{"id":710543,"date":"2021-12-08T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=710543"},"modified":"2021-12-08T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:02:00","slug":"digitizing-the-natural-history-museum-londons-entire-collection-could-contribute-over-2-billion-to-the-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=710543","title":{"rendered":"Digitizing the Natural History Museum London&#039;s entire collection could contribute over \u00a32 billion to the global economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0societal\u00a0benefits of digitizing natural history collections\u00a0extends\u00a0to\u00a0global advancements in\u00a0food security, biodiversity conservation,\u00a0medicine\u00a0discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitizing natural history museum collections could\u00a0also\u00a0result in a tenfold return. The Natural History Museum, London, has so far made over 4.9 million digitized specimens available freely online\u00a0&#8211; over 28 billion records have been downloaded over\u00a0429,000 download events over\u00a0the past six years.\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-12-digitizing-natural-history-museum-london.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Digitizing the Natural History Museum London&#8217;s entire collection could contribute over \u00a32 billion to the global economy<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0societal\u00a0benefits of digitizing natural history collections\u00a0extends\u00a0to\u00a0global advancements in\u00a0food security, biodiversity conservation,\u00a0medicine\u00a0discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitizing natural history museum collections could\u00a0also\u00a0result in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}