‘Digital Heritage Portal’
In News –
- State to develop ‘Digital Heritage Portal’ to preserve cultural legacy.
‘Digital Heritage Portal’:
- Vision : Karnataka is to become a national leader in digital heritage preservation with a proposal to create a unified Karnataka Digital Heritage Portal .
- Role : it will integrate manuscripts, rare printed works, archival records and other cultural resources on a single platform.
- Launched by : The initiative, led jointly by the Oriental Research Institute (ORI), Mysuru, and the Karnataka State Archives.
- It aligns with the Union government’s Digital India Mission and the National Mission for Manuscripts.
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Did you know? ● The Oriental Research Institute (ORI), Mysuru houses more than 70,000 manuscripts and 45,000 rare printed works, including the Arthashastra, Aryabhatiya, Natya Shastra and Sritattvanidhi. ● Digitisation projects worth over ₹2.15 crore, undertaken with the Bengaluru Mythic Society and Save Our Country Foundation ● Note – Bengaluru mythic society established in 1909 ( asked in psi 402) |
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