January 30, 2013
(Romereports.com) Texts, letters and manuscripts previously available only to experts with access to the Vatican's Library are now just a click away.
The 256 documents are the first to
be made available to anyone, simply by logging on to the website of the
Vatican Apostolic Library. But the project is much more ambitious.
MONS. CESARE PASINI Prefect, Vatican Apostolic Library (Nov. 24, 2011)
“It
will be all of the manuscripts. To be more precise, all of the
manuscripts that are conserved within the manuscript deposit in the
Library. There are about 80,000.”
The project started in late 2011, and employs the use of technology from NASA to digitize the documents. But, it will take years.
Once finished, the files will use up approximately 4.5 million gigabytes in the Vatican Library's external hard-drive.
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