CORIOLAN PETRANU – REFERENT AL COMISIEI MONUMENTELOR ISTORICE ȘI EXPERTIZELE SALE ARTISTICE DIN ROMÂNIA INTERBELICĂ. SCRISORI RISIPITE

Author(s): Nicolae Sabău / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Coriolan Petranu – Referee of the Historical Monuments Commission and His Expert Art Reports Written in Romania during the Interwar Period. Scattered Letters. The present study is a welcome and useful completion of the chapter published by the author in the volume entitled Istoria Artei la Universitatea din Cluj [Art History at the University in Cluj] (Nicolae Sabău, Corina Simion, Vlad Țoca. Coordinator Nicolae Sabău). The article focuses on previously unpublished letters on the topic. The teaching activity of Professor Coriolan Petranu, founder of the Art History Department at the University in Cluj, was beneficially completed after 1920 by his contributions in the field of historical monuments protection in Inter-War Romania and his expert reports in the field of fine arts and of the restructuring of the museums in Transylvania according to the modern principles of European museums. Among his numerous expert reports, the documents/letters under analysis record his observations, actual art historical studies, on projects related to town planning, architecture, public monuments, street furniture and technical works, urban systematization plans etc. (the building sites, liturgical furniture and wall paintings of the Orthodox church in Târgu Mureș and of the Orthodox cathedral in Cluj, the fresco of the festive hall of the Academic College in Cluj painted by master Costin Petrescu, 1938-39), the analysis of certain folk art objects from museums and collections in Transylvania, public and institutional monuments (Avram Iancu’s statue in Cluj, the Union Monument in Arad, Pârvan’s bust from the University in Cluj etc.), expert reports on Romanian vernacular monuments, wooden churches (Poiana, Tălgi, Honțișor, Bocșa Română, Roșiori etc.) and masonry churches (Criscior), his correspondence with artists of the Inter-War Period and the exhibitions he organized (Catul Bogdan, Emil Cornea, Atanase Damian, Aurel Ciupe, Aurel Papp etc., the exhibition Collegium Artisticum Transylvanicorum, Cluj, 1921), his expert reports on works of painting, sculpture, graphic arts and European bookmaking. The correspondence of the art historian from Cluj with intellectuals, professors, art historians, museum directors and library directors of upper and general education institutions from Great Romania, from Bessarabia and Bucovina, was impressive (Petre Constantinescu, Oreste Tafrali, Vasile Ciurea, Al. P. Arbore). He also made generous donations of books and photographic materials to these institutions.

SERVICII ŞI RESURSE INFORMAȚIONALE ON-LINE OFERITE DE BIBLIOTECA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ USARB ÎN CONDIŢIILE CRIZEI PANDEMICE

Author(s): Ana Nagherneac / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

The paper discusses concerning issues online information services and resources offered by SL USARB in the conditions of the pandemic crisis. In order to support distance learning and research activities, the USARB Scientific Library provides services and access to online resources and information platforms, considering that the personalrelationship of librarians with its users and virtually is very important and necessary in the new existing realities.

NEAMUL ROMÂNESC ÎN BASARABIA de NICOLAE IORGA

Author(s): Radu Moţoc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

The book was published in 1905 at Bucharest,Socecu Publishing House andis illustrated beautifully with images from Wolkenberg's postcards from Chisinau. It is afacsimile reproduction made by Publishing House ,,Semne” of the original work. But thefirst image shows a reproduction after a lithograph from 1837, executed by Raffet, titledBessarabian Mail Cart.

SCURT ISTORIC AL REVISTEI BISERICA BASARABEANĂ

Author(s): Vasile Secrieru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

In the article is presented Bessarabian Church magazine, published in 1942 inBalti, Moldova. The content of the magazine is about vary authors, the interesting titlesof their articles, but also information about Marshal Ion Antonescu's visit to Bessarabia,especially the one from Balti, on April 11-12, 1942.

