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“A tool that is part of the Digital Agenda for Culture”: García Cepeda
Presentation of the platform Museums of Mexico bringing together the work of seven emblematic venues
May 16, 2018The platform Museums of México was presented on Wednesday, May 16 as part of the Digital Agenda for Culture coordinated by the Department of Culture and makes available to the public more than 115,000 digital records from seven museums in Mexico.
The presentation was held at the National Museum of San Carlos. The Secretary of Culture, María Cristina García Cepeda, said that with digital information and communication technologies, new figures, media and platforms for dissemination and creation are emerging, which place us in a broad collective and inclusive horizon.
In this first stage, Museums of Mexico is made up of the collections of the National Museum of San Carlos, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Printing, the National Museum of Anthropology, the National Museum of History, the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, and the National Museum of Popular Cultures, which have renovated web pages, windows to the digital world that are at the level of its physical collections and the symbolic value of each site.
María Cristina García Cepeda pointed out that this is a digital tool that forms part of the Digital Agenda of Culture and the Digital Repository of Mexico's Cultural Heritage that will integrate this platform, as well as the Mediateca and the Musiteca, collections that will be brought together in the digital space and will establish communication links between themselves and also with researchers and international specialists, to make it possible to learn about and enjoy this heritage worldwide.
Museums of Mexico aims to make available to the public the digitized cultural heritage of paradigmatic museums of Mexico, through a practical and intuitive web platform, focused on the collection of these museums and users. This is one of the strategic digital projects of this administration, and is framed by the recently published Digital Agenda for Culture, through its "sectoral coordination" and "preservation, research and dissemination of culture" areas.
The seven websites are developed under solid digital collection operators that will allow museum professionals to sustainably manage the collections, optimizing the work of preserving and disseminating these collections.
This effort is characterized by universalizing knowledge about cultural heritage, expanding and extending physical visits to these sites, and the use of international standards for interoperability. In addition, all generated code will be available free of charge.
Also present at the ceremony, presided over by the Secretary of Culture, María Cristina García Cepeda, were: Lidia Camacho, General Director of the National Institute of Fine Arts; Diego Prieto, General Director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History; Alejandro Salafranca, General Director of Information and Communication Technologies of the Department of Culture; Jacinto Chacha, General Director of Popular, Indigenous and Urban Cultures of the Department of Culture and Miguel Alemán, President of the Board of the National Museum of San Carlos.
Lidia Camacho said that this project is a response to the hyper-connectivity that the current world is experiencing as a source of diffusion and information and that is why museums must consolidate its presence among more people through this tool and to build new cultural bridges with the world.
Diego Prieto explained that the right of cultural access is strengthened with this dissemination platform that will allow the public to visit three innovative web pages of the INAH and others of the National Museum of Anthropology and the National Museum of History of Chapultepec Castle, all of this to enrich with updated information about its collections that will add to the physical visit additional information about the curatorship, activities and background of the pieces.
Jacinto Chacha said that the eyes of the world could focus on this window to appreciate more closely the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of our country, as well as in Japan, Africa or any country where there is interest in our cultural diversity.
Alejandro Salafranca said that the Museums of Mexico seeks to democratize access to the collections of the most important museums in our nation that had not been digitally structured and thus opens the way to discover seven fundamental collections through digital windows, so the seven systems will converge in the Cultural Repository of Mexico's Heritage with tens of thousands of objects that today account for a great and new impetus to the Digital Agenda for Culture
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