# #Preservation > Blog posts tagged #Preservation - Canonical page: https://shorin.me/en/tags/Preservation/ - Page language: English - Russian version: https://shorin.me/tags/Preservation/index.md ### [The Ostromir Gospel](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/ostromirovo-evangelie/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-31 The Ostromir Gospel is the oldest surviving precisely dated East Slavic manuscript (1056–1057), created for St Sophia's Cathedral in Novgorod and preserved intact. ### [Preserving Heritage](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/sohranenie-naslediya/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-15 How libraries preserve cultural heritage – from inventories and identifying books in need of repair to dozens of conservation and restoration processes. ### [Notes in the Margins](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/biblioteka-voltera/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-10 The story of Voltaire’s Library at the National Library of Russia: marginalia, aphorisms, letters to Catherine II and a remarkable mystical tale. ### [The Gutenberg Bible](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/gutenberg-bible/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-01 The story of the Gutenberg Bible – the first printed book, which transformed the world of knowledge. From the printing press to the rare copies, two of which I have seen myself. ### [Author Inscriptions](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/avtorskie-nadpisi/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-28 Dedications can turn ordinary copies into rarities. My collection includes dozens of signed books – among them one that went to space and an LNS RAS anniversary edition. ### [Watermarks](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/watermark/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-26 Continuing my series on digitising ancient manuscripts. Today: watermarks, how they reveal where paper came from, and why beta radiography is the best way to detect them. ### [Piql Storage](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/piql-storage/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-19 Continuing the story of Piql technology. Data recorded on film is stored in the Arctic World Archive on Svalbard – underground in the permafrost, protected for centuries. ### [The Prayer Book of Mary, Queen of Scots](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/chasovnik/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-17 Mary, Queen of Scots’ prayer book went from childhood gift to witness to her execution. Marked by the queen’s fate, it is now held by the National Library of Russia. ### [Piql Technology](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/piql/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-10 Continuing my series on the 500x500xBAV project. The Vatican Library chose Piql: data is stored on 35 mm film in alternating digital and analogue formats. ### [The Laurentian Codex](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/lavr-letopis/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-05 The story of the Laurentian Codex, the oldest surviving dated Russian chronicle. In 2012, I oversaw its digitisation, translation and transliteration. ### [Iron Gall Ink](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/chernila/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-03 Continuing my series on digitising Vatican manuscripts: how iron gall ink corrodes paper from within and threatens texts by Leonardo da Vinci and Bach. ### [Book Deacidification](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/book-neutralization/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-29 The destructive truth about paper: lignin makes books yellow and crumble. The National Library of Russia uses deacidification – but can treat only kilograms each week. ### [500x500xBAV](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/500-na-500/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-22 The Vatican Library’s 500x500xBAV project will preserve 500 priceless manuscripts for 500 years. How can humanity’s cultural heritage be safeguarded for future generations? ### [Lighting for Digitisation](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/lightning/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-20 Continuing my Vatican Library series: how uneven and embossed manuscript pages are digitised using multiple photographs, careful camera angles, and precisely controlled lighting. ### [Endless Recopying](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/endless-copying/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-17 Reflecting on the fragility of digital data: the National Library of Russia introduced continuous data migration, while a new study explores long-term knowledge preservation. ### [Storage Media](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/storage-device/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-13 Reflecting on digital heritage: in 27 years in IT, I have seen dozens of media and formats come and go. How can data survive for centuries if even 30 years is uncertain? ### [The Vatican Library’s Data Centres](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/bav-datacenter/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-02 Continuing my Vatican Library series: how analogue and digital preservation work together. Its two data centres – one black, one white – serve different roles across two countries. ### [Analogue Media](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/04/analog-storage/index.md) - Published: 2024-04-24 Digitisation makes knowledge more accessible – but not forever. A reflection on fragile digital memory and what remains when every photo and document lives only in the cloud. ### [Layers in Digitisation](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/04/digitazing-layers/index.md) - Published: 2024-04-19 How Vatican Library specialists reveal hidden layers of text on parchment using different wavelengths of light and digital image processing. ### [Digitisation at the Vatican Library](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/04/vatican-library-digitization/index.md) - Published: 2024-04-15 How the Vatican Library digitises rare books using planetary scanners, specialised lighting, glare removal, and careful handling of every page. ### [Vatican Library](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/04/vatican-library/index.md) - Published: 2024-04-10 I visited one of the most exclusive libraries – the Vatican Library. I led the Russian delegation on the digital transformation of libraries.