A „window” opened to the past

National Library of Romania’s contribution to the European digital libraries projects

Author(s): Mariana Radu,Adriana Dumitran,Anca Andreescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

The core of the Special Collection in the National Library of Romania includes stocks coming from famous collectors, to which there are to be added representative works for the book and Romanian and world printing history, coming from donations and purchase. ENRICH Project. Manuscriptorium aimed the access to digital images of the old documents from different cultural European institutions. The National Library of Romania also participated to other projects, as follows: REDISCOVER, developed in the framework of the programme of European cooperation Culture Program 2007-2013 and Balkan Itineraries. Virtual digital collection, pilot project developed between 2011 and 2013, which aimed to create a bibliographical database to include rare and valuable books printed between the 16th and the 18th century and signed by French or Francophone authors, diplomats, militaries, explorers and adventurers, books including travel impressions about the Balkan and Oriental countries, especially about the territories populated by Bulgarians, Serbians and Romanians, during the Ottoman domination.

A New Beginning: Information and Communication Sciences Research

Author(s): Octavia-Luciana Madge / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

A short history of the journal is presented and the steps taken along the years in order to enhance the quality and reach of the journal, including the recent change of its title.

A New Digital Solution for Promoting of the Romanian Literary Patrimony

Author(s): Lidia BAJENARU,Veronica Gavrilă,Irina Cristescu,Dragos Daniel IORDACHE,Ciprian Dobre / Language(s): English / Issue: Suppl. 1/2019

A way of highlighting and promoting the most important and significant components of the national heritage is to harness them through Internet-based technologies. This paper presents the proposed digital solution for the promotion and preservation of collections of information from the Romanian literary patrimony using intelligent digital solutions for the extraction and systematization of knowledge. This digital solution, a platform, will offer advanced, intelligent semantic search and analysis services and prediction forms concerning Romanian literature. This paper presents several important platforms, systems and projects that are linked to the Literary Heritage. Then, a comparative analysis of the functionality, limitations and opportunities of the most relevant online platforms is presented, followed by the description of the main features of INTELLIT platform.

A new generation of Romanian researchers in the field of library science...?

Author(s): Robert Coravu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2011

A New Journal On Information Literacy

Author(s): Ane Landoy / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2009

A New Start

Author(s): Angela Repanovici,Robert Coravu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

A plecat Mihaela...

Author(s): Ion Stoica / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2001

A Possibility to Teach and Learn Mathematics by Theatre Technology

Author(s): Sava Grozdev,Veselin Nenkov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

In the recent years new approaches were created to teach and learn Mathematics. One of them is by using theatre plays with mathematical content. The present paper proposes a scenario of such a play based on linear Diophantine equations.

A Practical Approach to Ascertaining the Accuracy and Resolution of Post Rendered 3D Models Acquired Originally via 3D Digitization

Author(s): Feng Zhao,Soo Choon Loy / Language(s): English / Issue: VII/2017

3D digitization is becoming the norm in the preservation of tangible cultural properties be it movable or immovable. In the case of mobile cultural objects, 3D models are normally acquired through non-destructive methods such as photogrammetry or 3D scanning using structured light or laser. The continuing improvements in scanning equipment which result in higher accuracy and resolution can be translated to mean higher level of 3D data acquired. At times, the quantity of 3D data of a single model can get too large and beyond what a normal work-station can process. This is where optimization comes in. However, the level of optimization will vary to suit the final purpose or usage of the 3D model. During optimization, the resulting optimized 3D model is bound to suffer from some level of data loss when compared to the original 3D model acquired directly from laser scanning. This paper discusses a practical method devised by Amber Digital Solutions in maintaining a high level of accuracy of the final optimized model for national archival purposes which requires the highest form of quality.

A Serious Educational Game of Bulgarian Military and Historical Heritage

Author(s): Nikolay Noev,Maxim Goynov,Vladimir Sapundjiev,Iliya Valev / Language(s): English / Issue: VII/2017

This article present work on the project of developing the models and concepts of serious educational games through related multimedia resources of military and historical heritage.

