New Delhi, July 22: While giving information on digitization of archaeological museum in Lok Sabha, MoS for Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel said, “The National Portal and Digital Repository for Indian Museums is developed and hosted by Human Centres Design and Computing Group, C-DAC, Pune, as per the agreement with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.”
Human Centres Design and Computing Group, being technical expertise, developed JATAN: Virtual Museum software which is used for creating the digital collections in various museums and digital archival tools that are used in the background for managing the National Portal and Digital Repository for Indian Museums.
There are 48 (forty-eight) Archaeological Site Museums under Archaeological Survey of India out of which two Archaeological Site Museums, namely - Velha Goa; and Nagarjunakonda, have been digitized during the first phase through JATAN: Virtual Museum software and the data has been uploaded in public domain through National Portal and Digital Repository for Indian Museums. The portal works through the website - http://museumsofindia.gov.in/ wherein all the digitised data on museums have been up-loaded for on-line viewing. Digitisation in rest of the 46 (forty-six) archaeological museums through multi-user JATAN software is being done in phase-wise manner.