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

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    3 年前

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

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      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…