Towards a National Collection: Metadata Aggregation of Digital Cultural Heritage
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2022-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The Preserving and promoting cultural values are essential for the sustainable development of the
country, which is a complex task. In the past few decades communities have embraced digital
technologies to gather, record, and organize their collection in a systematic way to enhance its
discoverability which empowers diverse audiences worldwide. Galleries, Libraries, Archives,
Museums (GLAMs), cultural organizations, and memory institutions go beyond the physical display
and engaged in transforming the online exploration of cultural artifacts and historical archives by
harnessing innovative technologies. Cultural content in digitized form is an important resource
and providing online access to these resources enhances their visibility, which can in turn contribute
to the economic growth of the country. The potential of digital technology can also be utilized for
bringing multiple cultural heritage collections together for better visualization and accessibility.
However, standards-based and compatible technologies for the digitization process are essential
for their uniformity and interoperability so that they can eliminate the challenges associated with
discoverability and usage of resources by potential audiences. Cultural heritage aggregators are
platforms that can address the difficulties of discoverability in cultural heritage resources by enabling
search across multiple cultural heritage collections and improving access to the contents. This
study gives an overview of the various Indian initiatives to safeguard the cultural heritage assets of
the country, and its major digital initiatives in this direction, and highlights the need for an Indian
aggregator platform for a national collection of cultural heritage.
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13th International CALIBER-2022, BHU, Varanasi, UP, 17-19 November 2022
Keywords
Cultural heritage, Aggregator, Digital Heritage, Metadata