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Polska poezja na Wyspach: podczas wieczorów panuje tu nostalgia

Author(s): Anna Kałuża / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Kałuża describes the communicational conditions, politico-cultural perspectives and aesthetic or artistic approach to poems in the work of Polish poets residing outside Poland. As a point of departure she proposes to substitute twenty-first-century emigre narratives with notions of cultural encounters and everyday writing practices. Based on an analysis of both the poems and the traditions in which they are rooted, Kałuża proposes her principal thesis that these works are tied to a monolithic and conservative model of culture.

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Wstyd czy duma? Niechciana ciąża i aborcja w peerelowskich i współczesnych powieściach dla dziewcząt

Author(s): Eliza Szybowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

This article examines novels for girls that deal with unlawful pregnancy and abortion, comparing those that were published in the Polish People’s Republic with those that came out in the recent past. The study focuses on changing notions of shame and pride as tools of power and/or fuel for emancipation. Szybowicz is interested in the plots, characters, the language used by the characters, as well as rhetoric strategies in the novels, which she reads as manifestations of the dominant discourses of their times.

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Dotkliwe historie

Author(s): Justyna Tabaszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

Tabaszewska reads Svetlana Alexievich’s reportage works as affective texts that alter the conditions of how the world of Events is experienced and perceived. With a conceptual framework inspired by Lauren Berlant, Jill Bennett, Astrid Erll and others, Tabaszewska highlights those aspects of Alexievich’s works that indicate their affective, emotional, bodily and somatic character. These works of reportage are also read as an attempt to create a new form of remembering these previously marginalized Events that any given society must internalize and then work through.

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WHAT ARE STUDIA DIGITALIA?

Author(s): Willard McCarty / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

More than half a century ago an American professor of English literature, Joseph Raben, founded Computers and the Humanities, the first journal in the field. In the first article of its first issue Louis Milic wrote with uncommon clarity of vision that,The true nature of the machine is unknown to us, but it is neither a human brain nor a mechanical clerk. The computer has a logic of its own, one which the scholar must master if he is to benefit from his relations with it. Its intelligence and ours must be made complementary, not antagonistic or subservient to each other…. The computer can be made an extension of man only if it opens avenues we have not suspected the existence of. (1966: 4)

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COORDINATORS FOREWORD

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

As editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, we are proud to announce the publication of the first issue of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, the first Romanian academic journal dedicated entirely to the Digital Humanities research and practice. The main aims of Studia UBB Digitalia are motivating and promoting the research in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, especially in Europe, in general, and Romania, in particular.

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DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY EDITING OF ST PATRICK’S EPISTLES. LINKING THE MANUSCRIPT WITNESSES TO THE CANONICAL TEXT

Author(s): Roman Bleier / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

St Patrick of Ireland, the fifth-century missionary and bishop, wrote two epistles which are commonly referred to as Confessio and Epistola ad milites Corotici. These two texts survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses which were copied centuries after Patrick’s time. This article discusses digital transcriptions of these manuscript witnesses. The transcriptions were encoded using the encoding standard of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) following a documentary editing approach. The transcriptions will be the core of a new digital documentary edition. This edition is meant to be a research tool for the exploration of the medieval documents, but at the same time it is a mediator between the manuscript witnesses and existing text-critical editions and translations of the texts. This mediator function is achieved by including markers of lines and chapter of a canonical edition and links to an existing text-critical edition online. In the final section a few examples will briefly be look at that illustrate what kind of analysis will be possible and what visual presentations of the transcriptions will be incorporated in the new edition.

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STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PUBLISHING: THE OPEN WEB PLATFORM AND THE ALTERNATIVES

Author(s): Nicolaie Constantinescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Today’s scientific practice makes data the first territory for analysis and publishing becomes the rich context for cross referencing and interpretation. Scholarly publishing practices, editing and publishing in general have been shaped by the printing press and later on fashioned by the launch of the scientific journals starting in 1665 with the Philosophical Transactions by the Royal Society. Trends are mounting towards a self-publishing model, let that be under a known editorial label or in a self-sustained environment under university’s press umbrella or by the help of online free existing tools and services. All of the practices lend themselves to one purpose: being indexed, being parsed, mined for data, and emerging as valuable contributions to the field and become relevant. This paper explores some the new tool chains the Open Web Platform offers and some alternatives to be considered in the daily editing workflows. The envelope of the existing technologies is pushed further to step into the future world of deep learning and artificial intelligence. An exploratory tab will be set on the possibilities self-publishing is presenting the researchers in terms of tools and publishing platforms other than the regular channels.

