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The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of information technology on the development of creative industry in general, as well as during the Covid-19 pandemic. Finally, the Latvian Colleges of Culture project for the promotion of the competitiveness of the creative sector in the digital age will be described.
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This article presents a workflow for creating a 3D virtual environment, dedicated to the architectural heritage education. The objective is to make the process accessible to any museum, through a space by space construction. The obtained results are employed in a virtual tour of the Bardo of Algiers, a witness to Moorish palatial architecture.
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The external factors from nature are responsible for weathering of different monuments and cause considerable deterioration of Old mural Paintings. This paper presents a virtual reconstruction scheme useful for subsequent restoration processes of the degraded versions of the murals from Matia Loggia, Corvins’Castle, Hunedoara, Romania. The analysis of materials and techniques and the possible deterioration mechanisms are dis-cussed, too, correlated with the colour digital photography and mapping of visible painting degraded area were conducted.
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The article describes possible strategies for saving the cultural heritage and accelerated digitization of cultural artefacts and items of national historical significance. Emphasis is placed on the specific opportunities posed by the pandemic crisis and the labor market fluctuations to introduce ICT innovations in museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions.
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The workshop on Virtual Museums and their Educational Applica-tions presents outcomes of the National Scientific Program “Cultural and Historical Heritage, National Memory and Social Development”, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science (approved by DCM No 577 of 17 August 2018), achieved during the second year under the Work Package No. 4 “Activities for the Development of Scientific and Applied Products” (Ac-tivity "Digitization and virtualization of cultural heritage"). The workshop outlines also some future trends for educational applications of virtual mu-seums.
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It is an already known fact that during the period before the introduction of the press, either mobile or other, the archives are older than libraries. The archives of clay tablets, metal plates, paper, papyrus, and other durable materials document the national, tribal, religious, chronological, administrative, legal developments, and others as well. Such archives are almost always of an official character, although old commercial archives are also known. The links between archives and libraries in classical times were close, literary and philosophical texts were often placed on shelves and kept together and used by the same mass of readers. Good links and cooperation between archives and libraries at all levels will bring about the establishment of such national councils more quickly and effectively. If libraries and archives do not cooperate and coordinate their special roles in the future for the preservation and security of information, the authorities and users of all kinds will not easily forgive the archivists and librarians responsible for the administration of these extremely important cultural institutions. The challenge of both institutions today is the digitalization of the materials they preserve as well as the creation of a joint on-line portal which will provide fast access, anywhere and anytime. The process of digitalization and on-line publication will bring every user closer to materials that were once not easily accessible, will preserve materials from their physical use, and will enable the long-term preservation of the rare values of our country, our written heritage.
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One of the most essential elements where technology and archiving match is the electronic description of documents. if it does not have the necessary metadata that make it descriptive, is not digitization, but just scanning. Meanwhile, an archive without media is incomplete, as it does not perform its functional task of guidance the researcher towards the document he requires. Consequently, the electronic description of the document enables the digitization to provide those information tools that help the researcher in finding the information he or she is looking for GDA will start this process in the coming months, in full compliance with international standards ISAD (G) and RIC.
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In the recent years data processing in Big Data applications are moving from a batch processing model to a live streaming processing model. The live streaming processing model allows to process data in a real time or near real time manner. In many cases, there are need of combining data from various sources - both new generated data and data previously gathered and archived. In each case a different storage mechanism is appropriate to achieve best flexibility and to avoid the so-called bottleneck when processing data. In this article we review some of the possibilities of using Apache Kudu and NoSQL Redis systems which made them suitable to be used together for fast processing of streaming data.
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The quick development of information and digital technologies has involved since its beginnings also the world of documentation. This has led to the production and distribution of computerized search tools, easy to use but refined in structure and functionality. This system has nurtured hopes for a new search tool, capable of creating a network of links between documents and reference sources, the ability to integrate knowledge and build links between distributed documentary entities: an easy-to-use cultural information system with endless possibilities that would enable the interaction between cognitive systems realized according to specific procedures and on the basis of different disciplinary traditions. The issue at hand is not in fact, as many blindly believe, entirely technological, but it is above all cultural: the real obstacle to the realization of integration between documentary sources consists of specific methodologies, which over time has tried to it becomes possible to access these resources, each of them in its own disciplinary environment.
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The article reviews the problems and methods of combining big data processing work in a fully distributed mode of operation into the infrastructure of a technology startup company. In this direction, the methods of integrating an external distributed Hadoop system (cluster) are described in more detail. These methods are connected to the operating scenarios for infrastructure integration. The problems with traffic and latency are reviewed. A plan of the process of implementation and operation of a distributed Hadoop system is presented with the steps and indicative term. The goal it reaches is a suitable system for operational work on projects in a technology startup company. Then, it is connected to a list of measures in the different stages in a startup company's work. The problems with operational management of the teamwork with flexible methodology and system administration are listed, discussed and solutions proposed.
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Una dintre cele mai importante biblioteci documentare ale Transilvaniei și României este cea care s-a dezvoltat pe lângă Colegiul „Bethlen Gábor” din Aiud, colegiu care poartă numele principelui Transilvaniei de care se leagă întemeierea sa, la Alba Iulia, în prima jumătate a secolului al XVII-lea. Mutarea acestei instituții de învățământ de la Alba Iulia la Aiud a însemnat și începerea unui nou episod al activității, episod de care este strâns legată și evoluția bibliotecii documentare. În zilele noastre biblioteca aiudeană a ajuns să fie una dintre cele mai valoroase și importante, în colecția sa regăsindu-se incunabule, manuscrise valoroase, dar și tipărituri din secolele XVI-XIX. O categorie distinctă a cărților vechi o constituie cartea românească, tipărită în general cu litere chirilice, dar și cu litere latine sau în limba latină ori germană. Cele 12 exemplare de carte românească veche păstrate la Aiud aparțin secolului al XVIII-lea și începutului secolului al XIX-lea, fiind opere ale unor personalități ale culturii românești: Dimitrie Cantemir, Samuil Micu sau Ioan Molnar Piuariu.
