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Miscellaneous Chatter => Literature => Topic started by: Madness on December 30, 2017, 12:08:01 am

Title: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online
Post by: Madness on December 30, 2017, 12:08:01 am
3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online (http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/3500-occult-manuscripts-will-be-digitized-made-freely-available-online.html)
Title: Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online
Post by: TaoHorror on December 30, 2017, 04:06:39 pm
3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online (http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/3500-occult-manuscripts-will-be-digitized-made-freely-available-online.html)

Does Digitizing mean copies of the pages or the text typed into the digital page so it's more legible and can search, etc?
Title: Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online
Post by: Wilshire on January 02, 2018, 08:19:03 pm
The article and two of the links I clicked through didn't explicitly say either way.
My guess, given what the video was showing of how intricate a lot of these books are constructed, I'd guess that 'digitized' will mean closer to 'photographed pages compiled as PDFs' rather than a re-writing of them to allow search-ability.

Then again, 300k euro is a lot of cash to photocopy a few thousand books, so maybe there will be a bit of both.
Title: Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online
Post by: Madness on January 09, 2018, 04:54:49 pm
Does Digitizing mean copies of the pages or the text typed into the digital page so it's more legible and can search, etc?

I'm sure I just did the same thing that Wilshire did but I concur with #2. Probably just scanning them in order to make them accessible as PDFs.