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The book was discovered inside a library of irreplaceable books at the University of Copenhagen. The library contains some of the most important books and writi
by goto11 6y ago
The book was discovered inside a library of irreplaceable books at the University of Copenhagen. The library contains some of the most important books and writings for Scandinavian history. They know how to handle old books and have access to professional equipment designed for digitizing old and fragile manuscript.
Here is a bit more detail: https://manuscript.ku.dk/news/a-new-discovery-in-the-arnamagnaean-collection/ https://manuscript.ku.dk/news/a-new-discovery-in-the-arnamag...
- WalterBright 6y agoAnd it still isn't digitized and at risk of loss while everyone wrings their hands about budgets and schedules and perfection and what an abomination a phone picture would be :-) BTW, I watched a segment on TV on the Vatican Library where they turned pages on ancient books by - turning the pages! For gosh sakes, these are not Dead Sea Scroll fragments.
- goto11 6y agoYou can see some of their digitized manuscripts here: https://manuscript.ku.dk/about/digitised_manuscripts/ https://manuscript.ku.dk/about/digitised_manuscripts/ They seem to know how to digitize a book. Do you have any legitimate reason to believe the University of Copenhagen "wrings their hands" and need a HN-reader with a smartphone to save them?
- HarrisReid 6y agohttps://anyforsoft.com/blog/what-digital-experience-platform-dxp/ https://anyforsoft.com/blog/what-digital-experience-platform...
- WalterBright 6y agoHave they scanned the book yet? Nope. Case closed.
- goto11 6y agoI don't know if the book is already scanned or not? Note the article is a year and a half old. A multi-year project to create a digital edition is under way https://nors.ku.dk/english/research/arnamagnaean/the-book-of-books/ https://nors.ku.dk/english/research/arnamagnaean/the-book-of... but will run til 2023. Of course scanning is just a small part of this. I seriously doubt that taking photos with a smartphone will be faster than using professional equipment. The scanners have automated and semi-automated page turners which can be used depending on the state of the book. The have "beds" for holding fragile books which cannot be opened fully. Digitization is certainly an important part of preservation, but speedily leafing through a fragile old book with a smartphone in one hand is not the way to do it. They inspect the material very carefully even before the scanning because it would be pretty dumb to destroy the book in the process.
- WalterBright 6y ago> Note the article is a year and a half old. Indeed, and I meant when the article was written. You're not going to use an automated page turner on anything fragile. Note that the book was open fully for the photograph for the article.