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Queen's Art Collection Online

Always keen to take advantage of the latest technology, the Queen has made a fascinating appointment, The Telegraph reports. She has taken on an internet pioneer to help make the Royal family's art collection available online creating a new post for Jemima Rellie, who put the Tate Gallery at the cutting edge of the online art revolution. She will be the director of publishing and new media at the Royal Collection, which contains around 200,000 works of art worth an estimated £10 billion. Last year, The Sunday Telegraph disclosed that the Queen was to relaunch her art website with the help of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. According to senior royal sources, the monarch, who celebrated her 84th birthday last week, had been "hands on" about the redesign and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh - who embraced computers and the internet well before his wife - had been equally interested. In 2008, she visited the London headquarters of Google and the previous year had launched The Royal Channel on YouTube, the video-sharing website. Rellie joins the Palace from the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, where she had worked since leaving the Tate in 2007. In 2001, she was appointed the Tate's first head of digital programmes and established the award-winning Tate Online. For full source and full article click the Headline. Irish Art