Solve the Voynich to save the world
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Who to contact? :: Personell-wise, i have no idea. my address book is somewhat thin on top class academics   Cry
What kind of people do you look for ? :: The best. Cash

What do you do? :: Create a big control centre with lots of  Heart  big screens and  flashing lights  Heart
                  Assemble the below teams.

which assignments do you give them? :: See below.

1) Computer team Nerd 
    OCR to create: Fonts, Transcriptions.
    Supervised, unsupervised, Human assisted text analysis.

2) Linguists 
    Perform study and analysis of the text they work closely with Team 1.

3) Some way of aiding good communication between teams.

4) Big international team of Art historians
  and/ or people who are familiar with searching around libraries around the world
  to find image similarites,similar mss's.

4a) Photographers to accompany MSS search team to upload anything found back to base.

5) Image specialists
    To perform every possible photography method of all VMS pages, Raman, UV ,multispectral etc.

6) Physical book team (whatever that science is called) to study all the bindings, vellum, all that stuff.
  This team can also have a look around in the VMS maybe theres a corpse of a bookworm to study, etc

7) DNA team
  works with the physical team to do any analysis and suggest where and what could be tested.

8) Historians
  who could persue the provenance of the VMS.

9) A few Journal editors from Nature or PLOS One, a couple of science journalists.
  To explore and suggest any other methods, , these are the folk who would know of such things
  and they could document the whole project if they have any spare time.

10) Statisticians
    Just a couple of these to explain, generate, suggest, validate any statistical stuff.
    Would work mostly with Team1 and Team2
   
11) General staff for base control centre.
    To keep it running smoothly, make the lights flash perhaps generate some beeping noises. Cool
    and to make me coffee - Coffee after all i am in charge   Tongue
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Solve the Voynich to save the world - by Koen G - 02-08-2020, 10:17 AM
RE: Solve the Voynich to save the world - by RobGea - 02-08-2020, 04:09 PM

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