{"id":6545,"date":"2014-11-05T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2014-11-04T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:01:05","slug":"digitizing-old-manuscripts-at-the-morgan-library-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/digitizing-old-manuscripts-at-the-morgan-library-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitizing old manuscripts at The Morgan Library in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6547\" style=\"width: 668px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/11\/GBible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6547\" class=\"wp-image-6547\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/11\/GBible.jpg\" alt=\"Views of Gutenberg Bible\" width=\"658\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/11\/GBible.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/11\/GBible-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2014\/11\/GBible-1024x465.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Views of Gutenberg Bible<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Google has digitized millions of print books already, but some old manuscripts, like <em>The Gutenberg Bible<\/em>, need a very special treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The 700-year manuscript is not only the most precious cultural heritage. It\u2019s also a fragile volume only a limited number of people can access without making a damage.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s digitization that can let millions of people look inside <em>The Gutenberg Bible<\/em> or <em>The Little Prince<\/em>. Since the books are available online as digital files, it\u2019s safe to look at them millions of times.<\/p>\n<p>A special, very advanced technology, is used to preserve old manuscripts in a digital form. Phase One is the cultural heritage digitization solution that includes reprographic camera systems, scanners, and film scanning kits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebookfriendly.com\/how-old-manuscripts-are-digitized-video\/\">View article with amazing video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has digitized millions of print books already, but some old manuscripts, like The Gutenberg Bible, need a very special treatment. The 700-year manuscript is not only the most precious cultural heritage. It\u2019s also a fragile volume only a limited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/digitizing-old-manuscripts-at-the-morgan-library-in-new-york\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}