CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The app, experts say, can be useful in showcasing India’s rich history, heritage, rare paintings, antiquities and archaeological remains among others. Earlier, C-DAC had developed the JATAN virtual museum platform which permitted tourists, historians and students to access various museums online.

Detailed explanation-2: -HCDC Group has also developed JATAN: 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 digital repository of museums.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dinesh Katre, Senior Director at C-DAC initiated the development of e-curator software named as JATAN (): Virtual Museum Builder in 2001, which was developed and released in 2004.

Detailed explanation-4: -Launching on September 4, VOMA, or the Virtual Online Museum of Art, is billed as the world’s first fully interactive virtual museum, boasting classic and contemporary works from across the globe, all free to view.

Detailed explanation-5: -virtual museum, a collection of digitally recorded images, sound files, text documents, and other data of historical, scientific, or cultural interest that are accessed through electronic media.