A SHORT HISTORY OF COMPUTER USE AT FACULTY OF PHYSICS – UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Author(s): Mircea Victor Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

For physicists computing is a main activity. Starting from devising an experiment to problem solving with computer, from using mathematical tables to other aids to computation, physics has grown its strength by using each step the numerical computation. So, computing for researches as well as education was used and steadily improved by us, starting from first minicomputers to the last generation of computers and algorithms. In this presentation we will follow, in short, the evolution of computing, hard and soft, in physics at our faculty. We selected here the main field of interests that was connected with problems showing: programmed solutions, simulations and modeling, computer application and software during the time. Such a time recollection is interesting and surprises me as how diverse and far such activity was done. Examples will be from computation in tradition physics, to biology, chemistry, astronomy, medicine to data processing and visualization, data management, to create our own educational software and so on. The fields as nonlinear dynamics, complexity, chaos and fractals, as well as fluid dynamics, atomic, molecular or nuclear physics, earth or stellar physics, connected to improvement of the experiments and devices via artificial intelligence are some of our topics which will be exemplified here.

A Short Note on the Glagolitic Ornament in Pamvo Berynda’s Triod Cvetnaya (Kiev 1631)

Author(s): Sebastian Kempgen / Language(s): English / Issue: 14-15/2015

The article draws attention to two lesser known lines written in Glagolitic which are part of the Epilogue to Pamvo Berynda’s Triod Cvetnaja, printed in Kiev in 1631. Thanks to their typographic realisation, these two lines seem to have been mainly considered „an ornament“ or a „cryptographic“ element of the text in older literature. The article presents the Glagolitic text in standard Unicode encoding, so it becomes electronically searchable as such, along with a transliteration and a translation. It turns out that the Glagolitic text is nearly identical to the self-descriptions famout printer Pamvo Berynda had used before (although in Cyrillic). Another question put forth in the paper is the provenience of the actual printing types used in Kiev in 1631. A comparision shows that the letters look similar – but not identical – to printing type used around the same time Italy (Rome, Venice) or by Primož Trubar in the century before. The typographic quality of the Kievan types is, however, inferior.

A Short Review over the Evacuation of the Administrative Archives of Caliacra and Durostor Counties Following the Cession of Southern Dobrudja in 1940

Author(s): Virgil Coman / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

A Study in Gold

Top Romanian Scholarly Journals and Their Open Access Policies

Author(s): Robert Coravu,Mihai Constantinescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

This study aims to offer a global image of the top Romanian Open Access journals. After the identification of the Romanian journals included in the most widely-used bibliometric databases (Web of Science and Scopus), some characteristics, such as their inclusion in DOAJ and/or ROAD, the use of Open Access licenses and the existence of processing/submission charges are analysed. The conclusions of this study offer a perspective on the Open Access movement and its influence on Romanian scientific publishers.

A Survey of Mathematics Discovered by Computers. Part 2.

Author(s): Sava Grozdev,Hiroshi Okumura,Deko Dekov / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2017

This is the second part of the survey on mathematics discovered by computers. The first part is published in 2015 in the International Journal of Computer Discovered Mathematics. The second part of the survey contains articles published in 2015 – 2017.

A Synergetic Approach to Creating an Informational Infrastructure at “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania

Author(s): Mioara Voncilă,Ion Voncilă / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2009

In a first stage, the paper approaches notions pertaining to information literacy, discussing particularities of the modern world, a world where information plays an important role. To organize an ocean of information -wherein the human being finds itself - claims a synergetic approach to structures of information production, processing, transmission and storing. Since libraries play a major part in the processes of information trafficking, the paper also revisits the numerous (global) attempts to create a genuine information literacy. A second stage of the paper presents - as a study case as well as a new way of approaching information literacy, within a relatively restricted space, i.e., that of a university (an academic community) - the way to create an informational infrastructure based on synergetic principles. În prima parte, lucrarea abordează noțiuni aparținând culturii informației, punând în discuție trăsăturile specifice ale lumii moderne, în care informația joacă un rol important. Pentru a organiza un ocean de informații- în cadrul căruia ființa umană se regăsește – este necesară o abordare sinergică a structurilor proceselor de producere, prelucrare, transmitere și stocare a informațiilor. Întrucât bibliotecile joacă un rol major în procesul de circulație a informațiilor, lucrarea trece de asemenea în revistă numeroasele încercări (la nivel global) de a crea o veritabilă cultură a informației. A doua parte a lucrării prezintă - ca studiu de caz, precum și ca un nou mod de abordare a culturii informației, într-un spațiu relativ restrâns cum este acela al universității (o comunitate academică) - modalitatea de a crea o infrastructură informațională bazată pe principii sinergice.

