Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Digitalisation of historical and contemporary musical instruments in extended visualisations

该项目的目标是将历史和当代南亚乐器数字化--重点放在Sourindo Mohan Tagore(1840-1914加尔各答)的收藏上--以扩展的可视化和扩大的元数据结构作为发展包括音乐考古方法在内的重建研究的基础。第一步将通过3D和CT扫描的方式对S.M.泰戈尔的收藏进行数字化。此外，博物馆藏品中的其他南亚文物将以同样的方式数字化，以进行比较(约获得的数据将有助于对年表、材料特性、确定的文化用途(铜版纸、使用痕迹)、美学原则和工艺进行研究；研究通常需要在这一领域进行详细研究。在这方面将建立一个数据库作为基础--辅之以对其他欧洲和印度收藏品的补充研究--用于重建受损或被破坏的乐器，并在较小程度上进行复制。同时，这些数据将有助于为泛欧洲数据库的建设创造前提，为乐器研究的类似项目提供借鉴。

The aim of the project is the digitisation of historical and contemporary South Asian musical instruments – with a focus on the collection of Sourindo Mohan Tagore (1840 – 1914 Kolkata) – in extended visualisations and enlarged metadata structures as basis for the development of a reconstruction research including music archaeological methods.The first step will be the digitisation of S.M. Tagore’s collection by means of 3D and CT scans. Additionally other South Asian objects from the museum’s collection will be digitised in the same manner for comparison (approx. 430 instruments).The acquired data will allow studies on chronology, material properties, cultural determined applications (patina, traces of usage), aesthetical principles and craftsmanship; studies that would usually require elaborated research in the field.A database will be set up in that context as a basis – complemented by additional research in other European and Indian collections – for the reconstruction and to a smaller extent the reproduction of damaged or destroyed instruments. At the same time the data will help to create the premise for the construction of pan-European database that can serve as a model for similar projects in the research of musical instruments.