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

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

  • hanni@lemmy.one
    261·
    1 year ago

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

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    222·
    1 year ago

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

  • Zellith@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

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

  • theplanlessman@feddit.ukEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    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
      91·
      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…

      • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
        1·
        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.