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  • November 19, 2025

    High-resolution scanner digitizing an illuminated manuscript page.

    RIT innovation helps illuminate lost history

    The goal of libraries, museums, and archives around the world is to safeguard historical documents, but some objects can deteriorate with time. RIT’s Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) lab is using funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a relatively low-cost system that makes cultural heritage imaging methods more accessible.