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

More than 4.000 manuscripts from the collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library 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 archive.

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

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

“With this project we fulfill our mission of making some of humanity's best-known treasures available to everyone., through the collaboration and sharing of knowledge of institutions and companies around the planet”, 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 website Type Vaticana, a foundation that obtains funds to carry out conservation projects for the historical archives of the Holy See.

 

Vatican Apostolic Library

The Apostolic Library of the Vatican, known as “the Pope's Library”, It is based in the 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 drives, 1,6 millions of books (of which 8.700 They are before the 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 history and human thought, as well as literature, mathematics, scientific knowledge, law and medicine, from the first centuries of Christian civilization to the present, in different languages ​​of all cultures, from the East to pre-Columbian America.