cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/4311794
Archived version: https://archive.ph/nnhGW
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231019004015/https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-museum-digitise-its-entire-collection-after-theft-incident-2023-10-18/
I think they just mean digitise the catalogue not scan the artefacts - they realised it was very difficult to find out what they actually had, making it difficult to figure out what was taken.