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That's not cataloguing, that's recording, and as far as I understand this is long ago done - cataloguing is those "all other details" which require expertise an

That's not cataloguing, that's recording, and as far as I understand this is long ago done - cataloguing is those "all other details" which require expertise and time; all the things like figuring out that this coin is a roman coin from 1st century, and that other coin from the same find is from another location.

NavinF 2y ago
If it's long ago done, where is the wiki with 2.4 million photos? If it's not online it might as well not exist
- ghaff 2y ago
  Museums have huge collections of many things that are not online but which researchers can access locally.
- pests 2y ago
  It might be strange to us, but a lot of the world exists outside the internet. Many people never go online or go online seldom. And that's okay.