British Museum to fully digitise collection after ‘inside job’ thefts
London, UKReuters The British Museum plans to digitise its entire collection, citing the need to secure public access to its vast catalogue after it reported in August that 2,000 artefacts had been stolen or were missing. The museum, one of the most visited in the world, has been dealing with the aftermath of the thefts, which highlighted internal […]
India’s poor risk loss of privacy, land in drive to digitise records
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A push to digitise land records in India to establish ownership and minimise conflicts has raised concerns over privacy for poorer communities and could make them more vulnerable to evictions, legal and technology experts said on Monday. India’s national land record modernisation program seeks to re-survey lands, verify and upgrade […]
In the US, Boston’s Catholic archdiocese expands effort to digitise archives
Boston, USRNS When Thomas Lester began his job as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston’s archivist in 2014, he quickly noticed that many of the archdiocese’s bound archives containing centuries of records of sacraments performed by its clergy were beginning to fall apart. “It was very obvious right from the beginning that these thousands of […]