The following is a tentative road-map to develop the database in the course of fifteen years. Some of the stages may develop simultaneously:
| 1. | Commissioning of curators, and module curations Organising the photographic collection of R. K. Singh Optimising the photos for uploading Insertion of metadata and keywords Providing titles to the photos Embedding of Google Street-views Field tours |
| 2. | Re-organising the material wherever necessary Writing of the captions Further photography of the monuments Restructuring the modules, categories, and sub-modules Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 3. | Greater focus on Ajanta narrative paintings Ellora Kanheri Pitalkhora Elephanta Bhaje, Karle, Kondivite, Kondane, etc. Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 4. | Re-organising the material, cave-by-cave, wall to wall, sculpture-to-sculpture, door-to-door, scene-by-scene in a narrative panel Writing of comprehensive captions References and critical apparatus Photo galleries on the sculptures of the various monuments Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 5. | Commissioning and production of the video contents Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 6. | Epigraphy module Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 7. | Bibliographies, citations, and references Commissioning of articles Glossary Encyclopaedic entries on specific topics Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 8. | Metadata & keywords Search functions Links Monitoring/evaluating/organising the user-generated contents Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 9. | Texts: Collection of original narratives texts from Buddhist scriptures in Pali, Sankrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, Khotanese, and Tocharian B.: critical editions, translations, links to online resources. Field surveys & drafting of fresh or revised ground plans |
| 10. | Augmented reality for the next 5 years. Field tours |