English subtitles for clip: File:More Real than Reality Itself, the Royal Armoury, Skokloster Castle and the Hallwyl Museum.webm

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The royal armory, Skokloster Castle and the Hallwyl Museum, constitute a museum agency in Sweden.

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We tell the stories of the highest society and the upper classes

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from the seventeenth century to today.

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Two of the museums, the house museums with hundreds of rooms, and the collection within the museum.

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We have great collections of fine art, rare books, dresses, weapons, and armories.

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My name is Karin Nilsson, and I'm head of the department of digital resources.

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We do have a lot of visitors to the museums, but we also know that most people in the world will never make it to the museums in Stockholm. 

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So, how can we reach the world with all the stories we have in the collection?

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Our goal is to digitize the entire collection quickly, within ten years, with a very small funding.

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It means that we photograph as many objects as once as we can, like a hundred rifles in one day.

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But at the same time, we produce images of the highest quality we're able to.

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Because otherwise, no one will use it. 

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We make everything accessible online as soon as possible 

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on our website, on Skoklostersslott, in digital exhibitions, on Europeana.

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If you'd like to use some of the objects yourself, you may 3D print, for example, this shield  

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that used to belong to a former Swedish king in the sixteenth century.

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On this model, you're able to see details you will never be able to see in the space of the museum.

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The digital object can actually be more real than reality.

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Everything we do, we do for the benefit of society.

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All the data we have in our systems, all of the images in the collection, are licensed with open licenses, and

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everyone can use them, free of charge.  

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The result is increased possibilities, for the use and reuse of our material, for example, for children  

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preparing schoolwork, for innovators building applications, or

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for researchers who can study objects closely through high resolution images.

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All of the images are also availiable on Wikimedia Commons in the highest quality possible.

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We do big exports of data from the collection management system,

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so the images can be not only accessible, but truly useful.

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Just in a few months, over three million people used the images, and thousands of article on Wikipedia, in a lot of different languages, use images from our collection.

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We want to keep our digital collection open, like when we restore paintings, and we show what the painting really looks like beneath the surface.

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This is a preservation of a famous painting, called A Librarian by Arcimboldo.

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It is located in Skokloster Castle.

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On these pictures, you can experience what the painting looked like before, during, and after the preservation. 

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Underneath some example of the process you can only get this close to in the digital world.

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The result is now displayed in the digital exhibition, where people all over the world can be amazed at the details.

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When digitization in the museums is well performed, it's more real than reality itself. 

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In the space of the physical museums, small rings are barely visible.

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Fragile books and paintings can be browsed or displayed, but we still have to make these collections available to the public.      

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In recent years, we have made the digitization of the collections more efficient, but we have also improved the quality of the digitization.

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We hope that people around the world will benefit from our work.