PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VI)/82-89/11

AUTHOR :  VirendraKumar Gautam and Sikandar Kumar

TITLE: DIGITAL PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN INDIA: A SURVEY

ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this paper is to identify different types of cultural information archives in Indian museums and analysis of the content of selected Indian Museums’ websites. The paper presents a summary of various object type cultural heritages archive in digital form. There are five museums which are located in metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata. The name of these museums are described as Indian Museum, Kolkata, National Galleries of Modern Art, Mumbai, National Galleries of Modern Art, New Delhi, National Museum, New Delhi, and Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. The total number of objects type collection in all selected museums is 34979. The data were collected from Indian museums web portals. Indian Museum, Kolkata has total 13795 object type collection. The maximum object type collection is available in the Indian Museum, Kolkata (39.44%) and minimum National Galleries of Modern Art Mumbai (4.17%). Indian Museum, Kolkata having plentiful collection of the objects type archive.

KEYWORDS:Cultural Heritage; Indian Museums; Digital Preservation.

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