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IITH plans digital preservation project
The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is planning to kick off its digital heritage preservation project with the city’s Golconda Fort, one of the most famous and the biggest fortresses in the Deccan Plateau.
The project will kick-start with digitalisation of the historic Golconda Fort
Hyderabad: The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is planning to kick off its digital heritage preservation project with the city’s Golconda Fort, one of the most famous and the biggest fortresses in the Deccan Plateau.
According to its Director Prof U B Desai, IITH has received funding from the Union HRD Ministry to start a design innovation centre, which would be spearheaded by the Design Department but also involve faculty from all other departments.
This is a hub and spoke collaborative centre, with IITH being the hub and International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad), IIIT Chittoor and Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram being the spoke.
One of the major activities is digital heritage preservation. “Funding is approximately Rs 10 crore,” Desai told a news agency here on Wednesday. He said the plan was to start the initiative with digital preservation of Golconda fort here within a year.
“Currently, we are in the process of getting all required infrastructure ready like various cameras, laser scanners and software which can stitch things together in a nice and flamboyant manner,” Desai said. “Today we have technology for digitally preserving things.
The idea is to complete digital preservation of couple of heritage sites on a pilot basis and demonstrate that ‘we can do it’,” he said, adding that thereafter the country could take forward such an activity to cover many more heritage sites.
Desai underlined the need to preserve heritage sites, noting that things like natural calamities and extreme heat had the potential to damage them. Digitisation ensures that these sites are preserved ‘forever’.
Noting that the people in the West had done it (preservation of heritage sites), he explained about such an initiative done on ‘Statue of David’ by Stanford University, and ‘Rani Ki Vav’ in Gujarat by a foreign team.
The whole idea is to create an ‘experiential feeling’ so that anybody with internet access can take a tour of the site which has been digitally preserved, according to Desai.
