MIHA BOX

Building the Archive Digitization Laboratory and the Role of MIHA BOX

Creating an archive digitization laboratory is both a design and assembly endeavor. The resulting entity is a kind of living organism that controls, coordinates, and corrects the actions and outcomes of scanners, computers, software, algorithms, and operators. The central machine in this intricate and delicate process, both the heart and brain of digitization projects, is the result of technological and experiential evolution and is called MIHA BOX.

MIHA BOX is the technological core of Made In Heritage and is the evolutionary transformation of the Time Machine Box, an original technology developed by #mind@ware, a founding partner of the Made In Heritage network and certified by The Time Machine Organisation (TMO), the leading international organization for cooperation in technology, science, and cultural heritage born from the European project Time Machine (https://www.timemachine.eu/).

MIHA BOX offers efficient management of processes and metadata, preservation and development of documentary assets, image sharing, and storage and backup of digitized data. In summary, MIHA BOX represents an extraordinary opportunity for institutions and businesses to implement an integrated, ready-to-use technology system, simplifying the use of complex tools such as algorithms, scanners, digital libraries, workflow management, and OPAC. This makes traditional historical archive digitization processes more accessible and less costly to manage.