One and a half million old documents will be posted online

Now many organizations are engaged in the translation of ordinary books and valuable documents into digital copies. The project, which is organized by the Vatican and Oxford University, is one of the largest in this area. The Vatican Library and the Bodleian Library of Oxford are going to digitize about one and a half million ancient manuscripts and printed books.

According to the initiators of the project, the documents of Ancient Greece, the first printed books and other similar works will be subjected to digitization. Currently, all these documents exist only in the form of a hard copy, so it is rather difficult to study them. But after digitizing documents will be available to all professionals. Accordingly, the process of studying such documents is greatly simplified.
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Documents that will be digitized include Gutenberg’s books, old copies of the Bible (already printed) and other rarities. Handwritten copies of works by ancient authors, including Hippocrates, Homer, Sophocles and many others, will also undergo digitization. Of course, such a large project requires significant financial investments. The sponsor in this case is the Polonsky Foundation. For the implementation of the project allocated 2 million pounds.

All digitized documents will be placed in the so-called “World Digital Library” fund. This library contains documents from funds and library stores of dozens of countries (173 countries).

Via guardian