{"id":1829,"date":"2013-05-03T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2013-05-03T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:40:21","slug":"digitizing-history-82000-manuscript-collection-vatican-library-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/05\/03\/digitizing-history-82000-manuscript-collection-vatican-library-goes-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitizing history: 82,000-manuscript collection Vatican Library goes online"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1830\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/05\/vatican.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1830\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/05\/vatican.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE \/ AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Little things slow down the process of putting 40 million pages of ancient manuscripts in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaticanlibrary.va\/home.php\">Vatican Library <\/a>online: gold or silver in the illuminations, bindings that disintegrate if you open them, getting the synergy right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt 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,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaticanlibrary.va\/home.php?pag=ufficio_ced&amp;ling=eng\">Luciano Ammenti<\/a>, who is in charge of IT at the Vatican and the project to digitize the storied library\u2019s 82,000 manuscripts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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\u2019s most valuable collection of books and manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2013\/05\/02\/digitizing_history_82000manuscript_collection_vatican_library_goes_online.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little things slow down the process of putting 40 million pages of ancient manuscripts in the\u00a0Vatican Library online: gold or silver in the illuminations, bindings that disintegrate if you open them, getting the synergy right. \u201cIt is important to realize if there is gold or silver in a manuscript. That requires a very particular process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}