British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection at a Cost of $12.1 M. in Response to Thefts

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-digitize-collection-thefts-comments-parliament-1234683315/

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 · 24 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

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

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 2y

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

Zellith@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y

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

theplanlessman@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

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...

xkforce@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Are they going to return the stuff they stole afterward?

robotopera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

$5/digitization. Not bad.

HerbalGamer@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

im gonna steal all their nfts