Google And Israel Museum Provide Digital Dead Sea Scroll Access

By Cornelius Nunev


The Dead Sea Scrolls are often considered one of the most essential series of historical texts found to date. The Israel Museum was lambasted in the past for not delivering more extensive admittance to the delicate and broken files. Now the Israel Museum has combined with Google to offer electronic admittance to the documents.

Project to scan Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls digitization project has been ongoing for the past few years. There was development of a brand new camera. This was done so that the photos won't be deteriorated with a special environment while also taking pictures at 1,200 megapixels. Each scroll and fragment is being carefully photographed, then gathered and placed online in a searchable database. The primary goal is to give access to the scrolls to as several people as possible. It will not be long before the scrolls can be accessed. In a few more years, or in 2016, they'll be accessible.

Israel Museum works with Google

The Dead Sea Scrolls digitization project is something Google will spend a lot of time with. All scroll photos are located in a database on Google Storage. The Google Apps motor is what runs the site. The Google team has also made each digitized page a searchable, transcribed document that is indexed in search outcomes. This partnership is similar to Google's Art Project, Prado Museum and Holocaust photo collection.

Comments allowed on scrolls

Direct commentary is allowed on the digitized version of the Dead Sea Scrolls which is very strange. Viewers will be allowed to comment on the specific sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls. What the researchers are finding in the scrolls will be viewed carefully by experts. This will allow them to research further the things that may be of interest. This is something researchers will really appreciate. This is particularly true when looking at the thousands of scroll document fragments and pieces that need to be deciphered. The Israel Museum does not own all of these pieces and fragments, but Google has supplied to help in digitizing those fragments if the owners wish to make them available.




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