On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 12:27:54 PM UTC-5, Yisroel Markov wrote:

This sounds like the same technology that DARPA outsourced with a
$50,000 prize back in 2011: The Unshredder, an Israeli company. http://www.unshredder.com/the-challenge/w1/i1001783/

Dead Sea Scrolls project will use latest tech to solve 'ultimate
jigsaw'

Ambitious collaboration aims to make sense of 20,000 fragments of 2,000-year-old texts that have baffled researchers for decades

Israel on Tuesday announced an ambitious new project aimed at finally
piecing together some of the thousands of fragments of the
2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that have mystified experts since
their discovery in the 1940s and 1950s. The $1.75 million project aims
to utilize the latest digital tools to help researchers identify
connections between fragments, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.
It also involves unprecedented cooperation between key scholars,
computer science experts, and archives in Israel and overseas. [...]

The new collaborative project is being funded to the tune 1.6 million
euros (some $1.75 million) by the Deutsch-Israelische-Projektförderung
(DIP). It will see cooperation involving the IAA and the universities
of Haifa, Tel Aviv and Göttingen in Germany. Databases and resources
will be linked between the Qumran-Lexicon-project at the Göttingen
Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls
Digital Library of the IAA to create "an enhanced hands-on virtual
workspace that will allow scholars around the world to work together simultaneously," the IAA said, "as well as a new platform for
collaborative production and publication of Dead Sea Scrolls editions.

Full article at http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-dead-sea-scrolls-project-will-use-latest-technology-to-solve-ultimate-jigsaw/
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a most excellent project thanks for sharing

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