OPEN SOURCEÂ is key for humanity to preserve its history in the digital age, Vatican Library CIO Luciano Ammenti has argued.
“The Vatican Library is a conservation library. We try to preserve our history. We tried to expand the number of reading rooms available for people that want to use our library,” he said.
“But we realised that reading rooms will never be enough. We have 82,000 manuscripts in total, and at any one time only 20 percent of them can be read in the library.