Hi, I’m Helen Davies
I am an assistant professor of the digital humanities in the English department and co-director of the Center for the Digital Humanities at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. I work on multispectral imaging to recover lost, damaged and illegible cultural heritage objects. My research focuses mostly on recovering medieval maps, but I use this technology for documents far beyond the medieval in my work.
This website provides a home for documents related to my teaching, articles I have published in my research and multispectral imaging data for your practice and use.
My Approach
Multispectral imaging has traditionally been an expensive processes reserved for the most prestigious of medieval manuscripts. I am working to expand the technology beyond the boundaries of research libraries and private universities. My approach advocates for the use of accessible, open-access technologies for image capture and processing. I aim to expand the archive so that traditionally overlooked documents and people can be included and highlighted in the historical record. To that end, I want to empower people to reclaim histories from the family to the community. This website works to make MSI training resources and the results from previous projects widely available. So often, MSI data remains isolated on hard drives buried in an office somewhere. I hope this helps expand access to the raw MSI data.