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.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    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.