Vatican City, 20 March 2014 (VIS) –
This morning in the Holy See Press Office a press conference was held
to present the agreement signed by NTT Data and the Vatican Apostolic
Library for the plan to digitally archive 82,000 manuscripts. The
speakers were: Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, O.P., archivist and
librarian of the Holy Roman Church, Msgr. Cesare Pasini, prefect of
the Vatican Apostolic Library, and Toshio Iwamoto and Patrizio
Mapelli, presidents and CEOs of the NTT Data Corporation and the NTT
Data EMEA respectively. NTT Data is a technological services provider
known throughout the world for its expertise in the field of IT and
communications structures.
“With this project, the Library
consolidates one of its many relationships with institutions in
various regions of the world, in the light of its overall policy, its
aims and its objectives”, explained Archbishop Brugues. “It does
so through is manuscripts, which are a sign of the universality of
culture: the manuscripts which will be digitally archived range from
pre-Columbian America to the Chinese and Japanese Far East,
encompassing all the cultures and languages that have inspired
European culture. The humanistic mission that characterises the
Library opens it to all that is human, including mankind's various
'cultural peripheries'; and with this humanistic spirit it seeks to
conserve and make available the immense treasure of humanity that has
been entrusted to it. For this reason, the Library will digitise it
and make it available on the web”.
The project consists of an initial
four-year phase during which three thousand manuscripts will be
digitised, which may be extended into a second phase to include the
82,000 volumes – more than 40 million pages – of manuscripts
preserved in the Library and dating from between the second and
twentieth centuries.
“All manuscipts digitised through
this operation will be released on the Vatican Apostolic Library's
website as high-definition data. As a result, numerous researchers in
the fields of academia and in various fields of knowledge will be
able to interpret the valuable manuscripts, to which access had long
been restricted, in their original form”, declared the president of
the NTT Data Corporation.
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