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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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[–] [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.