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ALBUMS IN THE ATTIC. AN INVESTIGATION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC METADATA

Author(s): Vinayak Das Gupta / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This article investigates the challenges of creating online research collections, specifically for photographic objects. This examination considers the material aspects of the photograph and considers the manner in which they may be made accessible within a web resource. The article explores the challenges of attributing metadata for visual resources in an attempt to address some of the key issues in the production of resources in the Digital Humanities.

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MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONAL ARCHIVES?

Author(s): Gábor Palkó / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

In his book entitled What is media archaeology Jussi Parikka suggests that it is possible to outline and develop a ‘hardcore’ media archaeology not only of the hard drive and software but their official use as a database, as information management systems as well. But is it possible at all to give a media archaeological account of the formal-institutional digital media practices, to provide a deep and material media archaeology of, say, a scholarly text archive as TextGrid or Deutsches Textarchiv? In my paper I try to check the ability of Parikka’s argument to answer these questions.

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A LOW TE(A)CH APPROACH TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Author(s): Liviu Pop / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Technological fatigue is spreading due to the increased arrays of technological branches and the rapid pace of development. Keeping up with the latest and newest might prove not only difficult and tiring, but also not necessarily recommended to beginners in digital humanities. A more “back to the basis” approach might be more useful for students that don’t have technical backgrounds.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF DATA VISUALIZATION: TEACHING ART HISTORY THROUGH TIMELINES

Author(s): Voica Puşcaşiu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This research wishes to consider the venerable, but relatively marginal use of timelines as means of visualizing coexisting historical events and figures with special emphasis on Art History, a domain where it loses many of its inherent faults and manages to functional. The use of digital tools in humanities research is on the rise, yeilding interesting results as the timelines are now able to take on new forms. The benefits are thus increased and this chronological representation complements the traditional and established method, especially when it comes to teaching a subject that contains such ample amounts of data.

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EXIST DB OR SAXON/C IN PHP. A COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO APPROACHES FOR XSLT 2.0 BASED WEBSITES

Author(s): Christian Schwaderer / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

XML and XSLT are very popular technologies among Digital Humanists. However, when it comes to deploying an XSLT 2.0 processor into a website infrastructure some difficulties arrise. This paper discusses two possible approaches for doing XSLT 2.0 transformations on the fly on a Web (Application) Server: Saxon as a PHP extension and Saxon within the popular XML database eXist. The conclusion shows, that both solutions have their pros and cons. In the end, however, the PHP solution wins.

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THE DIGITISATION – MEASURING PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL PRESENCE

Author(s): Liana Stanca,Cristina Felea,Ramona Lacurezeanu,Christian Schuster / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The aim of the present study is to create the profile of persons who have become aware of their need to have a specific tool to move intelligently in an urban space. The research is conducted within the frame of smart cities literature and approaches cities from the perspective of the presence of Information and Communication Technologies in all areas of social, economic and political life. In this context, smart people are considered to be persons who use the advantages of technology to obtain information-knowledge and are capable to identify the need of a smart tool to assist them in various domains. A concept map is created that is interpreted as a tool to measure the physical and virtual presence of senior undergraduate students in Economic Informatics in places significant for academic information and knowledge transfer. The authors try to demonstrate the importance of combining data mining and social network analysis methods so as to carry out a complex analysis of the problem and validate by their findings important research by Fortunato, Girvan, Papadopoulos, Adedoyin-Olowe et al.

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BRINGING BOSCH ALIVE THROUGH MULTIMEDIA

Author(s): Voica Puşcaşiu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

When one talks about “digital art” there are a great number of very different manifestations that could potentially fall into this category. One of the first things to keep in mind is the fact that as a term “digital art” does not refer to any particular style or aesthetic, thus the great variety. Much rather it is a medium through which artists choose to present their ideas. However as with all things digital, this can take on a lot of different facets, the digital turn has provided not only the opportunity for art archival and dissemination, but also as an extensive creative tool whose only limit lies in the imagination and/or technical skill of the author. To put it simply, digital art can range from works created entirely with the use of a computer and software, to alteration done with the help of the digital medium. It can include appropriation of other classical works that receive new life and meaning through this approach.

