{"id":4150,"date":"2026-03-03T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:00:00","slug":"february-2026-first-set-of-samples-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/2026\/03\/03\/february-2026-first-set-of-samples-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026: First set of samples taken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The end of a fantastic week in Spain and we now have about half of the samples for the PPROTEX project. After 2 days in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bne.es\/es\">Biblioteca Nacional de Espa\u00f1a<\/a> I\u2019d like to thank the wonderful members of the Departamento de Manuscritos, Incunables y Raros and the Departamento de Preservaci\u00f3n y Conservaci\u00f3n de Fondos, and especially Luz D\u00edaz Gal\u00e1n for her professionalism, knowledge and apparently limitless patience.<br><br>(The small mountain of nitrile gloves does get used again\u2026)<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"royalsociety.org\">The Royal Society<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leverhulme.ac.uk\/\">The Leverhulme Trust<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/\">The British Academy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4148\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2026\/03\/IMG_0220-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of a fantastic week in Spain and we now have about half of the samples for the PPROTEX project. After 2 days in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espa\u00f1a I\u2019d like to thank the wonderful members of the Departamento de Manuscritos, Incunables y Raros and the Departamento de Preservaci\u00f3n y Conservaci\u00f3n de Fondos, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/2026\/03\/03\/february-2026-first-set-of-samples-taken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February 2026: First set of samples taken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}