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Conference-Report: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018, 20–21 September 2018, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana. Reported by Jakob Lenardič.
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The manuscripts sent to peer-reviewed journals are subjected to an audit called the peer review process in order to control them from various angles. The double-blind peer review process (CK), which is one of these processes, is predominantly preferred by scientific journals in the discipline of tourism and has been carried out for many years. However, in recent years, CK has been subject to criticism in various aspects. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine the thoughts of tourism academicians about the CK. In this research, where qualitative research methods are used, the population consists of the academicians taking part in the scientific committee of the 20th National Tourism Congress. The population is required to be accessible and because of this no need for sampling. The semi-structured interview form, which was interviewed electronically, was used in order to collect data. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive analysis method. According to the results, tourism academicians (69%) think that the process increases the quality of the manuscripts. In addition, the process, objectivity and quality assurance in terms of providing advantages; it also has the disadvantages that time and referees can make sloppy review. Finally, it is foreseen by the academicians that the process can be improved by some precautions taken by the editors and referees.
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Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński is considered a controversial book – the opinions about it expressed by Iranian experts are definitely divergent. The author attempts to compare the selected facts from the history of Iran, which are described in the reportage, to the information gathered in other publications (including academic sources) on the topic. The analysis of the passages of the book, which were compared with relevant historical information, identified various types of factual inaccuracies – ranging from obvious factual errors to discrepancies implemented by the reporter deliberately. The greatest value of Kapuściński’s reportage is therefore not the objectivity of the message but its universality.
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The article presents the itinerary of Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania (1392–1430) on the basis of extensive source material, both published and unpublished, preserved in the archives and libraries of Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine; the relevant literature is also taken into account. The analysis of Vytautas’ itinerary against the background of the rulers’ travelling practice in the other countries of medieval Europe leads to the conclusion that no system of the ruler’s regular tours emerged in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, unlike in neighbouring Poland under Władysław Jagiełło. The grand duke of Lithuania spent most of his time in Lithuania proper and in Grodno land, leaving the core of the state for the outlying districts and foreign states in connection with specific tasks of home and foreign policy, such as strengthening his power, meetings with other rulers and war expeditions.
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There are ten documents from 1390–1424 preserved in the State Archives in Wrocław, issued by the Dominican convent of St. Adalbert in Wrocław. This group is unique for the entire Polish province of the Dominican Order. The subject of the article is the edition of the abovementioned documents and a presentation of their source value for the history of Wrocław’s Dominicans at the turn of the fifteenth century
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Using selected films, a picture of library buildings and their interiors from the 1950s to the present day has been created. The vast majority of libraries are “temples of knowledge”, and librarians (invariably educated and relatively unattractive women) are the “guardians” of the collections. Contemporary film rarely depicts shows libraries as a system not to be overestimated “in the times of smart phones and social media”. Filmmakers’ attention is drawn mainly the interesting architecture of library interiors to, in which “library scenes” are set, hence the aura of library is seldom perceptible. Książnice is often the backdrop or part of the story told in the film, and sometimes reveal other features such as the genre and other books important to the characters.
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This paper presents how the PerFECt Framework for establishing and sustaining learning communities can be combined with innovative approaches of teaching mathematics using drama, to develop unplugged activities to introduce the binary system in primary and secondary school students. The resulting Human Calculator theatrical game enables students, using their bodies, to learn the binary representation of numbers and discover the algorithms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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This paper gives an overview of the current efforts of National Library “Ivan Vazov” in the field of digitization. It focusses on the technical aspects of a digitalization project, involving OCR and provides insight into the library’s joint efforts with its partners to develop relevant tools and methodologies.
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In this paper we aim to explore and implement a modern speech recognition system using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis that can be applied in the area of audio and text archive investigation from various languages. To that end we developed a project that can be used to convert speech to text and perform various analysis on a converted text. Furthermore, we focused on recognizing different information such as names, emotions and also determine the overall sentiment of a script. Furthermore, we perform web scraping for names and organizations of importance used in speech. To achieve this, we used Python with various specialized modules. In order to simplify the task of collecting and storing audio inputs for processing we have developed an Android app with connection to a cloud database. This methodology can easily be applied for the purposes of digital presentation and preservation of cultural and scientific heritage.
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The objective of the applied research is the construction of a cross-media map to discover the agricultural landscape, through the digitization and geo-referencing on Google maps of historical maps and photos of the Cà Granda Foundation Archive. It allows the visualization and immediate accessibility of landscape transformations, in a sort of multimedia journey through time.
