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Проучване на колекциите на Регионален исторически музей – Шумен като необходим етап от процесите на дигитализация
Researching the Collections of Regional Historical Museum – Shumen as a Necessary Step in the Digitization Process

Author(s): Galya Atanasova
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Electronic information storage and retrieval
Published by: Университет по библиотекознание и информационни технологии
Keywords: museum fund; museum collections; digitization; criteria

Summary/Abstract: The museum fund is the core that unites the collections of movable cultural properties and around which the entire activity of the museum as an institution gravitates. The preservation and presentation of movable cultural properties at present is largely happening through the processes of digitization, and it could not be done without prior research by the relevant specialists. This paper aims to look at different collections of it – their structuring, method of creation, thematic and time scope, selection and steps for digitization of individual exemplar and reaching the user.The main tasks that the report sets are: to research and present museum collections, and on the basis of the gathered information to propose criteria for their complete digitization or that of individual movable cultural properties. The research is applicable to specialists with interests in digitization of movable cultural properties.

  • Issue Year: 4/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 369-381
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian
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