Visit to the Venice State Archives

Post date: Nov 13, 2015 2:42:58 PM

Hi everyone,

Yesterday, the team had the opportunity to visit the Venice State Archives. The archives stores government documents from the time of the Republic to current day. Among these documents there are several letter written by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to the ambassador of Venice in Paris. The team then had the opportunity to look and read documents from the 1200's. This gave us ideas on how we could include manuscripts describing similar events into our timeline.

The team also learned about new techniques the Archives is using to digitize and transcribe the manuscripts. Specially of one that scans manuscripts and measures the iron levels to determine the content of the pages and replicate it without the need of opening the manuscripts as this might damage them.

Apart from this we got to meet the assistant curator of the Arctic Museum in Maine, Ann Witty and hope to talk to her in the coming days to get their intake on our application. Overall this experience served us as motivation to keep working on our application while giving us some extra ideas on how to include manuscripts into our application.

The Chronology Team