The Digitization Project
Ninety years of Adventist history, digitized.
Turn ninety years of Adventist history, 1840 to 1930, into the knowledge base that powers AdventAI - fueling research, study, and AI generation across the platform. Far more than searchable.
86,325 pages transcribed
360,734 to go
19.3% of 447,059 book and periodical pages
$24,000 raised
$60,000 needed
$36,000 still to raise
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What we're building
Ninety years of history, made intelligent.
From the 1840s to the 1930s, Seventh-day Adventists left a remarkable record of their faith, mission, and history across a vast run of periodicals.
Most of it survives only as fragile scans - hard to read, difficult to search, and near invisible to AI. Our main focus is digitizing these periodicals in full - not only the well-known names, but every article - and folding them into the knowledge base behind AdventAI, so the platform can search, study, research, and generate from this history, not merely store it.
Alongside the periodicals, we're also digitizing around 1,500 pioneer and historical works - and Ellen White's books - so one connected library can span the movement's first decades.
- Ninety years of history covered
- 1840–1930
- Pioneer & historical works queued
- ~1,500
The result isn't just readable text, but structured, source-grounded content - every paragraph tied to its original page, ready for study, citation, search, translation, teaching, and media.
Preservation & restoration
Restoring the images, not only the words.
Engravings, portraits, and photographs were printed on aging paper - faded, stained, often barely legible. Alongside the text, we use AI to gently clean, repair, and restore them, bringing back detail that time had worn away while staying faithful to the original.
