The Natural History Museum is going high tech to save its archive | WIRED UK

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-12-22

Summary:

"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."

Link:

http://www.wired.co.uk/gallery/natural-history-museum-digitising-80-million-specimens-lego

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Tags:

oa.new oa.museums oa.glam oa.digitization oa.images oa.specimens oa.3d oa.ch

Date tagged:

12/22/2017, 09:13

Date published:

12/22/2017, 10:47