Indian Railway has a huge list of heritage assets including
bridges, steam locos, buildings, artefacts and museums which can be showcased
for global audience. Railways will collaborate
with Google for digitizing and showcasing its heritage on digital
platforms.
Google has also agreed to partner with Railways to digitize its
heritage assets. The search engine will help create a digital repository for
universal online access free of cost, said a senior Railway Ministry official.
An agreement in this regard will be signed soon between National
Rail Museum and Google Cultural Institute (GCI). GCI is a non-profit organization that partners with
cultural organisations to bring world’s cultural heritage online.
GCI will builds online tools and offers specific to the Indian
Railways and put them online to institutions for showcasing and sharing
cultural assets. “Once these are placed online, it will act as a great tourist
attraction,” said an official from GCI, as reported in NDTV.
The official said collaboration
will not only make NRM accessible online and offer virtual tours but also help
digitise the national transporter’s entire heritage inventory which includes
more than 20 museums, hundreds of steam locos, bridges etc.
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