The British museum completely will digitize the collection

The five-year project is estimated at $12 million. The British museum declared plans of full digitization of the collection. It has to increase availability of meeting to public and transparency of its drawing up. Such decision is made after scandal with stealing from store rooms museums about 2000 subjects. Scandal led to dismissal the former director Khartvig Fisher and to appointment of the interim director Jones Mark. After that museum opened on the site the section for tracking of missing of subjects. It is supposed that implementation of the project of digitization will take five years. It includes plans for access expansion to...