How the Natural History Museum is Scanning 80 Million Dead Creatures
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The Natural History Museum in London has set itself the mammoth task of digitising its specimens - all 80 million of them.
The museum's collection includes everything from a blue whale skeleton to Martian meteorites, making progress understandably slow. Head of Informatics Vince Smith says it would take around 1,500 years for the team to manually digitise it all, so in 2014 they decided to write software that allows them to do it in bulk. They now use six DSLR cameras to process up to 200 items at a time.
WIRED went behind the scenes to meet the researchers working on the project and learn more about how they digitise the different specimens.
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The museum's collection includes everything from a blue whale skeleton to Martian meteorites, making progress understandably slow. Head of Informatics Vince Smith says it would take around 1,500 years for the team to manually digitise it all, so in 2014 they decided to write software that allows them to do it in bulk. They now use six DSLR cameras to process up to 200 items at a time.
WIRED went behind the scenes to meet the researchers working on the project and learn more about how they digitise the different specimens.
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Magazine: http://po.st/MagazineWired
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ABOUT WIRED
WIRED brings you the future as it happens - the people, the trends, the big ideas that will change our lives. An award-winning printed monthly and online publication. WIRED is an agenda-setting magazine offering brain food on a wide range of topics, from science, technology and business to pop-culture and politics.
How the Natural History Museum Is Scanning 80 Million Dead Creatures
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