Piql Book of References

Vatican Library Case Study

“ Our dream is to convert our historic manuscripts to Piql, and thus be able to give this information to the next generations and to the future.

The Vatican Library invited Piql to demonstrate the technology through the delivery of a pilot project. The priceless and well-known Dante Alighieri’s “La Div ina Commedia” was chosen. Preserved on PiqlFilm, the manuscript is now stored safely in Piql’s Artic World Archive on Svalbard, Norway. Following the success of the pilot project, the Vati can Library have decided to digitize 500 irreplaceable documents of great historical value and ensure pres ervation and accessibility for coming generations for 500 years. Manuscripts were selected by the Vatican Library based on their historical and cultural value, and the risk the of deterioration and permanent loss. The proj ect includes the preservation of documents such as a text written by Luke the Evangelist and a hand-written version of the Coran. The project is kindly supported by SCG Chemicals, a leading petrochemical company in Asia and research partner of Piql.

Luciano Ammenti, Vatican Library

CHALLENGE

For 500 years, the Vatican Library has fulfilled its fun damental purpose of gathering, preserving and restor ing its patrimony of books and documents to make them available to all. It holds some of the oldest and most sacred texts including notes by artists and scien tists such as Michelangelo and Galileo, as well as trea ties from all eras in history. This task of preservation and access has been de manding because the consultation of ancient books naturally causes wear, with the risk of deterioration in creasing over time. However, the Vatican is very clear that providing free access to its collections to scholars from around the world is a mandate it would never fail to deliver.

FUTURE

This project, 500 manuscripts for 500 years will no doubt be one of the most significant and important preservation projects of our time as we seek to pre serve humanity’s cultural heritage. The project is now seeking additional sponsors to fur ther facilitate the preservation of the chosen manu scripts.

A secure, long term solution was needed to ensure that this history is not lost for future generations.

In a world where everything happens so fast but doesn’t last for long, the Vatican Library needed a solution that would ensure timeless preservation. On line for accessibility but offline for absolute safety.

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SOLUTION

Piql shares the same vision as the Vatican Library re garding long-term digital preservation and guaranteed future access. Piql’s philosophy and ability to transfer information and culture to the future appealed to the Vatican Library, along with the reliability of the Piql system. The eternal nature of film, combined with its fu ture-proof accessibility made it the optimal choice over other storage mediums.