| Pacific Asia Museum awarded
The Pacific Asia Museum will create an electronic catalog of 1,000 significant Chinese textiles, representing more than 300 years of custom and fashion in household decorative items, costumes, and accessories. The electronic catalog will allow scholars and the general public greater access to the collection, which is rarely exhibited because of its fragile nature and the lack of exhibition space at the museum. In addition, the database will be used to develop a range of in-gallery and Web-based education programs as part of the museum's Chinese Community Initiative, a multiyear effort to involve the Chinese community more deeply in the museum's programs. The museum seeks to create a digital photography studio
in its textile collection storage area. The digitization process
will include carefully unpacking, mounting, and lighting the works
and using a high-resolution digital camera to photograph them. Once
the works are photographed, they will be repacked in archival boxes
to alleviate current crowding. The resulting digital catalog will
become part of the museum's Web site, where it can be accessed by
visitors in the museum's galleries and research library, as well
as by the pubic via the Internet. To complete the process, highlights
from the collection will form the basis for a dual-language (Mandarin/English)
Web-based education module about Chinese costumes and textiles.
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