Faster Digitizing, More Equipment And Staff At Armenia’s Ancient Man

FASTER DIGITIZING, MORE EQUIPMENT AND STAFF AT ARMENIA’S ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM

news.am
Sept 22 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Digitizing process at Matenadaran (Armenian ancient
manuscript museum) will accelerate, Matenadaran will soon receive new
digitizing equipment, Matenadaran Director’s advisor Gurgen Gasparyan
told Armenian News-NEWS.am. In his words, this equipment, which is
fairly expensive, will be acquired through benefactors. According to
Gasparyan, more employees will be hired for Matenadaran’s digitizing
department, which will now have 15 instead of just the current 6 staff
members. Quality equipment and more personnel will enable faster and
better-quality digitizing.

“At present, approximately 2,000 manuscripts are digitized, but there
are a total of 17,000,” Gasparyan said, adding that, on the average,
one employee digitizes around 500 stills per day, and 80,000 per year.

Digitizing at Matenadaran had begun in early 2008. As Armenian
News-NEWS.am reported earlier, digitized material can be read on
computers at the reading room of Matenadaran’s new building.

From: A. Papazian