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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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[–] hanni@lemmy.one 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And give the original pieces back to the original owners, right?

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I like your humor, do you have a YouTube channel?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

A little ironic for the British Museum to complain about important cultural artifacts being stolen, isn't it?

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All historical items of significance should be 3D scanned into computers and made public. Everything is on borrowed time.

[–] theplanlessman@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly shocked this hasn't happened already. How can a world class museum not have a centralised inventory of all its items?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

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...

[–] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

im gonna steal all their nfts

[–] robotopera@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

$5/digitization. Not bad.