As part of the projects co-financed by the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), within ‘the development of new Internet services’ category, the Museum of Yugoslav History (MYH) has initiated the "MYH on-line” project, available at www.foto.mij.rs.
The digitalisation project of the photo archive belonging to the Museum of Yugoslav History represents a cooperation of museum, archive and information experts in the aim of obtaining new ways of accessing cultural heritage. Project activities included research (material selection activities), museum archive conservation through digitalisation, development of material processing solutions and network interactive access to material displayed.
The “MYH on-line” project implies, in the shape of a universal message, the influence of photography to understanding and perceiving historical moments, and the way they are transformed from a vision of a single person (a photographer) to an image of collective memory.
Through the "MYH on-line” project, MYH photo archive digitalisation will provide all visitors of the virtual MYH with the possibility of better understanding and reexamining the relationship between photos and collective memory of events they document.
Apart from a contribution it has to the overall availability of museum material, the “MYH on-line” project also helps promote the .rs domain in scientific projects and raise the level of development of the information society in Serbia.