omartrinidad/archeology

Datenanalyse von Aztec-Codices

Vor kurzem, hat der Vatikan viele digitalisierte Dokumente veröffentlicht.

Einige dieser Dokumente sind die aztekischen Kodizes, die für die mesoamerikanische Archäologie von besonderem Interesse sind.

Die Idee des Projekts besteht darin, mindestens eines dieser Kodizes zu untersuchen. Die verfügbaren Codices sind:

• Codex Borgia
• Codex Vaticanus B 3773

Data Analysis of Aztec Codices

From some time to now, the Vatican Library has released many digitized documents. Some of those documents are the Aztec codices, which are from special interest to the Mesoamerican Archeology.

The idea of the project is to explore at least one of those codices. The the codices available are:

• Codex Borgia
• Codex Vaticanus B 3773

Tasks in mind

• Scrape the image files.
• Apply simple image preprocessing tasks, such as, delete borders or enhance contrast.
• Color analysis: Can lead to simple, but still, interesting data visualizations (R has rich data visualization tool set).
• Extract the symbols.
• Identify similar symbols (maybe using clustering).
• Identify simple patterns.

Packages

• jsonlite