Venice ‘time machine’ project suspended amid data row

[PHDNM]

Venice ‘time machine’ project suspended amid data row

Disagreements among international partners leave plans to digitize the Italian city’s history in limbo.

Oct 25, 2019

Like the city itself, an ambitious effort to digitize ten centuries’ worth of documents that record the history of Venice is at risk of sinking. Two key partners have suspended the Venice Time Machine project after reaching an impasse over issues surrounding open data and methodology. The State Archive of Venice and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) say they have had to pause data collection, and the archive’s director has raised questions about the usability of the 8 terabytes of information that have already been collected.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03240-w

[The Lawspeaker]

Bloody idiots. Start fighting about it all later: get the job done.