Working with digitized Mongolian

Cultural Heritage

Battushig NamsraidorjInstitute of Informatics, MASUlaanbaatar 51 Mongolia

DIGITIZATION PROJECTS & ORGANIZATIONS

COMPETENCE CENTER FOR THE DIGITIZATION

OF MONGOLIAN HERITAGE (MAS)

COMMON PROBLEMS

FUTURE GOALS & COOPERATION

Presentation outline

Three main cultural heritage digitization

projects are currently in progress in Mongolia

Mongolian Academy of Sciences

RESEARCHTECHNOLOGY

BOOKS

National Library of Mongolia

BOOKSMANUSCRIPTS

MAPS

Center of Cultural Heritage

MUSEUMSARCHAELOGY

PALEONTOLOGYARTIFACTS

National Library of Mongolia

Over 1,000,000 books

Asian Classics Input Project

Since 2005

186140 books digitized

(18.6%)

3,4 terabyte size (6 HDD)

www.nationallibrary.mn

2 OPERATORS SHOOT 400-600 PAGES DAILY.

Input center at the National Library of Mongolia

ACIP project activities at the NLM

Year Volumes Digitized books

20051788

14063

2006 16137

2007 41300

2008 2800 49701

2009 1926 34004

2010 1697 30935

Total 8211 186140

In 2005, the “Digitization project for the national cultural heritage information”

was approved by Mongolian Government.

Center of Cultural Heritage

www.monheritage.mn

National database of the

cultural heritage

2007 – 2015

35 organizations (museums,)

Each has a Canon 400D

digital camera, mini studio

26 438 artifacts digitized

Registration, catalogue

Mongolian Academy of Sciences

MAX PLANCK SOCIETY

November 2010

Competence center for the

digitization of cultural heritage

RESEARCH(scientific description)

TECHNOLOGY (ECHO)

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Cultural heritage resources at the MAS

INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE

1100 tod

1000 mongol

8000 tibetan

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

ARCHAEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY

Competence Center at the MAS: What we did

We chose 12 books and digitized over 1500

pages according to the following criteria:

science related, researcher, ownership

Judrem by Jalkhanz khutaktu Damdinbazar 1923, 618 pages

A detailed description of which traditions of Buddhism were transmitted to Mongolia and who transferred them through India, Pakistan, Uighur and Tibet, also how Mongolians had been passing them down until the early 1920’s.

What we did: Virtual museum & Exhibition

EXHIBITIONS ARE USUALLY

ONE-TIME EVENTS

Mongolians are celebrating 100th

Anniversary of Enthronement of the

VIII Bogd Khan this year. A series of 12

exhibitions will be held in the Winter

Palace of the Bogd Khan.

“Costumes of the Bogd Khan” exhibition : 2011.02.07-16

Common problems

TECHNOLOGY RELATED

OPEN ACCESS & LEGAL ISSUES

Technology related problems

Even though National Library of

Mongolia digitized a lot of cultural

heritage books, there is no digital

library system installed for the books.

The ACIP project has stalled and it

needs to be renewed in 2011

Technology related problems

NEED FOR AN ACCESSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE

ELECTRONIC WORKING ENVIRONMENT

A better technology for digitizing large scale

maps and cotton arts

HOW TO READ DAMAGED BOOKS

3D SCANNER – digitization of artifacts

FISHEYE LENS – virtual museums

UNIQUE AND VALUABLE OBJECTS

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

OPEN-ACCESS

organizations - to make a catalogue first

scholars - to get their researches published

Legal problems

National Library of Mongolia

Mongolian Academy of Sciences

RESEARCH&

TECHNOLOGY

CATALOGUING

CATALOGUING

Scientific descriptionScientific description

Current and future cooperation

3D models, virtual museums

3D models, virtual museumsDigitizing big flat items:

maps, cotton artsDigitizing big flat items:

maps, cotton arts

SEARCH TECHNOLOGY

SEARCH TECHNOLOGY

Center of Cultural Heritage

Max-Planck Society

National Library of Mongolia

Other cultural heritage sources

Conclusion

If we help people with better technology in the

digitization of cultural heritage they should

understand its importance and

conveniences therefore

more and more

resources would become

openly accessible for everyone in need.