When Document 2.0 meets Document 0.0
One of the first “documents” to have ever existed (pre-Document 1.0 !) is being “resurrected” and made avaliable through (relatively) modern Document technology.
The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament is being made whole again, online this time. The Codex Sinaiticus was written in the 4th century, and parts of it were spread across the world – in Britain, Russia, Germany and even a monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert.
The British library will make the full text of this Codex available to Web users by next July.
I always use the Gutenberg Bible as a milestone in the Document history, but this one is even more powerful ! I am looking forward to see how the Codex Sinaiticus web site will come up – hopefully contrasting the Documents with lots of cool Document 2.0 technologies (annotation, collaboration, rich content, etc…) !
