"ELAR" equipped "The state museum of history of GULAG" with the equipment on the basis of RFID technologies

2017

On December 19, 2017 ELAR corporation announced equipment by the equipment on the basis of RFID technologies in Scientific library of the Museum of history of GULAG.

In scientific library of the museum of GULAG 10,000 RFID tags for marking of library stock and the station of programming, i.e. actually a system for record and mark sensing are delivered. After the tag is pasted on the edition, the book is put on the station which reads out information, and the RFID tag becomes attached to record in a library system. Thus, synchronization of data on the book and the edition is provided. A system allows to control location of editions, quickly to look for them and to automatically control movement from storage to the reading room, on issue, etc. According to the head of department Scientific library of the Museum of history of GULAG Alexey Mironov, complex use of RFID technologies will accelerate process of issue of books to readers of Scientific library and also will allow to automate accounting functions.

ELAR corporation also developed and made electronic library cards for identification and the automated service of users of library.

2015

December 3, 2015. ELAR corporation announced the project of digitization of objects of a meeting from the State museum of history of GULAG.

Specialists of ELAR corporation transferred to an electronic form 42 works of graphics of the Russian authors on repressions from collections of the museum. Objects have a large format and are created in different technicians (an etching, sanguine, coal, a watercolor, the drawing). Scans are saved with quality, necessary for printing. Objects were scanned in the color mode on the Pauerskan ELAR contactless scanner.

Forces of ELAR scan also the manuscript of 1934 on 278 sheets - a historical archeological site of the Solovetsky islands. The manuscript is written simple, violet and black by pencils on writing-book squared paper sheets. It contains the numerous pencil and watercolor drawings executed on turnovers of diplomas, the writing paper, a tracing-paper, dense paper, writing-book sheets and double writing-book squared paper sheets.

The digital format of the most rare museum materials allowed to provide to them broader access for audience at the expense of reprint editions, the organization of exposures, representatives of the company integrator reported TAdviser.

"Our cooperation with ELAR continues the third year. Thanks to it we could digitize unique objects of our collection, - the chief keeper of State budgetary institution of culture of the city of Moscow "The state museum of history of GULAG" Natalia Karpukhina tells. - For example, an album with 326 original photos of the Solovki camps of the period of 1923-1936. The photos provided in an album belong to the period of foundation in 1923 of the Solovki Camp of Special Function (SCSF), and have the high sociocultural and historical importance both for a research of a subject of repressions, and for subject studying of life and the culture of camp life. Uniqueness of this artifact also that it is created directly in the territory of the Solovki camps belonged to one of heads of the ELEPHANT and it was stored in the headquarters of the camp. The album offers deep prospect for scientific research of history of the Solovki camps, for visitors – an opportunity to see living conditions, back-breaking toil of prisoners, to feel all burden of their bondage and hopelessness, to make out real persons of prisoners and "look in eyes to" the people who suffered from repressions".

"Works on digitization of many objects from the State museum of history of GULAG safety of monuments, incredibly difficult because of a status. The torn and dropping out sheets, the old paper, deformation of a basis of documents, numerous inserts and inserts - all this required extra care and accuracy at digitization, - the leading expert of ELAR corporation on work with cultural institutions Evgeny Mokeev comments. - However the long-term experience of cooperation with the Russian museums, technologies and a professional equipment allow us to create high-quality digital copies of works".