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Open-source tool maps 100k displaced artifacts from museums worldwide
Ex Situ is an open-source spatial index that maps over 100,000 cultural artifacts from 8 museum collections to their origin sites. Built with Next.js, Deck.gl, and Strapi, it provides provenance data downloads for researchers. The project is AGPL-3.0 licensed and seeks community contributions.
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A clever technical solution for provenance research, but its impact depends on adoption by institutions and researchers beyond the initial eight collections.
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