EPISCOPUL MELCHISEDEC ŞTEFĂNESCU (1823-1892) – IUBITOR AL CĂRȚII ŞI CULTURII ROMÂNEŞTI

Author(s): Vasile Secrieru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

The appearance of this publication of a lover and great patriot of the Romanian book and culture, man of books and pens, theologian and historian - Bishop Melchisedec Ștefănescu (1823-1892). In the article the author writes about Melchisedec Stefanescu (1823-1892), leading figure of the age, participant in the Unification of the Romanian, delegated in the Ad-hoc Divan in 1857. Melchisedec had a fruitful activity, culminating with his election in 1860 (even if for a very short term), as the Minister of Cults and Instruction in Kogalniceanu’s government. In 1860 he became Lieutenant of bishop at Husi, bishop of the new established Bishopric of the Lower Danube (1865) and Bishop of Roman (1879), where he will pastor until his death (16th May 1892). An other important moment of his career was gaining the dignity of being an active member of the Romanian Academy in 1870. He paid attention to the activities of libraries and considered „the issue of founding libraries as important as schools”. Melchisedec Stefanescu’s multilateral personality (scholar, priest and writer) was completed by thatof a patriot. His role and involvement, far from being secondary, made possible the transition from tradition to modernity and progress.

OGLINDA BAROCULUI MUZICAL - JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Author(s): Elena Ţurcan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

The author of this article writes about the exhibition Mirror of MusicalBaroque dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, on the occasion of the355th anniversary of his birth. The exhibition presents documents from the collection ofthe USARB Scientific Library: works in different editions, audiovisual documents, criticalmonographs in Romanian, Russian and foreign languages, articles from periodicals,appearances in reference sources. The online exhibition illustrates the main stages of hislife, career and activity, summarizing the results and achievements of the composer.

Development of Digital Collections of Intangible Cultural Heritage Objects - Base Ontology

Author(s): Radovesta Stewart,Yanislav Zhelev,Mariya Monova-Zheleva / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

The digitization of the intangible cultural heritage covers a much wider range of knowledge, digitization techniques, processing of digital resources, coding and storage. Therefore, it requires extension of the standard ontology for digitalization of cultural heritage and the ways of interaction with the data. An entry for the intangible cultural heritage may be a custom, craft, event, sport or art passed down through the generations. It is complex and combines many elements. The DigiCult project helps us develop an extended model that fits the process of ICH digitalization Europe wide.

Educational Competition for Digital Presentation and Preservation of Scientific Heritage

Author(s): Zsolt László Márkus,Tibor Szkaliczki,György Szántó,Miklós Veres,Zsolt Weisz,László Molnár,László Csaba Szarka / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

Educational competitions belong to the most effective ways for motivating students to gain new knowledge on a specific domain. They can even bring scientific heritage closer to the next generation. The coronavirus pandemic put the organisation of competitions at risk. This paper presents how digital tools could help in organising educational competitions and transfer new knowledge during these events.

Promoting Python Code Clubs in Greece: A Teacher Training Program and a Case Study

Author(s): Nektarios Moumoutzis,Chara Xanthaki,Stelios Perrakis,Manousos Manousakas,Lilia Pavlova / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a training programme for Computer Science teachers on the educational use of the Python programming language inside and outside school. The programme used pre-existing educational resources centered on meaningful, self-contained programming projects. The training programme followed a blended-learning approach thus offering an opportunity to many computer science teachers make their first steps towards the educational use of the Python language within a very promising learner-centered pedagogical framework. After the initial training phase, the participating teachers were supported to establish and run local Python code clubs. The paper presents the experience from establishing, running and evaluating one of them, established at Chania, Crete by three of the authors. The evaluation clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of the code club approach to learning to code in a manner that is engaging, fun and meaningful for the students and opens up new creative opportunities for them.

Web Mining Techniques Applicable for Cultural Heritage Observations

Author(s): Emanuela Mitreva,Alexandra Nikolova,Vladimir Georgiev / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

The rapid digitalization in the cultural domain generated enormous amounts of data. But that data is not personalized or processed, thus the benefit for different users is limited, due to the variety of users – people learn through different methods. However if techniques used in the last decade to personalize web content are applied to cultural content more users could easily absorb and process the cultural heritage knowledge. Also techniques could be applied to cluster and extract useful knowledge.

The Influence of the Artificial Intelligence on the Development of the Economy - Some Cultural Aspects

Author(s): Orlin Kouzov / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

In an era of mass digitalization and revolutionary changes in the labor market, more and more people need to change profession and the development of new forms of digital art is a niche with expected growth. The associated reasons are complex, but it is possible to predict and guide them.

Approaches and Models for Application of Gamification Techniques in v-Learning

Author(s): Michela Tramonti,Alden M. Dochshanov,Mariya Monova-Zheleva,Yanislav Zhelev / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

Nowadays, the effectiveness of technology integration into teaching and learning approaches is widely recognised, mainly, in those pedagogical practices where students are the centre and co-constructors of their knowledge process. Specifically, the authors underline the potentialities of combining the gamification techniques and 3D virtual environments to design innovative learning settings through the description of two projects, TALETE and AVATAR, funded by the European Commission.

