Vatican chooses Open Source

CIO of the Vatican Apostolic Library (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) Ammenti Luciano (Luciano Ammenti) conference EMC World сообщил listeners that he adheres to the ideas of free software. Senior Ammenti now heads the process of digitization of a large number of ancient manuscripts of the library and seriously concerned about the conservation and availability of knowledge and 50 years.

Vatican Library holds nearly 82,000 documents. To convert them into digital form and then posted on the Internet the staff of the Holy See intended to use the format TIFF, but they were stopped by the fact that the format is not enough that the closed and last updated in 1998. In addition, the format of TIFF - 32-bit and is not ready to create a stereo. As mentioned Senor Ammenti use Microsoft Word or Power Point - it is generally a bad idea, because nobody can be sure whether people will be able to read them in half a century.

As a result, experts opted for a graphical format FITS (Flexible Image Transport System), which is in contrast to the TIFF has all the required qualities: it is open, regularly updated, 64-bit and appropriate to create 3D-image (a 3D refers to the color plane). FITS was created NASA in 1979 for storing and sharing files, receiving astronomical observatories using digital telescopes. In 2008, FITS 3.0 version has been adopted as a standard by the International Astronomical Union.

Pope Francis 1 about a year ago назвал Internet "God's gift", but still warned young people against possible isolation for communication within the network. Despite this, Francis 1 believes that the Internet & quot; ... gives a great opportunity to meet people belonging to different cultures, and to find common language with them & quot ;.

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