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The paper is in the frame of the proposed topic about virtual re-constructions and interactive multimedia solutions especially for performance arts in the digital era and the newly opened possibilities and challenges. Examples from the world and Bulgarian practices for the emergence of different new digimodern art hybrids are analyzed.
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In association with UNESCO, the world’s scientific community commemorated in 2019 the 100th anniversary of the death of Roland Eötvös, a world-famous Hungarian polyhistor. This paper presents various multimedia tools and services applied in the commemorative year to preserve and present his multifold scientific and societal heritage on Web and mobile platforms.
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The famous palladium of Venice, the Nicopeia icon kept in the basilica of San Marco, 1968 underwent spectral and micro chemical investigations. Their largely overlooked to the moment findings proved the existence of more superimposed images of Our Lady, not identical with the one visible today. The present paper analyzes the issues of these laboratory ex-aminations from technical-technological point of view to the end to gain as many as possible insights into the composition, sequence and plastic construction of the original painting and its successive transformations. The visualization of the outcomes and the evaluation of the various work hypotheses are supported by imaging and post processing techniques ranging from digitization and optimization of old analogue photos to image manipulation methods. The results allow to draw conclusions not only about the appearance of the hidden Mother of God and about its original significance, but al-so to address for first time with scientific criteria the question of the icon’s date and provenance.
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The article briefly describes the database “Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage under the protection of UNESCO” and its realization through web based application. The web application follows the approach Understanding by Design, a modern pedagogical strategy aiming presentation of additional learning content. The web based application provides additional content in a multimedia environment that encourages the learners to manipulate information and learn through specific experiences upon re-search. The database and its realization – a web application as a knowledge-based tool for e-learning, were designed and developed in IMI (BAS).
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In the paper we discuss the problem of building a web site that is accessible to the people with different disabilities. We show some basic guidelines that should be followed by the web site developers in order to complete this task. Also, some special web content accessibility testing tools are presented. Finally, we make special attention to accessibility of some of the most popular digital cultural heritage web archives.
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Damage or destruction of cultural and historical objects due to time and other factors is a key problem in culturology and archaeology. The article examines the use of technologies related to processing of the so-called „big data“ in search of a rational solution to this important scientific and social problem.
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The problem of creating a fully automated specific-domain thesaurus is very topical. The paper presents a novel method to address this problem in the Italian language. The main feature of this approach is the integration of different methods: machine learning classification methods working on the semantic representation of candidate terms, word embed-dings models, able to capture the semantics of words, and a computation of the degree of specialization of a term. The work is in progress and results obtained so far are promising.
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Speech to Text is the ability to convert spoken word to text. There are many speech to text conversion applications available for different languages. Tamil is an ancient classical language which is vastly spoken in southern parts of India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore. The speech to text application is de-signed from an indigenous perspective to enable the native speakers to preserve their linguistic heritage. The application was developed using agile methodology and the testing of the application suggested that the existing API do not support in the notion of preserving the language in its original form.
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The relevance of scientific research is determined by the need of describing the paper deals with the issues of copyright observance in the process of preparing the first multi-volume edition of Ivan Franko’s works. It was published by the private publishing houses “Rukh” and “Knyhospilka” during 1924–1931. Research methods: textological method, source studies analysis, synthesis, descriptive and chronological method. Novelty. The author of the paper focuses on the details of relations between “Rukh” publishing house and the descendants of the writer against the background of legislature on copyright protection in 1919–1924. The reasons for the publisher’s need to prove the exclusive right of printing a multi-volume edition of Ivan Franko’s works have been clarified. The necessity to conclude an agreement with the publishing house “Knyhospilka” have been substantiated as well. Reconstructing the dialogue with the descendants, the researcher used archival documents, stored in the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine and the Department of Manuscripts and Textual Studies of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The analyzed materials include the private correspondence of the publishing house “Rukh” board members with I. Franko’s heirs, V. Vynnychenko and other Ukrainian writers; correspondence with officials, institutions and organizations, as well as documentation concerning the publisher’s payments to the authors. The total sum of the royalties has been indicated. The paper also highlights a number of difficulties and problems complicating the publishing project. Conclusions. The analysis of archival documents adds substantial information on some aspects of copyright issues that were topical during the publication of Ivan Franko’s works in 30 volumes.
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In this article we have chosen to talk about a great historical figure, which has left traces during its course, the figure of Ismail Qemal. In the History of Albania and the Albanian people there are many dates and historical figures that have left traces during its course. Precisely for this reason and today I will try to give a brief overview of what documentary sources are stored today in the funds of the GDA (AQSH), for the figure of Ismail Qemal.
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