Expanding the field of applied research of CAD / CAM / CAE technologies through ethnographic museology

Abstract

Russian regional studies on the frontier of technical and humanitarian sciences demonstrate specific directions of digitalization of the ethnographic museum space. The need for improving the socio-cultural environment in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, solving IT problems of local museums, processing significant amounts of ethnocultural information determine the areas of joint - engineering and ethnographic - scientific research. The experience of these works at Vyatka State University has been gained in recent decades. The sources for such scientific activity are the collections of ethnographic expeditions of the university since 2003. They include material and written sources. There are ethnographic and engineering (digital) data processing methods, specific museum work techniques among the research methods. Specific areas are the digital presentation of specific ethnographic objects, the development of virtual expositions and exhibitions, the creation of a virtual ethnographic museum / scansen, the study of electronic “feedback” with visitors, the creation of an ethnographic data bank for funds. The article provides a specific set of software products. Elements of specific algorithms for applying the IT product for the main types of museum activity — scientific research, exposition, stock work, and contacts with visitors — are shown. The practical value of the considered joint border scientific research for modern regional communities is obvious. The beneficiaries of the results are the student and teaching communities in universities, the fields of culture, education, tourism, civil society, and law enforcement agencies. A special effect of cyber ethnography is the remote use of ethnocultural heritage in museums.