Digital Scrolling Paintings: A Conversation with Amanda Rybin and Katherine Renhe Tsiang

摘要

This is the fourth in an occasional series of conversations that PDT&C conducts with people who are engaged with digital preservation. This one took place over email in June and July 2014. Librarian Amanda Rybin collaborates with faculty, students, and staff "to implement innovative technologies and create relevant, high-quality visual resources for teaching and research."1 Most recently she was Associate Director of the Visual Resources Center (VRC) at the University of Chicago. Rybin has published an article about the project in Art Documentation.2 Katherine Tsiang creates library resources and organizes educational programs, including an annual symposium in East Asian Art, as Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia (CAEA). She also "coordinates the post-doc fellowship and visiting scholars programs, publications, and special projects including the Scrolling Paintings Project for digital imaging of East Asian handscroll paintings and an important research project on the Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan and the culture of the Northern Qi Dynasty."3 Most recently she has co-authored "Introduction" (with Zhang Zong), and "History and Art of the Cave of the Engraved Scriptures at Northern Xiangtangshan," in a volume published by the Fengfeng Mining District Office of Protection and Management of Cultural Relics; and Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, The Cave of the Engraved Scriptures at Northern Xiangtangshang (Beijing: Wenwu Publishing House, 2013).