Salone Sistino SECURITY WHERE THE HISTORY LIVES VATICAN LIBRARY MISSION The Vatican Library is institutionally a library of preservation which for more than 500 years has fulfilled its fundamental role, preserving, protecting and restoring the patrimony of books kept there. This daunting task was made even more difficult because the Vatican Library has never forgotten that free consultation of its immense patrimony for scholars from around the world was a mandate from which the Library could not be dispensed. VATICAN LIBRARY CHALLENGES Quite in keeping with this role and knowing the needs to also preserve its manuscripts for the future generations, the Library started a project of "long-term digital preservation" that on one hand gives all possible guarantees of longevity of the realized technological product and on the other would allow the disclosure of the manuscripts possessed by the Vatican Library to a wide representation of users worldwide.
The Vatican Library is institutionally a library of preservation which for more than 500 years has fulfilled its fundamental role, preserving, protecting and restoring the patrimony of books kept there. This daunting task was made even more difficult because the Vatican Library has never forgotten that free consultation of its immense patrimony for scholars from around the world was a mandate from which the Library could not be dispensed.
VATICAN LIBRARY CHALLENGES
Quite in keeping with this role and knowing the needs to also preserve its manuscripts for the future generations, the Library started a project of "long-term digital preservation" that on one hand gives all possible guarantees of longevity of the realized technological product and on the other would allow the disclosure of the manuscripts possessed by the Vatican Library to a wide representation of users worldwide.
FRAGILE AND RARE COLLECTIONS
Vatican Library stores precious documents like: –the main ancient sample of the Greek version of the Bible –the two late-ancient manuscripts withVirgilio’sworks illustrated by wonderful miniatures –monastic collections from the medieval period; –some examples of illustrated Dantesque Comedy –wide fields of knowledge in several languages
GOSPEL OF LUCA WITH THE TEXT OF THE "OUR FATHER"
SECURITY SYSTEMS
RFID tags store all data: –Silicon solid memory –Reprogrammable –Archives historical book data and history –Inventory –Transactions –Removals –Restoration –Who managed and red the book –Chip data are distributed on extended network via web