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VIORELLA MANOLACHE, SIGNS AND DESIGNS OF THE VIRTUAL(IZING) E@ST, INTRODUCTION IAN BROWNE, INSTEAD OF AN AFTERWORD CRISTI PANTELIMON, LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, SAARBRÜCKEN, 2013, 124 P.

Author(s): Valentin Trifescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2017

nțeles în sens larg, fără pretenția unor redefiniri sau reinterpretări teoretice, postmodernismul a avut în spațiul cultural românesc manifestări vizibile mai ales în domeniul literar, muzical ori al artelor vizuale. În ceea ce privește cercetarea științifică din domeniul umanioarelor, puțini au fost cei care au avut vocația sau curajul de a fi contemporani-cu-epoca-lor în stil dar și în conținut. Cu alte cuvinte, cercetarea științifică românească a rămas cantonată în vechile tipare metodologice, tematice și stilistice, păstrând „toți nasturii închiși la cămașă” și constrângerea unei cravate deja demult demodate, purtate pe post de marcă a seriozității academice. Cu toate acestea, câțiva cercetători cu o deschidere interdisciplinară mai amplă – asemenea unor temerari experimentatori ai „stilului neastâmpărat” în cercetare sau a unora care știu-să-se-joace-serios și să facă din actul lecturii academice o plăcere nu numai pentru creier, dar și pentru urechi sau ochi, cum sunt (pentru a intra în logica lui Trei ) clujeanul François Bréda, sibianul Gheorghe Manolache ori bucureșteanul Bogdan Ghiu – au abordat subiecte marginale ori metisate într-o scriitură cu certe valori estetice, nefăcând rabat, în același timp, de la rigorile științifice. Importantă pentru acești cercetători a fost realizarea unor texte polivalente, structurate pe mai multe paliere de înțelegere, cu trimiteri mereu subversive „pour les connaisseurs”, dar care, nu în ultimul rând, trebuie să producă plăcere. De cele mai multe ori, tehnica (de codare) folosită pentru lansarea mesajului ideatic apelează la: jocuri de cuvinte, întreruperi, pauze, puncte de suspensie, paranteze, slashuri, sublinieri, ruperi de ritm, fragmente, aluzii, linkuri, travestiuri, mixaje, combinații neașteptate ori kitschuri de toate felurile (de limbaj, bibliografic, tematic, discursiv etc.).

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Стари надгробни паметници от района на Судак, Крим

Author(s): Leniyara Dzhelilova,Akhtem Dzhelilov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The paper presents the authors’ research on gravestones found in villages near Sudak. Most gravestones date back to the second half of 19th and early 20th centuries. Gravestones in the villages near Sudak have their own history. The most ancient one is dated by 1218 a.h./1802–1803 c.e., and the most recent one – by 1362 a.h./1943 c.e. The gravestones found in Khoz, Tokhlukh and Tarakhtash can be classified in three groups:1. Ancient gravestones;2. Fragments (remnants) of ancient gravestones; 3. Top parts of the ancient gravestones – fez, dal fez [turban], sarykh, fragments of an astrakhan cap.Crimean Tatar gravestones found in these three villages were made in pillar on in slabstone form. The face plate contains inscriptions, called epitaphs (from Greek έπιτάφιος – “specific of gravestone”). The other sides of gravestones contain engravings (decorations and drawings): the Islamic symbol of a star and crescent, Koran, ewer and plants, including fig-tree, six-petal flowers, etc.The tradition of Crimean Tatar gravestones, found in Khoz, Tokhlukh and Tarakhtash villages near Sudak, originated from Ottoman Turkey. There is also some similarity between the gravestones in Sudak and the thombstones from the Roman period on the territory of contemporary Turkey.

