Preserving the Vatican's Historic Treasures

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The Bibliotheca Apostolica, as the Vatican Library is known, is one of the oldest libraries in the world and contains nearly 90,000 historic books, documents, papyrus texts and other ancient treasures. In order to preserve and make them available to scholars and historians around the world, the Vatican is embarking upon a multi-year project to digitize, store, archive and put the entire collection on line.

EMC is working with systems integrator partner Dedagroup, and providing 2.8 petabytes of storage capacity -- enough to store the 40 million pages of digitized manuscript -- across our industry-leading Isilon, Atmos, Data Domain, Networker and VNX solutions over the initial three years of the project. Content will be preserved in an ISO-certifiable digital format that will protect the delicate texts from the deterioration and decay that can be caused by repeated handling.

EMC's sponsorship forms part of our 'Information Heritage Initiative', which works to protect and preserve the world's information for future generations and make it globally accessible in digital form for research and education purposes. In this instance, we are truly "Preserving the Vatican's Treasures".

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[Tim Sullivan]

I wonder how long its going to take...no one mentioned that.

[EMCCorp]

The process is just beginning and they are expecting the initial phase to last four years. After that, there will no doubt be more books which have been restored and ready to digitize.

[Chuck Hollis]

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[Brad Beadel]

I would love to go over to Rome and work on something like this especially if I was getting paid to do so. Going to be one huge project. It would mean doing something not many people would get to do and hopefully allowed to roam the grounds of The Vatican.

[rhon6464]

Kewl can you let us know when you got anything online?

[rhon6464]

So kewl I can hardly wait!

[uoitofsogroj]

Vaticans owns and keeps in darkness 200,000 GREEK BOOKS

[CLA UDIU]

because the lord jesus said satan would gather the worlds leaders and force a one world goverment

the purpouse of this is to force all humans to worship satans anti christ who is the leader of these worlds leaders who worship satan

satans wanths to destroy peoples souls thats what hes after and that is why he is conspiring to decieve all humanity

the lord jesus warned us

if you cant read the signs than satan has really enslaved your mind

free yourself through jesus

[odatas]

why the fuck is every page 150 Mbyte??? That is fukcing hughe....

[TheSanityInspector]

Dear conspiracy nuts, please answer this: Why do you think that you are *worth* conspiring against?

[TheSanityInspector]

I'm guessing funding won't be a problem.