• Research and Content
• Technology
• Multimedia
• Photography, video shooting & GPS mapping

• Total site map with dynamic time line is ready.
• Translation of 15,000 pages of select Marathi resources into english is complete.
• Identification and elucidation of 16 main and 180 sub-topics, unfolding the life and times of Shivaji, is complete.
• Procurement of copies of original historical documents is in progress.
• 3,500 ‘morphemes’, or keywords, have been identified along with
  ‘pop-up’ explanations to facilitate easy search.
• OCR and digitization of many valuable, rare books and resources is complete.
• A glossary of over 1,200 contemporaneous words, terms and phrases is ready.
• Most of the historical resources, hitherto inaccessible to non-Marathi speaking readers, have been translated and will be made available to the world.
• Resource places for scanning original documents have been identified and scanning the initial lot of original documents is in progress.

• ‘Engines’ and other technical requirements that form the backbone of the encyclopedia have been developed and successfully tested.
• Development of required tools and utilities for content team is completed.
• Software related technology for voice interactive pages has been developed.
• A dummy website with voice activated interaction has been completed, and online testing of the entire site has been done.
• State of the art ‘Software Operated Virtual Interactive Tool’ technology (SOVIT) and related software has been successfully developed.
• Presentations of a few forts using SOVIT are ready.
• A dynamic and user friendly multi-path Internal search engine, which will enable users to navigate gently and smoothly throughout the encyclopedia, is developed.
• All data base related activity with reference to the Interface of the site for effective and fast navigation is completed.
• Multimedia & articles linking in progress.
• Newer homepage layout finalised.
• Cross linking engine development complete.
• Planning on development of multi-Interactive captions technology
  completed.
• Planning of using latest technological shooting - External-SOVIT completed.
• Design of the site with tool bars and navigational concepts is finalized.

• Processing of about 750 out of 2,500 paintings on the life of Shivaji is ready for uploading to the website.
• Scripting and storyboard development for a 60-minute film on the life and times of the king is in progress.
• Options of a WAP enabled web-version are being tested.

• Procuring and the processing of 10,150 photographs from different sources.
• Arial video shooting of some of the forts for the best available bird's eye- view as the pilot project to conform the standards of the best possible view of the Forts.
• Successful execution of a record creating expedition that shot more than 1,35,000 photographs, 210 video shoots of around 210 forts.
• Post production processing complete of video clippings of for more than 65 forts.
• Completion of GPS mapping of around 10 forts.
• Completed post-production processing of around 65,000 photographs.
• Completed all the coastal forts of King Shivaji.
• Completed almost 65 forts of King Shivaji in the first phase in the southern India comprising of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Tamilnadu.

1. Exact printable map of ‘How to reach the fort'.
2. ‘To The Scale’ map of the fort.
3. Points to be seen on the fort.
4. Distances amongst all these points.
5. Exact altitude of the fort.
6. Relative elevation differences of various points of
    interest on the forts.
7. Exact longitude and latitude of the fort.
8. Other forts surrounding that fort etc.