainly intended to serve as thumbnails. Original hiqh quality TIF images can be found in the Color and PROCESSED folder below (zip file). For information about filenames and folderstructure as well as MSI system related info, please read the "Brief Description of Datasets for Multispectral Imaging."

The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.