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AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2015230periods and places in the world, some of them never exhibited, have been included in this initial phase of the project.In December 2014, Tate uploaded 6,000 pieces from its archives for online viewing,38 and expects to have digitised all its archive entries by the summer of 2015. The institution’s archive contains more than a million objects including notebooks, diaries, images, sketches and others by world famous artists, and it is therefore of particular interest to researchers, and to lovers of artists’ biographies.Lacma, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has some 80,000 online images from its collec- tion, which combine free and restricted access and are ordered by curatorial terms (“American art”). What is more, it is possible to carry out chronological searches or searches by objects on show in the institution at the time of viewing.The Museum of New Zealand recently made 30,000 images available to the public, 14,000 of them under a Creative Commons licence with restrictions for commercial use and the 17,000 remaining images for any use as they are not protected by copyright.The British Imperial War Museums are a very interesting case, as they have put more than 60,000 files online, including photographs, audios, videos and documents.The New Mexico Digital Collection brings together in a single search portal photographs, audios, maps, books and all the digitised hold- ings of libraries, museums and cultural centres all over the state. Searches are easily made bychoosing the type of file (for example photogra- phy) and selecting the collection you are inter- ested in exploring.Website New Mexico Digital CollectionsThe Vatican Library is using the state-of-the-art resources to digitise its documents. Up until now it had uploaded 500 manuscripts and 600 incunabula stored with FITS, a programme developed by NASA. It has now entered intoan association with the Japanese technology firm NTT Data to digitise a further 3,000 manuscripts until 2018. These archives will be available in high resolution using NTT’s Amlad technology, which allows very high quality viewing on various kinds of devices.The Wellcome Collection in London, which belongs to the Wellcome Trust, has uploadedFocus 2015. Museums and New Technologies