Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation and Promotion of Indian Art, Culture and Heritage

The Ministry of Culture has initiated various technological measures for the digital preservation of India's cultural heritage, including the digitization of manuscripts, artifacts, and audio-visual documentation. Key projects include the documentation of over 118,000 antiquities by the Archaeological Survey of India, the digitization of 350,000 manuscripts

Digital Preservation of Artefacts and Monuments in Karnataka

The National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) has documented 904 antiquities and 312 built heritage sites in Karnataka. Workshops are being conducted to train various organizations in documentation efforts. The government is also working on repatriating illegally exported antiquities, with 655 items retrieved since 1976. Expenditures for the preservation