Dead Sea Scroll Digitization Project Providing Admittance

Written By Admin on Sabtu, 28 September 2013 | 02.30

By Cornelius Nunev


The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the best-known and most important old documents discovered in years. The ancient files are mainly located in museums in the Middle East. The Israel Museum was lambasted in the past for not supplying more extensive access to the fragile and damaged documents. Now, through a relationship with Google, the Dead Sea Scrolls are being scanned and supplied online.

Getting the Dead Sea Scrolls online

There has been lots of progress with the Dead Sea Scrolls digitization project. For a few years, individuals have been working on it. There was development of a brand new camera. This was done so that the photos will not 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. As several people as possible are needed to have admittance to the scrolls. The goal is to get it out there for everybody. All of the scrolls should be accessible online by 2016.

Israel Museum works with Google

Google has had very heavy involvement with the Dead Sea Scrolls digitization job. The site utilizes the Google Apps motor to run while Google Storage holds all of the scroll photos. The Google team has also made each scanned page a searchable, transcribed document that is indexed in search outcomes. This relationship is comparable to Google's Art Project, Prado Museum and Holocaust photo collection.

Remarks allowed on scrolls

Direct commentary is allowed on the digitized version of the Dead Sea Scrolls which is very strange. Viewers will be allowed to comment on the specific sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls. To be able to look at more things in depth that may be essential, researchers will look into what scientists are finding in the scrolls. In order 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 supplied to assist in digitizing those fragments if the owners wish to make them available.




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