Tracing the origins of incunabula through the automatic identification of fonts in digitised documents

Lacasta, Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Nogueras-Iso, Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Zarazaga-Soria, F. Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Pedraza-Gracia, Manuel-José (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Incunabula are the texts printed mainly during the second half of 15th century that are a key cultural element in a revolutionary period of the history and evolution of the book and the printing. In these books, the identification of their origin largely affects its academic, cultural, patrimonial, and economical value. This paper proposes a process to automate the identification of the origin of a digitised incunable document using the Proctor/Haebler method, a commonly established procedure in the field. This process has been validated with a selected dataset obtained from the incunabula collection at the digital repository of the University of Zaragoza.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-13108-3

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Multimedia Tools and Applications 81 (2022), 40977–40991
ISSN: 1380-7501

Factor impacto JCR: 3.6 (2022)

Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING rank: 32 / 108 = 0.296 (2022) - Q2 - T1
Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC rank: 107 / 274 = 0.391 (2022) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS rank: 33 / 111 = 0.297 (2022) - Q2 - T1
Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS rank: 82 / 158 = 0.519 (2022) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 6.1 - Computer Science (Q1) - Engineering (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.72 - Media Technology (Q1) - Software (Q2) - Computer Networks and Communications (Q2) - Hardware and Architecture (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S65-20D
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T59-20R

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Biblioteconomía y Docum. (Dpto. Ciencias Doc. Hª Ciencia)
Área (Departamento): Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. (Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms.)