NTT Data designs the system that has allowed the Vatican Library funds to be digitized

more than 4.000 manuscripts from Vatican Apostolic Library funds have been digitized and can be visited on the Internet. A project in which NTT Data has participated designing the digital system with which it is possible to access these images in high resolution.

The project for the digitization of the Vatican Apostolic Library began at the end of March 2014, with the signing of a four-year contract by NTT Data, IT services corporation to which it belongs Everis, to digitize part of the ecclesiastical file.

NTT Data has implemented its Amlad technology to establish the infrastructure needed for long-term file storage, custody and visualization of digital samples. Today, is optimizing the management of its metadata technology to develop an efficient search function for the digital archive of the Vatican Apostolic Library.

This whole digital file, which is already accessible in Internet, collects images in high resolution and can be viewed through NTT Data's digital file solution, Amlad. It's an intuitive, cross-platform viewer compatible with all devices, whether computers or tablets.

"With this project we fulfill our mission to make available to everyone some of humanity's best-known treasures, through collaboration and sharing of knowledge of institutions and companies around the world", explains Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library.

The new digital archive of the Vatican Apostolic Library can also be viewed from the Vatican Digita, a foundation that raises funds for the conservation projects of the Holy See's historical archives to be carried out.

 

Vatican Apostolic Library

The Vatican Apostolic Library, known as "the Pope's Library", is headquartered in Vatican City and was founded by Pope Nicholas V Parentucelli in the 15th century.

This library houses more than 82.000 Manuscripts, 100.000 file units, 1,6 millions of books (of which 8.700 pre-15th century), 400.000 coins and medals, 100.000 engravings and their matrices, as well as 150.000 Photographs.

The Library contains extensive documentation of human history and thought, as well as literature, mathematics, scientific knowledge, law and medicine, from the earliest centuries of Christian civilization to the present day, in different languages of all cultures, from the East to pre-Columbian America.

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