[Sca-librarians] Vatican Library News

[Johnna Holloway]

Exciting news

Johnna

They have announced that the Vatican Library is going to digitize  
their collection of 80,000 manuscripts.

An initiative of the Vatican Library Digital manuscripts

Cesare Pasini

The digitization of 80,000 manuscripts of the Vatican Library, it  
should be realized, is not a light-hearted project. Even with only a  
rough calculation one can foresee the need to reproduce 40 million  
pages with a mountain of computer data, to the order of 45 petabytes  
(that is, 45 million billion bytes). This obviously means pages  
variously written and illustrated or annotated, to be photographed  
with the highest definition, to include the greatest amount of data  
and avoid having to repeat the immense undertaking in the future.snipped

This project may be achieved over a span of 10 years divided into  
three phases, with possible intervals between them.

http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?ling=eng
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