Wiener-Anspach Alumna Amélie Deblauwe, Senior Digitisation Technician at the University of Cambridge, is among the experts photographed in the December issue of National Geographic, featuring an article entitled “Inside the cloak-and-dagger search for sacred texts”.
Amélie was photographed with her colleague Błażej Mikuła from the Cambridge University Library’s Digital Content Unit, while they positioned “pages from a 10th-century Masoretic Hebrew Bible on a table in preparation for a high-resolution digital photograph”. “The unit’s goal”, writes the magazine, “is to image all the library’s content for the Cambridge Digital Library”
This video by the Cambridge University Library presents the tecnique used by Amélie and her colleagues.
Picture copyright : @ Paolo Verzone (National Geographic, décembre 2018)