Peter Herdrich and Katie Paul of the Antiquities Coalition examine how by providing inventories, cataloguing and documenting objects, and digitizing records, the DLME directly supports the worldwide effort to combat looting and the illicit trade in cultural heritage objects and pushes back against the forces that would plunder our culture to finance terror and oppress people.
http://stories.dlme.clir.org/the-dlme-and-cultural-heritage-preservation/