The Natural History Museum is going high tech to save its archive | WIRED UK
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"London's Natural History Museum is digitising its specimens – all 80 million of them. "We need to record them to create data in aggregate," says Vince Smith, the museum's head of informatics. With the collection including everything from a blue whale skeleton to Martian meteorites, progress is understandably slow: since the project started in 2014, the museum has only digitised 4.5 per cent of the collection. Undeterred, the 11-person digital collections team has set its sights on recording 20 million specimens in the next few years with specially developed kit."
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