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British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection at a Cost of $12.1 M. in Response to Thefts (www.artnews.com)

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The British Museum will update or upgrade records of 2.4 million items to increase security and public access.

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[–] Kecessa 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Museums and universities vaults are full of forgotten items that have never been properly analyzed or translated, stuff that should be in the public domain as crowd sourcing the analysis/having people work on AI tools to translate texts would greatly accelerate the work required to preserved these objects...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seriously, cheap computers (relatively speaking) have been around for 50 years. There's no real excuse that the inventory of any museum or university hasn't been digitized yet.