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In the first part of his article, the author outlines briefly the history and character of three periodicals published by Romani associations in Poland. In the second part a full bibliography of the Holocaust-related texts published in these periodicals has been presented.
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The article treats the incorrect in terms of methodology use of artworks as a ‘credible source’ for reconstructing architectural sites in ruins. Medieval representations from Veliko Tyrnovo treated in scientific publications form the first group. Enough arguments have been adduced pertaining to their specificity of typologizing images following particular iconographic patterns. Hence the second group is accentuated, containing drawings and engravings by West-European artists of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries with regard to Philippopolis (Plovdiv), Kyustendil and Sozopol. Significant discrepancies are witnessed showing that these artworks wouldn’t also evince strict topographic descriptions. Furthermore, western artists have inevitably reproduced any situation premising on their experience got from their own environments, perception, knowledge, etc., i.e. foreign cultural stereotypes underlie these works. An artwork is in itself a reflection depending on historical, cultural, and individual factors. Using such a category of pictorial material in gathering information about the respective sites, might lead to replacing direct by indirect evidence and an ensuing series of interrelated assumptions. Against a backdrop of the recent massive construction and reconstruction works carried out on Bulgaria’s heritage sites, individual instances are dealt with of ignoring the original artefacts, which results anew in creating fakes thus irreversibly damaging the authenticity of cultural values.
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Only 15 years have passed since the first digital libraries were deployed, and only 20 or 30 since e-mail became available to us. It is a matter of fact that there is a significant, growing corpus of digital content available for scholarly research in the humanities, and this is going to change the conditions for our intellectual lives. After participating in numerous meetings, workshops and European Projects, we can offer a critical overview on the DH: taking some of the premises of Postcolonial Studies as a starting point, we propose denouncing the technical and commercial strategies developed by powerful consortia of companies and states from the anglophone and northern axis. Our aim is to point out that another kind of innovation is possible, based on users and social priorities, for the digital humanities, as well.
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Network visualization is now becoming very popular research perspective and one of the key terms defining the contemporary media. Apparently, this is natural in a society that is increasingly being described by modern intellectuals and sociologists using the metaphor of the network. Technological networks, with the Internet and mobile phones at the forefront, now mediate many cultural, economic and social practices. Humanity today operates in an environment shaped by technological networks. This leads not only to the constitution of new communities and models of communication, but has also allowed modern researchers to gain access to huge amounts of data, digital traces left by users. The Internet is also becoming a huge archive for collecting and providing archival and historical cultural resources. This information can often not be understood or processed without the tools offered by new types of online research. In using the term “tool” I mean both theoretical and methodological solutions as well as specific technical ones.
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In the article, the author touches on the problem of the rapid and dramatic expansion of information, drawing attention to the huge importance of organisation and self-awareness in science – especially in disciplines that are wide-ranging or interdisciplinary, both in traditional and new disciplines. What creates and binds disciplines is their language. The author uses the example of the cognitive sciences to demonstrate the need to remain attentive to this fact, and presents an exploratory study of a corpus of articles from Polish cognitive science journals conducted using the methods of the digital humanities (computerized statistical analysis) with the aim of searching for collocations and comparing the results with current knowledge within the discipline.
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According to the opponents of Wikipedia it offers low-quality content and has led to a reduction in the level of literacy. However, studies show that Wikipedia is not inferior to Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of its substantive value, and in terms of content offers a much wider range. Meanwhile, Wikipedia outclasses Britannica in terms of social and geographical coverage because it can be accessed by those who never had a chance to touch a volume of Britannica. In a later section, we discuss the basic principles of the functioning of Wikipedia and its consequences, as well as problems, such as the high competencies necessary to properly use Wikipedia, the declining number of editors, the site’s gender gap and its geographical imbalance.
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There is an emerging consensus among the members of the academic research community that eScience practices should be congruent with Open Science, which essentially facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration and data sharing and re-use, entailing Open and Shared Access to research data, data services, tools, analyses, and methods. This short paper presents the key characteristics of a sustainable open science e-Infrastructure as gained from six years of operation of OpenAIRE, a key EU e-Infrastructure on scholarly communication. presented.
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EuDML makes the mathematics literature available online in the form of an enduring digital collection, developed and maintained by a network of institutions. EuDML is currently indexing more than 257 000 items across 14 collections. The current state and future plans are presented.
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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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While websites are of great interest for digital archives, the digital long term preservation of websites is a huge problem. The reason is that websites consist of a large number of file formats and require today’s hardware and software environment to work properly. PABLO is a software tool that processes websites and transforms them into a dramatically simplified form that is simple enough for digital archiving and exhaustive enough to preserve the websites content and appearance and allows users to browse the entire site like the original.
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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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The paper draws the current state of Bulgarian Open access (OA) activities and discussion points for the Seventh National Information Day: Open Access to Scientific Information and data.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries collectibles and collecting spread within Europe, and bibliophilia was quite common. At the end of the eighteenth century, and following the plundering of the Republic by foreign invaders, citizens began to strive for independence and many patriots worked to save the achievements of Polish culture. They created collections that became the treasuries of Polish culture. The collections were aimed at saving valuable items before their dispersal or destruction, including Polish literature e.g. documents, letters, diaries, and any records of scientific achievements. The collections also gave rise to numerous initiatives aimed at educating the Polish nation and fighting against national destruction. Throughout the nineteenth century until the First World War, libraries were created as institutions that were available not only to researchers, but gradually also to representatives of all social classes. It was a process that reflected, as in a mirror, the wider social changes taking place in Polish lands. Initially the founders of scientific libraries with a focus on the humanities came from the aristocracy and gentry, but from the mid-century, their ranks were joined by an increasing number of collectors from other professions, such as lawyers, politics, priests, teachers, and people of culture and art.
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The aim of this article is to describe modern methods and techniques for making collections and their metadata available based on the example of Trove service (http://trove.nla.gov.au) run by the National Library of Australia. The website integrates and presents information about different types of library collections, archives, museums, originated from many institutional sources. Trove features facets for limiting search results, FRBR, relevancy ranking of the site in relation to the query, social networking tools. Trove combines a wide range of information resources with highly effective search tools and data management.
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The article examines the role of an individual representative of provincial intellectuals in the public life of a large industrial city. The key figure of the article is Sergey Smirnov, who had for decades played a significant role in the public life of Ivanovo-Voznesensk. The author describes his work in the local branch of the Russian technical society and in the public library and his publishing activities as a founder of the first local newspaper.
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