{"id":639877,"date":"2012-07-12T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=a7a98fa3accbc0384ff30d7c2a11895f"},"modified":"2012-07-12T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:46:46","slug":"st-catherines-monastery-seeks-permanence-through-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639877","title":{"rendered":"St. Catherine&#8217;s monastery seeks permanence through technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/news\/st-catherine-monastery-seeks-permanence-through-technology\" >Egypt Independent<\/a> (James Purtill)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>St. Catherine\u2019s Monastery is going digital. The monastery that claims to be the oldest in the world \u00ad\u2014 not destroyed, not abandoned in 17 centuries \u2014 has begun digitizing its ancient manuscripts for the use of scholars. A new library to facilitate the process is about five years away.<\/p>\n<p>The librarian, Father Justin, says the monastery\u2019s library will grow an internet database of first-millennium manuscripts, which up until now have been kept under lock and key. Should a scholar want a manuscript, they need only email Father Justin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if I don\u2019t have book but see a reference, I can email a friend in Oxford. They can scan and send it the next day,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as natural and inevitable as it sounds, that\u2019s quite the sea change. Just 10 years ago, bad phone lines made it hard to connect a call with the monastery. One hundred years ago, it took 10 days to travel from Suez with a caravan of camels.&nbsp; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt Independent (James Purtill) St. Catherine\u2019s Monastery is going digital. The monastery that claims to be the oldest in the world \u00ad\u2014 not destroyed, not abandoned in 17 centuries \u2014 has begun digitizing its ancient manuscripts for the use of scholars. A new library to facilitate the process is about five years away. The librarian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}