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Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the ArchimedesPalimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project toconserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work,involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of peopleworking around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released itsdata. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the ancient world.It  is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many wavebands oflight with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts that arespatially mapped to those images.  It has pushed boundaries for the imagingof documents, and relied almost exclusively on current internationalstandards.  We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital resourcefor the decades to come.  We also hope it will be helpful as an example forothers who are conducting similar work. It published under a CreativeCommons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the potentialfor widespread use.  A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested textsis available on Googlebooks as ³The Archimedes Palimpsest².  It is hopedthat this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put.For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit:http://www.archimedespalimpsest.orgFor the dataset, please visit:http://www.archimedespalimpsest.netWe have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Anymember can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a member,please email:wnoel@thewalters.orgI would be grateful if you would circulate this to your friends andcolleagues.Thank you very muchWill NoelThe Walters Art MuseumOctober 29th, 2008.