Sunday 29 September 2013

Dead Sea Scroll Digitization Job Offering Admittance

By Cornelius Nunev


When it comes to old texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered one of probably the most significant old texts discovered in the last couple of generations. The documents are delicate and many are broken. Due to this, the museum has limited access to the files, a move that has been questionable. Now, global admittance to the documents is being provided online. The Israel Museum and Google have partnered to supply the admittance to these files.

A lot of work needed for Dead Sea Scrolls to be posted

In the last few years, the Dead Sea Scrolls digitization job has been going on. To be able to photograph the documents at 1,200 megapixels in the environment that will protect the files from deteriorating, a brand new camera was developed. There will be photos taken of each scroll and fragment. Then, these pictures will be put in a searchable database after being gathered. The idea is to offer access to the scrolls to as large an audience as possible. It will not be long before the scrolls could be accessed. In a few more years, or in 2016, they'll be accessible.

Google partners up with Israel Museum

Google has had very heavy involvement with the Dead Sea Scrolls digitization project. All scroll photos are located in a database on Google Storage. The Google Apps engine is what runs the site. The pages are all searchable, transcribed and indexed for search results. That is one thing the Google team has been working on. This relationship is comparable to Google's Art Project, Prado Museum and Holocaust photo collection.

Scroll comments

It is very strange for something such as the Dead Sea Scrolls to allow comments. This will be allowed with the scanned version. Viewers can look at the sections and make comments. The Dead Sea Scrolls may become more productive with this. To be able to look at more things in depth that can be important, researchers will look into what researchers are finding in the scrolls. In order to determine a ton of scroll document fragments and pieces, this could be very helpful. Google has said it will support digitize those fragments for any person who wants them to be made available for everyone else who has pieces since the Israel Museum doesn't have them all.




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