Significance of Digitization of the Cultural Heritage

Abstract

The digitization of cultural heritage in museums, archives, and libraries is the most important aspect of the digital era. The preservation of cultural heritage is the most important function of the museums, archives, and libraries, so that it can be transmitted to the future generation. The digital materials gathered for multiple storage systems including offsite storage, cloud storage, and so on are necessary to save it from the disasters like floods, fire, earthquakes, tsunami, natural aging, and other factors of deterioration. Digitization is imperative for the modernization and application of all types of technological advancements in various institutions. There are numerous software, hardware, tools, and techniques available for digitization which are described in detail as follows. The information about digitization has been compiled by literature survey and details of the same have been given in the references.