Reminds me of a talk I went to by a Benedictine monk who has spent time traveling the world digitizing texts that are at risk, especially when they're threatene

Reminds me of a talk I went to by a Benedictine monk who has spent time traveling the world digitizing texts that are at risk, especially when they're threatened by religious persecution or war. Really fascinating talk, perhaps the closest thing I've seen to a real-life Indiana Jones[1]. If you're curious about what kind of a digital life these texts could have, I'll shamelessly plug a project I've worked on for Coptic texts[2]. OCRing a document (or more commonly for Coptic, at least for now, hand-transcribing it) is often just the beginning of the ideal digital edition: there are all kinds of things humanists want, including Uniform Resource Names (URNs), linguistic annotations (POS tags, syntactic trees), orthographic normalization (i.e., bringing spelling conventions in line with modern editorial standards), and so on. [1] I think this is him: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/03/13/columba-stewart-manuscripts https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/03/13/columba-stewart-m... [2] Example document, a kind of parable about early church fathers from a body of works, the Apophthegmata Patrum: http://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/ap/ap096n281bread/analytic http://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/ap/ap096n281bread/an...