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THE STORY OF THE FIRST ELECTRONIC COMPUTER IN HUNGARY

Author(s): Balint Domolki / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

After several preparatory activities in the early 50s, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences decided that it is necessary to have an electronic computer in Hungary. The Research Group for Cybernetics was established in mid-1956 and charged with the task of obtaining one. As commercial solutions proved to be impossible at that time it was decided to build the clone of a recently developed Soviet computer. The M-3 was a medium sized member of one of the first families of Soviet computers. Complete documentation and a package of key components were received in the framework of scientific cooperation. (Similar clones were built in Tallinn, Beijing, Erevan and M-3 was later manufactured in Minsk) Building of the M-3 started late 1957 (with the author's participation). Some life-signs were emerging in 1959, while more-or-less stabile operation was reached in 1960. Several improvements were made over the original design. Magnetic drum memory was exported to Timisoara for MECIPT. Despite its low performance, M-3 was successfully used to solve many real-life problems both for scientific-engineering calculations and in mathematical economics. Applications in other fields, like linguistics started too. The most important contribution of M-3 was its role in educating computer experts: many of the future leading personalities - both on the development and on the application side - got acquainted with computing around the M-3. M-3 served academic computing until 1965, extended with three more years at Szeged University. In the first part of the 60s commercial computers started to arrive to Hungary both from the USSR and the West.

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COMPUTER ORIENTED HIGHER EDUCATION IN HUNGARY – THE BEGINNINGS

Author(s): Edit Sántáné-Tóth / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The history of computer-oriented higher education in Hungary started in 1957, when Prof. László Kalmár started the education of “applied mathematicians” at the University of Szeged. (The author graduated in the second year of this course, later called the “Szeged School.”) This paper starts with the computing experience around M-3, the first computer made in Hungary, and the use of this experience for educational purposes. It then continues with the initiatives of the University of Szeged, and, after surveying some basic and higher-degree courses, goes on to the institutions of higher learning offering education in computer studies, all the way to the programmer and program developer mathematician courses started in 1972 at three science-universities. However, the institutions of technical education will not be discussed in such detail; although teaching applied computing skills necessary for the technical field had begun quite early, the teaching of professional IT specialists was started only around 1990. The paper contains a table listing the first elective and founding subjects and the first specializations and independent training programmes offered by each university and college. Finally there is a short overview of the connections between contemporary professors and a list of the first conferences organized for IT teachers in Hungary.The IT History Forum (iTF) within the John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT) was founded at the beginning of 2009. At one of its events, it occurred to the author that information about the beginnings should be gathered while the persons in question are still alive. The study took 3 years to prepare and is the product of a large-scale collaboration: a total of 130 contemporary and present day teachers, researchers, and librarians participated in the work. Typotex published the material in the form of a book in 2012 . This study, which provides insight into the everyday lives of 30 institutions, is the source for this paper. (The book includes a name-index containing 300 entries and a list of almost 500 definitive contemporary articles, textbooks and technical books published until 1980.) – The paper is concluded with a brief presentation of the digitalised “Data Archive” (see the iTF website: http://itf2.njszt.hu) that serves to preserve the history of computing in Hungary.

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PAST AND PRESENT OF THE FIELD OF INFORMATICS AT “BABEȘ-BOLYAI” UNIVERSITY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN CLUJ-NAPOCA

Author(s): Grigor Moldovan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This article is centered on the story of the pioneering endeavors in the field of informatics in Romania and more specifically in Cluj-Napoca. Stemming from personal experience and reverence towards the very first professors and specialists that opened up this vast and formidable domain, this article which reads as a history of Romanian informatics, has the added benefit of filling in a noticeable gap in texts that take into account this interesting subject. Spanning from the 50s and all the way up to the 90s and tracing the opening, and transformations, and eventual closure of research centers, laboratories, and various institutional collaborations, this article brigs a better understanding of the efforts and challenges that are always seem to be intertwined with progress, but which were eventually overcome through the persistence of brilliant scholars, and sometimes even the occasional favorable policy. Special attention is given to the entity of the Calculus Centre at Babeș-Bolyai University, founded in 1975, as the author himself was its director for 17 years until it was dismantled in 1992. This too however did not mark and end, but rather a new beginning, a different model of institution that was meant to tackle the ever-changing issues informatics face today.

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MEMORIES, RECOLLECTIONS, AND LANDMARKS OR HOW I BECAME A PIONEER

Author(s): Mihai Stanislav Jalobeanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The paper presents a pioneering period (68-76) in the context and with the difficulties of those years remembered all of a sudden in 2006 on the occasion of the celebration of Herbert Francke in Bremen. This leaded without further explanations to a partial restart of the educational activity in the ‘graphic-imagery’.

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