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Project Sponsors
The Years of the Cupola was undertaken as a
"pilot project" by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, which
has
financed it directly since 1994. The project has also enjoyed
significant
outside financial support. The Opera gratefully acknowledges the grants
received
from:
The Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul
Getty Trust
Assessorato della Cultura of the Regione
Toscana
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
John Treacy and Darcy F. Beyer
The Opera further thanks the following institutions for
important collaborative contributions essential to the realization of
the project:
Max-Planck-Institut for the History of Science,
Berlin - conversion of data into XML format and HTML programming
for Internet; mirror site in Berlin
ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online) -
programming for the prototype of the virtual archive of images and
contribution towards the cost of acquisition and preparation of
photographic material
Department for the
Conservation of Books and Manuscripts, Fachhochschule, Cologne
– digital
photography of flood-damaged books
Institute of Computational
Linguistics of the National Research Council (C.N.R.), Pisa,
DBT group – furnishing and
customization of basic software for data analysis and consultation in
DBT
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