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Multimedia for Science Museums in Indian Languages
| Title | Multimedia for Science Museums in Indian Languages |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2003 |
| Authors | Attavar, S. |
| Secondary Title | International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting: Proceedings from ichim03 |
| Publisher | Archives & Museum Informatics |
| Place Published | École du Louvre, Paris, France |
| Editor | Perrot,(d. 2007), X. |
| Keywords | ichim, ichim03, Indian languages, Leap Office, multimedia, Satellite Orbits |
| Abstract | Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, one of the units of National Council of Science Museums under the Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Govt. of India is located at Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The primary aim of the museum is to popularise science among students and general public through nonformal education. The museum has six permanent exhibition halls and a Dinosaur corner. Visitors from all over India and the world visit the museum. The exhibition hall on “SPACE-Emerging Technology in the service of mankind” set up in an area of 7000 sq.feet was thrown open to the public on June 19th 1999.In this exhibition hall different multimedia software related to Space Science are displayed in English and in Indian languages. The paper examines the necessity of development of multimedia in Indian languages in order to spread the benefits of information technology to the rural people also. A case study of the multimedia titled “Satellite Orbits” in the exhibit ”Mission Control Center” of the Space Gallery of the museum developed in three languages (Kannada,Hindi & English) has been discussed in detail. |
| URL | http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/ichim03/112i.pdf |