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The real estate industry is in the early stages of software application, in constant search of new tools to make the industry work more efficiently and effectively. The real estate market is differentiated by certain needs, respectively each segment of the real estate market is looking for software solutions to meet the main needs. In order to meet the requirements of the real estate market, the authors come up with a proposal to create a prototype (iMoPal), including software application development, for a product, namely an online real estate platform for property management, and the creation of a scoring system for tenant and landlord. The application offers a proficient time management solution between tenant and landlord.
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While considering the role of the museum in connection with the experiences and interpretations of bearers of museum activities we should take a look at its contemporary social role and position. In this paper the case of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum(SEM) as the main national ethnological museum in Slovenia is taken, offering three504 / Българска етнология, бр. 4 (2020)examples in details. The SEM’s practises are concerned in the light of the ICOM’snew definition of the museum discussed at the last ICOM’s 25th General Conference in Kyoto (2019). The proposed new definition did not gain the support of the majority of the ICOM General Conference participants. The main reason for it not being accepted was that it did not include a mention of the fundamental museum activities, among them the educational function. It is a fact that the platform of museum activities in the 21st century is considerably wider than that communicated by the definition from2007 and that social conditions call for it to be changed, based on the conditions in the modern world, marked by climate change, the destruction of nature, social inequality, lack of economic opportunities, migrations, discrimination, conflicts and wars, non-transparency and the lack of credibility of the ruling structures. The new definition that will satisfy most museum experts in the world will undoubtedly have to reflect the social reality in which museums function and are faced with daily, which will establish the role of museums as socially relevant institutions. But the content defining museums as educational and research institutions that are generators of knowledge about the heritage of the past for the present and the future as well as a creative inspiration should not be neglected. The SEM has now been led by these principles for twenty years. In the article, three examples are presented to describe SEM’s activities on the field of contemporary practises regarding the creative relationship between curators and interlocutors: co-called personal exhibitions that take place under the title My Life, My World, which are structurally and thematically connected to the permanent exhibition I, We and Others: Images of my World, project accessibility of Cultural Heritage to Vulnerable Groups and exhibition Africa and Slovenia, A Web of People and Objects that was developed within the SWICH project.
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Moving beyond colonial relationships between Europeans, North Americans, and their “Others” requires that museum leaders decolonize their praxis. We need educative pedagogies that bring us into constructive dialogues and mutually respectful relationships, whether with previously colonized subjects, fellow citizens of other ethnicities, or with refugees of global diasporas. We need to create dynamic spaces, even though these liminal places of encounter may be fraught with challenges and risks. Folklore Studies offer important entry points for decolonizing museum interpretations. Prominent among these is the importance of recognizing and fostering liminal spaces for educative encounters. Ethnological museums that showcase folklore, whether from local, national, or world cultures, are pivotal institutions in this endeavor. This conceptual essay presents four guiding principles that I have distilled from years of systematic ethnographic research in Germany and Belgium. I offer vignettes from four museums to illustrate how the principles of dissenting, deconstructing, displaying, and deconstructing can foster best practices.
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The Ethnographic Museum was founded in Zagreb in 1919. For a century more than 85,000 items from all over Croatia, as well as from the neighbouring European countries and the non-European cultures have been collected. The museum is a space for learning, personal growth and cultural exchange. In this paper, we present and discuss how to interpret museum objects in various educational programs for different groups of visitors and users based on a collection of non-European cultures. In a contemporary social and political context, it is very important to raise awareness about cultural diversity, exchange and tolerance in particular with a young audience.
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The following paper deals with the manner in which the contemporary museum abides in the age of digital technologies. How it performs in an increasingly prevailing digital reality, which opens to the museum institution new opportunities for engagement with the public. The measures taken by the museums are aimed precisely at organizing and controlling this digital environment. This includes the addition of new exhibition space – in this case, the virtual, as well as the development of new skills by the museum specialists – working with social media, technological know-how and strategies for their application. The article focuses on the digital development strategy of the Museum of Modern Art as an example of the institutions’ accession to the digital play and the new reality. Through the prism of a few key terms such as accessibility, participation and interaction we can determine the actual appliance of new media and technologies in the museum.
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The following text focuses on the challenges that museums faced concerning the communication with different audiences on Facebook in a time of severe physical isolation and closed museum spaces imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The activities of ten selected Bulgarian museums are traced, emphasizing the main characteristics in the way they function. The study does not give an evaluation, butrather seeks the models of activity and interaction which may be applied in Bulgarian museums. Their activities are considered in a wide range of topics of interest tocontemporary museums, including forms of museum activism, participation in thework process and communication with audiences through the various forms ofheritage. The text focuses on the need for creativity in museums, the manifestationof which can outline the role of the museum in the present, which relates to sharingknowledge with audiences and provoking each other to create different views on thepast. This process is concentrated on presenting future-oriented notions of heritage,as the communities (real or virtual), interested in the museum, will gain greaterimportance, rather than the different categories of visitors.
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