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The penetration of ICT in the management and study of material culture and the emergence of digital cultural repositories and linked cultural data in particular are expected to enable new paths in humanities research and new approaches to cultural heritage. Success is contingent upon securing information trustworthiness, long-term preservation, and the ability to re-use, re-combine and re-interpret digital content. In this perspective, we review the use in the cultural heritage domain of digital curation and curation-aware repository systems; achieving semantic interoperability through ontologies; explicitly addressing contextual issues of cultural heritage and humanities information; and the services of digital research infrastructures.
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The paper presents how the VR technology helps tourists in selecting their destinations. The current state-of-the-art service is the result of systematic development activities which has become available in the tourist information office (Tourinform) in the town of Miskolc. The visitors can discover the local sights either on the Web site of the tourist organisation, or in the GUIDE@HAND Miskolc smart phone application, or from now on, in a virtual space due to the Virtual Reality (VR) technology with the help of 3D VR glasses and spherical panorama pictures.
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This paper discusses how 3D digitization of cultural properties and modern interactive methods can help museums disseminate, educate and share the rich history, culture and civilization of museums’ collection more effectively than traditional methods which used visual boards.
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The article is a summary of a multi-year research into certification of bells of 16th - early 20th centuries collected as a result of liturgical instruments study of 287 bell towers, churches and museums. Analysis of archives from Belarus contributed to the research resurrecting knowledge about lost bell heritage. This is also the first attempt to discuss the establishment of digital Belarusian Historic Bells Archive and introduction of campan handling basic trainings into educational programs of religious educational establishments.
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The priceless knowledge from the scientific periodicals, published by Bulgarian museums, has fallen into oblivion over the years. In the era of electronic information, the opportunity arises this once lost knowledge to be made Open Access - free of all restrictions on access. Upon digitilization and correct annotation of the museum paper editions followed by providing them on the Internet for free access, there will be offered scope for a more comprehensive study of the Bulgarian cultural heritage, an integral part of which are the works of its researchers. Registering content in platforms such as Europeana / Bulgariana and setting common standards to facilitate finding the information will be the next challenge for the followers of the idea of cultural heritage digital repositories.
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The studying of the monuments and complexes in Tarnovo, as well as some other examples in its vicinity give us some strong points for determining of earthquakes and provide data for developing a digital model for this natural phenomenon in the urban environment, in accordance with the specific natural characteristics.
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Five hundred years of mercury mining in the town of Idrija in western Slovenia resulted in a highly polluted and degraded landscape. In recent decades and especially since the closure of the mine in the mid-1990s, the town experienced a somewhat successful transition into other more environmentally friendly industries. The mine itself underwent a transition into a museum and, together with the wider region, became a »geopark« and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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On January 23, 2013, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) returned to free general admission. This announcement coincided with the official launching of two programs: DMA Friends, a loyalty program, and DMA Partners, a membership program which is free of charge. The aim of this article is to propose an analysis, at the crossroads of media semiology, of political science and the historical sociology of statistical rationality, with a view to studying the ways in which the DMA Friends program designers have mobilized the statistical argument to justify the soundness of their approach. In order to do so, they leaned on a range of media forms generated by a sophisticated techno-semiotic apparatus which represents, in a statistical form, the behavior of visitors inside the museum. The program (and the whole instrumentation that sustains it) illustrates a media innovation experiment in the museum sector that questions the ways by which the statistical work is mediated according to the communicational situations in which it is mobilized and enhanced.
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In this work the author gives us the review of the cultural heritage of the town of Varaždin which has been fostered and reflected on its cultural identity for centuries. The first part of the author’s work deals with the major cultural and historical buildings, which through the arhitecture and the style of building blend magnificently with the rich history of Varaždin. Among the architectural pearls the special place is taken by the Old town, the feudal fortress which has served for years as a fortification in the many battles against the Turks, giving the town the status of significant fortifying centre. The old town centre abounds in numerous palaces and villas which are remarkable for their Baroque, Rococo and Classicist styles as well as imposing churches which give the town a sacral note. The second part of this work brings the review of the most prominent town squares and promenades, the bearers of the true identity of the town, among which the author singles out Varaždin’s cemetery constructed according to Herman Haller’s ideas. The third part of this work has to do with the current offers of social events that are of a great significance for the town, the most prominent being the festival of baroque music called the Varaždin Baroque Evenings. On this festival, with its age-long tradition, the musicians have been performing music by the most prominent composers thus representing the town on the world’s music scale. The last part of this work deals with the possibilities of development and promotion of the town’s cultural tourism, having in mind the new projects and ideas which, through their originality and attractiveness, contribute to the entire cultural offer of the town.
