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JATAN

July 23, 2019

The Minister of Culture informed Lok Sabha about the JATAN: Virtual Museum software.

About: 

  • Full name: “JATAN: Virtual Museum Builder.” 

  • What is it? JATAN is a Virtual Museum software which is used for creating the digital collections in various museums and digital archival tools that are used in background for managing the National Portal and Digital Repository for Indian Museums. 

  • Bodies involved: It has been developed and hosted by Human Centres Design and Computing (HCDC) Group, C-DAC, Pune, as per the agreement with Ministry of Culture, Government of India. 

  • Present status: There are 48 Archaeological Site Museums under Archaeological Survey of India out of which two Archaeological Site Museums, namely - Velha Goa; and Nagarjunakonda, have been digitised during the first phase through JATAN. 

Source : PIB

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