Workshop on New Educational Applications of Digital Cultural Content

Author(s): Radoslav Pavlov,Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Detelin Luchev,Lubomir Zlatkov,Nikolay Noev / Language(s): English Issue: XI/2021

The workshop on New Educational Applications of Digital Cultural Content 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 third year under the Work Package No. 4 “Activities for the Development of Scientific and Applied Products” (Activity "Digitization and virtualization of cultural heritage"). The workshop outlines also some future trends for educational applications of digital cultural content.

МестапамятиПолоцка: наперекресткахкультурныхтрадиций

Author(s): Vasiliy Voronin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2020

In the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era, there was a number of recognisable sites of remem-brance in Polotsk. Th e cult of princes and saints originated in the period of Old Rus’, while in times of the Great Duchy of Lithuania the sites were not only complemented with new analogues, but also with the municipal and land symbols, including the land’s name - White Rus’, and others. From the turn of the sixteenth century, the Polotsk memorial places were increasingly influenced by the West European culture.

Kilka myśli o mieście, historii, pamięci i narodzie

Author(s): Aleksander Łupienko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 81/2020

Średniowieczne zabytki w nowoczesnym kraju. Z dziejów dziewiętnastowiecznego polskiego dyskursu o architekturze

Author(s): Aleksander Łupienko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 81/2020

The work discusses the image of the medieval archi- tectural heritage in the Polish public discourse of the nineteenth century. The author uses a corpus of texts published in academic journals and books to ana- lyze the attitudes towards historical buildings in a period marked by intense development of the national cause and Romanticism, and later by the grow- ing competition between the empires of Central Europe in the field of culture. The analysis shows growing esteem for the Gothic style, which was seen as having great potential for the future of architecture, as the well as general pessimistic attitude towards culture prevalent in the 1880s.

Tradycje postrzegania dzielnicy żydowskiej w Krakowie: przewodniki po zabytkach miasta z drugiej połowy XIX wieku

Author(s): Hanna Kozińska-Witt / Language(s): Polish Issue: 81/2020

The article analyses the content of nineteenth-century guides of Kraków. The author seeks to define the period in which the guides first started to include information on the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz and its heritage sites.

Statistical data on international trade in British consular reports from the Sultanate of Zanzibar in the nineteenth century

Author(s): Marek Pawełczak / Language(s): English Issue: 81/2020

The article concerns the reliability of nineteenth-cen- tury British consular reports as a source for the study of international trade in Zanzibar. The author confronts the statistical data contained therein with reports from France and the United States, as well as with the correspond- ence of US and German trade companies operating in Zanzibar. The author concludes that the data contained in the reports derives from essentially reli- able sources, access to which, however, was only possible in the years of eco- nomic downturn. Although few inconsistencies can be found in the statistics, it is likely that they include significant underestimations. However, this does not preclude a significant degree of credibility in terms of the structure and general trends of the trade.

Nauczycielki ludowe. Uwarunkowania pracy kobiet w publicznej oświacie powszechnej Polski międzywojennej

Author(s): Monika Piotrowska-Marchewa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 81/2020

The article discusses the issue of working conditions of female teachers in public mainstream education in the Second Polish Repub- lic. The analysis is based on selected press publications, archival materials, and statistical data. The author studies the question of whether the state pol- icy of the Second Polish Republic promoted the involvement of women in the mainstream education structures and strengthened their professional stand- ing. The work focuses both on the advantages of working as a folk teacher and women’s opportunity for self-fulfillment in mainstream education and on the examples of structural inequality in the access to the aforementioned career.

Rzecz o przyjaźni i nauce historycznej. Listy Franciszka Bujaka do Stanisława Zakrzewskiego w zbiorach Biblioteki Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu

Author(s): Joanna Pisulińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 81/2020

The edited correspondence of Franciszek Bujak (1875– –1953), a prominent expert in social and economic history, includes 30 letters and postcards addressed to Stanisław Zakrzewski (1873–1936), a well-known and highly esteemed researcher of Polish history and Bujak’s long-time friend and collaborator. The mail dates back to the years 1902–1933 and primarily concerns private matters, although it also contains some discussions of scien- tific and organizational issues. The discussed material is stored in the Library of the National Ossolineum Institute in Wrocław.