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The trace of Jurica Murai in the Archives of the Croatian Television explains the meeting and interweaving of programme intentions and orientations of the music programme of the Zagreb and Croatian Television with Murai’s great pianism, as well as with his sense of duty towards the milieu and its history, and conducting this complex task on a high level. The reflection of Murai’s coherentworld in the music programme of the Zagreb Television is a warning proof that no medium is a replacement of another, but rather a new reality that enriches the whole, and that the comprehension thereof is crucial for gaining a real insight into the true value of the work and the maturity of the milieu in which the work is created, where it lives and is inherited.
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This article primarily examines the state and the potential of fortification architecture perceived through three examples in Varaždin County. The first is fort Pusta Bela, where to this day no archaeological excavations or building restorations were done. Due to the inaccessibility of a fort, and lack of additional contents with which it could be linked, it is not likely that any time soon any work will start there. Another example is the fort Paka, which is one of the few examples of this type of architecture that is completely archaeologically researched, conserved and presented, but after research its systematic maintenance was largely neglected, and that could lead to new degradations of its structures. The third fort is Grebegrad, which actually stands somewhere in between the first two examples, because building repairs of its structures started, but due to the volume of work, and extremely high financial investment that they require before building could be even safe for conducting archaeological research, it will take some time until the moment when this fort could be considered as completely explored, repaired and presented like fort Paka. This segment of heritage has great potential for conservation, presentation and popularization of the area where it is located, but at this stage, these resources are still largely neglected and substantially untapped. However, in recent years there is a growing interest for fortification architecture, which will certainly stimulate new research, restoration and revitalization of this type of cultural heritage, and result in their preservation in the future, and that is the primary goal.
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Precondition for the overall preservation of the archival and documentary material is the systematic and regular control of the record management system, i.e. control that records and documents are properly managed. Especially important is the control of the implementation of corresponding archival legislation in record management departments and offices in order to permanently preserve the archival heritage. Archival institutions are those authorities that keep control in the creating bodies, public or private equally. Free access to archival documents represents a rather delicate issue of professional and public conflict for archivists, i.e. the archivists have to make a decision between the prescribed recommendations and actual right to access to documents that are not accessible for the time being, due to many different reasons. The pressure for the access to documents in archives is getting stronger, the communication and information technologies for information exchange more sophisticated and in addition to that the ICA took a stand that archival material create a heritage and the memory of a State and thus a memory of a Region and the World. In such circumstances, the archival and administrative authorities need to define what documents will be classified as state secrets and what documents will keep the personal integrity protected. In other words, the State needs to define what are the documents created by sensitive state bodies that do not comply to the archival legislation in the sense that they are not free accessible for the public inspection.
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The main focus of this work is a 17th century Safavid carpet in the collection of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The present article seeks to show all aspects of the great value of this carpet. The first thing that the author examines is the cause of its arrival to Sarajevo and after a brief historical overview the author comes to the conclusion that the carpet was a part of Austro-Hungarian cultural policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Stylistic and formal analysis shows that the carpet belongs to the group of Persian vase carpets with multiple-medallions design. This extraordinary masterpiece was finished not in 1067 AH (1656 AD), as Arthur Upham Pope suggested, but in 1047 AH (1637/38 AD). On the basis of historical sources it was possible to conclude that this carpet was made for and placed in Shayh Ni‘matullah Walī Shrine in Mahan, Iran. At the end of the paper the author suggests that the patron was a member of the noble Mīrmirān family.
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The article analyzes the contradictions and problems of search for a new image of Penza and Penza region. The article draws attention to the symptoms of the collective memory amnesia of the recent Soviet past in a regional context. The author discusses the contradictions of a new urban identity which are reflected in the change of the city symbols, the processes of media representation of the recent Soviet past, and the prospects of the Soviet museumification in the urban context. The author raises the problem of integration of the collective memory of the late Soviet period in the contemporary discourse about the urban image of Penza.
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Обыватель, размышляя над смыслом по- пулярного слова «музеефикация», обратится к простой аналогии со словом «электрификация». Советскому человеку оно хорошо знакомо. В «Со- ветском энциклопедическом словаре» читаем: «электрификация — широкое внедрение в произ- водство и быт электрической энергии… Полная электрификация — основа материально-техниче- ской базы коммунизма»1. Не трудно дать, таким образом, определение понятию «музеефикация»: «музеефикация — есть широкое внедрение музей- ных экспонатов в повседневную жизнь человека» и далее, что особенно важно, «музеефикация — есть основа формирования культурного человека».
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