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City Hall is pressing ahead with a sweeping audit of its visual identity archives, but the toughest calls on what stays, what goes, and who decides are still ahead.
City administrators must now choose how, where, and at what cost to replace duplicated artworks and imagery in Brussels' public spaces — and the clock is ticking.
From Ixelles to Molenbeek, community members say the same outdated photos keep appearing across official Brussels platforms, eroding trust in local communications.
City archivists and municipal web teams have spent the past week quietly overhauling how Brussels documents itself — pulling thousands of repeated photographs from public-facing databases and replacing them with verified, original imagery.
A growing backlog of redundant photographs and scanned documents is straining storage budgets and slowing public access across the capital's cultural institutions.
A decade of piecemeal digital commissioning left city websites riddled with duplicate and placeholder imagery; here is how that happened.
A sprawling digitisation push across multiple city administrations created a hidden data mess that archivists are now scrambling to untangle.
A sweeping audit of the capital's municipal image databases has exposed widespread duplication across three major public collections, forcing administrators to rethink how Brussels manages its visual memory.
A quiet data crisis is costing the Brussels-Capital Region thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of euros as duplicate photographs clog municipal and cultural databases.
Years of fragmented digital record-keeping across Brussels' communes have left the city's public archives riddled with duplicate images — and officials are only now beginning to confront the mess.
A quiet but consequential overhaul of the city's public imagery databases is reshaping how residents find services, navigate neighbourhoods, and trust official communications.
City officials and experts weigh in on the impact of duplicate image replacement on local businesses and residents
City officials and experts weigh in on the impact of duplicate image replacement on local businesses and residents
A city-wide audit of municipal digital photo libraries reveals that redundant image files are consuming storage budgets, slowing systems, and demanding urgent action from Ixelles to Laeken.
As the capital's open-data infrastructure expands, experts warn that thousands of redundant photographs are distorting planning records and costing public money.
City administrators and cultural bodies face a critical fork in the road over how to clean up a flawed digital inventory that has left dozens of murals, statues and heritage photographs double-counted for years.
A look into the history and current state of duplicate images in Brussels, and what it means for the city's residents and visitors.
A quiet data quality crisis in the capital's public image databases is slowing planning applications, distorting heritage records, and frustrating the community groups that rely on them most.