Digital inventory

The digital inventory is based on the development of capacities to facilitate the digitalization of the ecomuseum´s collections using cell phones and other low-cost technologies, maintaining criterious schemes for managing the digitalization and for the online diffusion of collections.The definition of criteria to categorize collections is based on key aspects of local heritage, and the new technologies have been opening convenient possibilities for the digitalization and diffusion of collections maintaining high standards of quality.

In the last decades, the presence of museums in the digital world was limited to institutions with availability of huge financial and technical resources. The equipments necessary to digitalize collections used to be expensive, as there was a need of establishing and maintaining high standard tools and laboratories. Nowadays, the propagation of smartphones is facilitating this process, as the personal devices have high quality cameras sufficient to capture good images for digitalizing collections.

It is necessary to define criteria and maintain certain standards in the digitalization process, aiming to have the proper flow for democratizing collections. In this sense, the digital inventory is a proper tool for the ecomuseums, considering each context and availability of resources. A well-defined workflow, with proper criteria, can contribute to more democratic ecomuseums with open access collections.