Little things slow down the process of putting 40 million pages of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library online: gold or silver in the illuminations, bindings that disintegrate if you open them, getting the synergy right.
“It is important to
realize if there is gold or silver in a manuscript. That requires a very
particular process because the light will be different,” said Luciano Ammenti, who is in charge of IT at the Vatican and the project to digitize the storied library’s 82,000 manuscripts.
The project, finally
up and running a year after its announcement, uses an armada of
equipment to capture the vast range of pages amassed by the Vatican over
five or six centuries into one of the world’s most valuable collection
of books and manuscripts.
Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/02/digitizing_history_82000manuscript_collection_vatican_library_goes_online.html
Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/02/digitizing_history_82000manuscript_collection_vatican_library_goes_online.html
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