With the ever evolving progression in all technological fields, we are often provided with new technological means that improve our way of handling and understanding our books and documents.
We recently welcomed Jean-Sébastien Rey from the University of Lorraine.The reason for his visit was due to preparations for an important edition of the Ben Sira manuscripts (Deux feuillets du Siracide, XIe-XIIe s., ID1 and ID2), an edition that will be both in paper and in digital form (with images of the manuscripts and the edition in front of it, all combined with various modules of artificial intelligence and automatic language processors to help researchers in the analysis of the text and to establish connections to the biblical and rabbinical corpus). This project is carried out by Biblissma+, a digital program that brings together 17 basic research and service insitutions – including the AIU – devoted to the transmission of ancient texts from Antiaquity to the Rennaissance in the East to the West.
The aim of this half-day workshop was to take multispectral photographs of the Ben Sira manuscripts, allowing us to see elements that are not visible to the naked eye or on more traditional photographs.
