Video: A Demonstration on How the Vatican is Digitizing its Sacred Texts
Digital access to the vatican’s vast collection of old manuscripts are slowly becoming more accessible thanks to a four year collaboration between the church and Japanese digital technology group, NTT Data. In the video below of the announcement, you can see some of that process. It’s pretty fascinating, especially if you like old, dusty pages, or if you’ve never seen the interior of the Vatican library, where the physical manuscripts actually live.
It’s not in English so we’ve also shared the translated texts of the transcript below, after the jump.
‘Today, NTT DATA and the Vatican Apostolic Library agreed upon and signed the initial contract for participating in the operation that will ultimately digitise and preserve about 80,000 volumes and 41 million pages of manuscripts that can be considered part of the historical heritage of humanity, dating back from between the second and the twentieth centuries AD,” President of NTT Data, Toshio...
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