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Vikas Bhi, Virasat Bhi: How JATAN, AI and Digital Archives are revolutionising India’s cultural heritage preservation
['Vivek Kumar']
Organiser
The National Museum alone holds over 2 lakh artefacts, of which more than a lakh are already available online.
That is not incremental progress; it is a near-complete digital mirror of some of India’s most significant cultural collections, built and made publicly accessible within a few years.
Gyan Bharatam and the Revival of Manuscript HeritageWhere JATAN handles museum objects, the Gyan Bharatam Mission tackles a parallel and arguably even more urgent challenge: India’s vast, fragile and dispersed manuscript heritage.
Through the National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA), the ASI has undertaken digital documentation of antiquities and built heritage sites nationwide.
Culture as Digital Public InfrastructureTaken together, these initiatives reveal something more ambitious than a set of disconnected digitisation projects.