MuseDoc
Screen to search for artifacts
Virtual walkthrough of the museum
| Recording and preserving huge data on paper for a long period of time is a tough job. Protecting the papers from rotting and storing the huge amount that gets collected over a number of years is a problem. It also becomes difficult to find old data. Similar is the case with the museums in India who store data about artifacts on paper in the form of cataloguing cards with one card for each artifact. Cataloguing in this fashion is a tedious time and effort-consuming task. CRCS has created a Museum Documentation Tool to computerize and ease the data storage and retrieval system. |
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Just like most of the new ideas, the suggestion for introducing digital documentation in museums also faced resistance. This was because even though digital documentation is superior to paper documentation, it had not been used for such purposes before. CRCS took up the challenge of convincing the museum officials about the usefulness of digital documentation and developed and showed some demo applications to various museum authorities. Once awareness was built, we created two prototypes for one of the museums at the Red Fort, Delhi. The first prototype called the Museum Documentation Tool enables the museum curator to add and modify information about various artifacts into a multimedia database that can store pictures, video, and voice in addition to text. The research scholars can then access this database. The second prototype is a virtual walk-through of the museum. This walk-through picks up information from the same database. The walk-through takes a user through the various galleries of the museum. A user can take a close look at any of the artifact he or she wishes to. This walk-through can be placed in an information kiosk at various strategic locations in the city. Tourists can take a glimpse of the objects and come to the museum to see the real pieces. |
| For more details contact: Sanjay Gupta |