{"id":137205,"date":"2018-09-17T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/wikipedia-is-trying-to-virtually-preserve-brazils-lost-heritage.html"},"modified":"2018-09-17T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:57:11","slug":"wikipedia-is-trying-to-virtually-preserve-brazils-lost-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/wikipedia-is-trying-to-virtually-preserve-brazils-lost-heritage.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia is trying to virtually preserve Brazil&#039;s lost heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire at the Brazil National Museum was a horrifying tragedy. The museum contained tremendous amounts of South American heritage items, but also antiquities from around the world. <\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is trying to collect as much visual information about these items as possible, so that scholars can associate the information they have about them, and so restore, in a virtual sense, that element of humanity&#39;s legacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/556959\/wikipedia-digitally-preserving-items-destroyed-brazil-national-museum-fire'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/oCFtiMgDtwCjQG5LT9ZDgKLgz7FD1oFtZSOoC_4nl1cj_QG87GxsirSNarEsClk2qNnAxGITeCt1h7ih21LWRWFgG3K2wnXwTjLNCOz-lS7hq-PVQ5zNHCFMiSWeJS-RT7OjC3Ykn5tMoI_Nv8_opPldAw1kclhMTmiyYoJS1WCyax89ISEo-HMOzg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/556959\/wikipedia-digitally-preserving-items-destroyed-brazil-national-museum-fire'>Wikipedia Is Digitally &#8216;Preserving&#8217; Items Destroyed in the Brazil National Museum Fire<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nUp to 20 million artifacts were lost.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ECYU2Mt72eu'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire at the Brazil National Museum was a horrifying tragedy. The museum contained tremendous amounts of South American heritage items, but also antiquities from around the world. Wikipedia is trying to collect as much visual information about these items as possible, so that scholars can associate the information they have about them, and so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/wikipedia-is-trying-to-virtually-preserve-brazils-lost-heritage.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wikipedia is trying to virtually preserve Brazil&#039;s lost heritage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6966,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/22\/some_good_news.html","url_meta":{"origin":137205,"position":0},"title":"Some good news from Afghanistan","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Nov-04 3:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Taliban weren't as thorough at \"sanitizing\" Afghanistan's heritage as folks feared. 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