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Дигитализацията на Научния етнографски архив – постижения, трудности и предизвикателства
The Digitization of the Academic Ethnographic Archive - Achievements, Difficulties and Challenges

Author(s): Elya Tzaneva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Library and Information Science, Archiving, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: Scientific Ethnographic Archive; digitization; endangered collections

Summary/Abstract: The text was conceived as an account of the plans of the AIEFEM team to modernize, to make adequate to modern technical and scientific standards and to promote its archival heritage. It is deployed in three short parts: 1. Familiarization with the history and content of the Scientific Archive, especially with a focus on the danger and threat of materials, which motivates the start of digitization projects; 2. Presentation of the results of the three successfully completed projects of AIEFEM with the Program„Endangered Archives” of the British Library, carried out by the team of the Archive in the period 2005-2017; 3. Formulation of the main tasks and ideas of AIEFEMarising from its inclusion in the Consortium “Heritage BG” and the successful completion of the first construction phase of it. The aim is to outline the perspectives of the Archive to the fellow-colleagues and the audience on the eve of the creation of a Digital Ethnographic Map of Bulgaria as a stage of a Digital Ethnographic Archive in IEFSEM.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 189-200
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian