2020-11-12T07:24:11-08:00 2019-12-31 Bruce A Gray CPA 843 Settlers Dr Milliken CO 80543 990 2019-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps President 2020-11-12 true Brewster A Gray CPA CGMA P00388792 9705789950 X 2019 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Michael B Phelps 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 336094 false X N/A Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. 6 5 3 0 639578 336061 0 42 33 0 639620 336094 0 0 95005 86906 0 308 333438 440266 428443 527172 211177 -191078 376761 190491 46357 51165 330404 139326 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. false false 501030 EMEL pursued its core mission in projects that used scientific imaging technologies to recover illegible texts in ancient and medieval manuscripts and to digitally photograph an endangered manuscript library for preservation and access. EMEL continued its work to digitally photograph the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts of St. Catherines Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt. The Monastery holds the worlds oldest continually operating library, and is endangered due to the presence of ISIS on the Sinai Peninsula. EMEL undertook six four-week digitization sessions at the Monastery and is collaborating with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to publish the resulting images online for free and global access. EMEL applied spectral imaging to a 10th century manuscript of the Torah or Pentateuch held by the Museum of the Bible (Washington, DC). The Museum is hosting the images online for free and global access. EMEL applied spectral imaging to a palimpsest manuscript at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, in order to recover the erased layer of the manuscript. The erased layer preserves a unique copy of a treatise by Aelius Herodianus, a 2nd century CE grammarian and linguist. EMEL concluded an agreement with universities and research organizations in the U.S. and Greece to establish the Hellenic Heritage Imaging Center based in Athens, Greece, that will facilitate the development of imaging projects in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. In addition to EMEL, participating entities include: the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, UCLA, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Arethas Institut (Athens). Gave educational presentations of the work of EMEL at churches and to scholars and students at conferences, including a presentation of the spectral imaging of manuscripts at the University of Athens. 501030 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 true 3 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true false false false false false false CA X Michael B Phelps 9098965900 306 Bayoak Drive Cary NC 27513 Michael B Phelps Chairman 40.00 0.00 X X 58800 0 0 Claudia Rapp Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Randy Merritt Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Dimitri Antsos Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 James A Sanders Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matt McGovern Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 58800 0 false false false 0 336061 336061 0 33 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 336094 33 0 0 0 0 58800 58800 0 22025 3759 18266 0 0 6081 4873 1208 0 0 648 648 0 0 0 0 0 455 455 0 0 0 501 501 0 0 0 0 4036 3027 807 202 2125 1594 425 106 Project Develop & Imaging 387897 387897 Conservation 19933 19933 Image Processing 14066 14066 Cataloguing 5891 5891 4714 1190 3524 527172 501030 25834 308 244226 53368 93097 102039 0 0 0 0 318 0 0 0 413714 378630 39120 35084 0 0 0 0 0 376761 190491 11357 16165 35000 35000 46357 51165 X 330404 139326 330404 139326 376761 190491 -191078 X false false false X 145745 367632 379204 639578 336061 1868220 0 0 0 0 145745 367632 379204 639578 336061 1868220 1000 2000 3000 0 1000 2000 3000 1865220 73 10 32 42 33 190 0 73 10 32 42 33 190 0 0 145818 367642 379236 639620 336094 1868410 0.99830 0.99440 0.00010 0.00010 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 293714 287659 6055 120000 90971 29029 35084 Middle East 0 1 Research and Digitization Research and Digitization 358400 Europe 0 0 Research and Digitization Research and Digitization 49430 1 1 407830 407830 false false false false false false Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Form 990 is reviewed by Chairman and provided to other board members for comment. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Documents are available upon request.