Author: Maria Christakou

Bolshoi Theatre director Lidia Kharina tells Computerworld UK the data will help the museum provide the capacity, reliability and accessibility of its archival needs. The Bolshoi Theatre Museum has completed a major project to digitise a range of historical documents, with the aim of making the information publicly accessible and searchable via its website. Four thousand volunteers helped scan 8,000 historic posters, 120,000 programmes and 100,000 rare photographs from the 192-year-old Russian theatre’s museum archives, in order to convert them into digital formats.  “The three key objectives of the project are to rediscover, preserve and share the Bolshoi Theatre’s history, as...