# Toth 2008: Archimedes Palimpsest Digital Release README Document

> Mike Toth, Doug Emery, 2008. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Source for the licence, the file structure and the extra leaves included.

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# Archimedes Palimpsest Digital Release README Document

Mike Toth, Doug Emery, 2008. _The Archimedes Palimpsest data set (hosted by University of Pennsylvania Libraries, OPenn)_.

The release document for the digital palimpsest, dated 29 October 2008: rights (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported), audience, structure of the core image and transcription data, documentation, schemas and the location of the 16-bit originals.

**Archimedes Palimpsest** ReportChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Source for the licence, the file structure and the extra leaves included.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Archimedes Palimpsest original 16-bit images (RIT mirror)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CT7NCX46M3S/archimedes-palimpsest-original-16-bit-images-rit-mirror)

Dataset

DAT

[Archimedes, Hyperides and Categories commentary transcriptions (TEI XML) with line-to-image mappings](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CT7ND4Y6DQ7/archimedes-hyperides-and-categories-commentary)

Dataset

DAT

[The release gives, for each folio, registered multiband images, pseudocolour renderings, XRF maps and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7N5JR0GAX/the-release-gives-for-each-folio-registered-multiband-images)

Evidence

EVD

[The release keeps every band as a registered image, so new processing can be applied without new imaging.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7NA763H96/the-release-keeps-every-band-as-a-registered-image-so-new)

Evidence

EVD

[The Archimedes Palimpsest](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest)

The mystery article

MYS

[Did the imaging programme recover the erased Archimedes text wherever the parchment survives?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/questions/QST0CT7N43W11MX/did-the-imaging-programme-recover-the-erased-archimedes-text)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Toth, M., & Emery, D. (2008). Archimedes Palimpsest Digital Release README Document. The Archimedes Palimpsest data set (hosted by University of Pennsylvania Libraries, OPenn). https://archimedespalimpsest.net/0_ReadMe.txt
```

[Read it free at archimedespalimpsest.net](https://archimedespalimpsest.net/0_ReadMe.txt)

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**SRC** 0CT7MTBC0B1K

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Report

Rights

CC-BY-3.0

Kept

27 Oct 2026

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Against the published original

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