jeudi 10 avril 2014

Digital Access To Dead Sea Scrolls Opening Up

By Cornelius Nunev


When it comes to old texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls are regarded as one of probably the most important old texts discovered in the last few decades. The largest assortment of Dead Sea Scrolls has been stored in the Israel Museum. The museum has faced criticism about the limited admittance they provide to the files. Now, worldwide admittance to the files is being offered online. The Israel Museum and Google have partnered to supply the access to these files.

Dead Sea Scrolls digitization project

In the last few years, the Dead Sea Scrolls digitization job has been going on. There was development of a new camera. This was done so that the photos won't be deteriorated with a special environment while also taking pictures at 1,200 megapixels. The scrolls and fragments will be put into an online, searchable database after being photographed and gathered. The main goal is to give admittance to the scrolls to as several people as possible. It won't be long before the scrolls can be accessed. In a few more years, or in 2016, they will be accessible.

Google will be helping too

The Dead Sea Scrolls digitization job is something Google will spend a lot of time with. The database of scroll photos is stored on Google Storage, and the site is run on the Google Apps motor. The pages are all searchable, transcribed and indexed for search results. That is one thing the Google team has been working on. This isn't something very different from what Google has done in the past. It is just like Google's Art Project, Prado Museum and holocaust photo collection.

Scroll remarks

The scanned versions of the Dead Sea Scrolls allow for something very unusual - direct comments. The Dead Sea Scroll sections can have comments posted to them by viewers. Over time, researchers will be keeping an eye on what amateur scientists discover in the scrolls as potential further areas for research. To be able to determine a ton of scroll document fragments and pieces, this could be very helpful. The Israel Museum doesn't own all of these pieces and fragments, but Google has offered to assist in digitizing those fragments if the owners wish to make them available.




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