2019-11-12T12:34:26-08:00 2018-12-31 Bruce A Gray CPA 843 Settlers Dr Milliken CO 805433228 990 2018-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps President 2019-11-12 true Brewster A Gray CPA CGMA P00388792 9705789950 X 2018 2020-04-17 16:48:07Z Michael B Phelps 904 Silver Spur Road 254 Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 639620 false 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 379204 639578 5618 0 32 42 0 384854 639620 0 0 81676 95005 0 0 281627 333438 363303 428443 21551 211177 166368 376761 46147 46357 120221 330404 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. false false 398875 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. Began new project with St. Catherines Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, to digitally photograph its extensive manuscript library, beginning with its Arabic and Syriac manuscripts. The Monastery holds the worlds oldest continually operating library, and it is endangered due to the presence of ISIS on the Sinai Peninsula. As part of this new project, EMEL installed four digitization work stations at the Monastery, recruited and trained camera operators, and undertook four four-week digitization sessions onsite in the Sinai (Egypt). Conducted project with Cambridge University Library, U.K., to spectrally image a palimpsest, the erased layer of which preserves the oldest New Testament manuscript to include comments by early Christian authors alongside the biblical text (July 2018). Continued processing of spectral data for a project with the Ambrosiana Library of Milan, Italy, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Processing of spectral data captured in 2017 led to the recovery of texts that were erased and overwritten some 1,000 years ago. They included a 5th century copy of the Book of Jubilees, the only surviving copy of the Testament of Moses (both ancient Jewish texts) and the only surviving copy of an ancient Christian commentary on the Gospel of Luke. Conducted a meeting of scholars and scientists at Tyndale House in Cambridge, U.K., to interpret the results of a project with the Museum of the Bible, Oklahoma City, that used multi-spectral imaging to recover ancient texts of the Bible and ancient Greek classics that were erased and overwritten in the 9th century (May 2018). Organized a meeting of scholars and librarians in Athens, Greece, to discuss methods and standards for cataloging Arabic and Syriac manuscripts (September 2018). Visited the Vatican Library to discuss potential future collaboration (November 2018). Began negotiations to create at Hellenic Heritage Imaging Center based in Athens, Greece, that will facilitate the development of imaging projects in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. The proposed imaging center will include Greek and U.S. participating institutions. Gave educational presentations of the work of EMEL at churches and to scholars and students at conferences. Conference presentations included: the keynote address for a conference on cultural heritage preservation at the University of Rochester (March 2018); multiple presentations during a conference on palimpsest manuscripts in Vienna (April 2018); presentation on palimpsest imaging at conference on digital humanities in Hamburg, Germany (June 2018); presentation at a conference on visual heritage in Vienna (November 2018); and a presentation on the spectral imaging of parchment manuscripts at a conference on art and archaeology in Jerusalem (December 2018). 398875 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 false false false true 8 0 true 3 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false 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 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 639578 639578 0 42 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 639620 42 X 0 0 0 0 58800 58800 0 28650 11700 16950 0 0 7555 6091 1464 0 0 5610 5610 0 0 0 149471 149471 0 829 829 0 0 252 252 0 0 4873 4873 1 1 0 13428 13428 1857 1857 Project Develop & Imaging 83653 83653 Image Processing 37149 37149 Cataloguing 12992 12992 Storage 12042 12042 11281 8676 2605 428443 398875 29568 0 19947 244226 93555 93097 0 0 0 0 318 318 0 0 413714 374594 52548 39120 0 0 0 0 0 166368 376761 10536 11357 35611 35000 46147 46357 X 120221 330404 120221 330404 166368 376761 X 211177 -994 X false false false X 472252 145745 367632 379204 639578 2004411 0 0 0 0 472252 145745 367632 379204 639578 2004411 11000 11000 0 11000 11000 1993411 96 73 10 32 42 253 0 96 73 10 32 42 253 0 0 472348 145818 367642 379236 639620 2004664 0.99440 0.76700 0.00010 0.00020 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 293714 283623 10091 120000 90971 29029 39120 Middle East 0 1 Research and Digitization Digital imaging 398875 1 1 398875 398875 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. 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