A szabad magyar könyv

Author(s): Pál Kerekes / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2018

A tale of two cities:

Achieving smarter economy through communication and virtual work

Author(s): Joshua Olusegun FAYOMI,Zainab Abdulqadir SANI / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2020

Seamless communication within and between cities allows for a tremendous increase in efficiencies, one of which is the way work can be done. When work no longer needs to be carried out only within the confines of the traditional office, it can then be done virtually and this research seeks to explore how communication influences the creation of smart economy through virtual work. Virtual work is increasingly becoming ideal for organizations as there is a rise in the quality and quantity of data that can be accessed and analysed from outside the traditional office. Smart city research has shown that has also shown that for cities to be have smart economies there needs to be seamless connection between points of information within such cities.This research begins with a detailed desk research to identify and outline the key indices for smart mobility and smart cities, leading to the proposal of a conceptual framework for evaluating two selected case studies through surveys within these cases. This research therefore builds on prior smart cities and virtual work research to establish a framework for evaluating and explaining the relationship between smart communication and smart economy and established the link between connectivity/communication to mobility, and further shows how the increase in connectivity increase virtual work which in turn leads to a smarter economy. The implications for the results from this research extends the ongoing work been done to increase efficiencies in the connection of infrastructure, human capital and information within cities which is useful to both academics and policy makers alike. The clear relationships established between virtual work and smart mobility and its mediating effect on the development of smart economy is very valuable for academic and practice.

A.B.I.R. și legislația în domeniul perfecționării profesionale în biblioteci

Author(s): Ionica Șerban / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2004

A aborda subiectul referitor la formarea profesională în bibliotecile din România, în general, presupune, în primul rând, sublinierea necesității acestui demers profesional care are un caracter continuu, impus de evoluțiile din acest domeniu. Fiind o activitate care presupune respectarea unor parametri profesionali deosebiți, această pregătire este strict legiferată de mai multe normative. Lucrarea de față își propune să ordoneze și să prezinte actele normative care reglementează formarea și dezvoltarea profesională și să scoată în evidență lacunele legislației din acest domeniu. ABIR and the legislation in the field and professional development in libraries To deal with the subject concerning the professional training in Romanian libraryes, it generatly supposes mainly the underlining of the necessity of this professional atep which has a permanent aspect imposed by the developments in this field. Being an activity which implies the observance of special professional parameters, this training is strictly legislated by more standards. This present work wants to set in order and to show the normative acts which establish the formation and the professional developments, and to point out the blanks of this domain's legislation.

Abilitate, nu dizabilitate!

Proiecte de integrare a persoanelor cu dizabilităţi în Biblioteca Naţională a României

Author(s): Adriana Elena Borună / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2013

Adevărata integrare a persoanelor cu dizabilităţi în sistemul de învăţământ şi mai apoi pe piaţa muncii se realizează prin facilitarea accesului comod la informaţii. Astfel, Biblioteca Naţională a României a iniţiat proiectul Dream (Digital Resources – easy to access and manage) cu sprijinul Fundaţiei Orange. De asemenea, în luna decembrie 2012, cu ocazia Zilei internaţionale a persoanelor cu dizabilităţi, Bibliotecii Naţionale i-a fost acordată „Marca accesibilităţii” de către Fundaţia Motivation România, în urma unei auditări realizate de echipe mixte de utilizatori de scaun rulant, experţi în accesibilitate şi arhitecţi. Biblioteca Naţională oferă asistenţă de specialitate bibliotecilor care doresc să îşi facă disponibile colecţiile şi serviciile persoanelor cu dizabilităţi. Rezultatele proiectului Dream vor influenţa mediul social şi economic, prin creşterea numărului de elevi şi studenţi cu probleme de vedere; integrarea profesională a persoanelor cu probleme de vedere; acces la colecţiile Bibliotecii Naţionale şi la baze specializate de date, prin intermediul site-ului bibliotecii; îndrumare în folosirea noilor tehnologii; reducerea discriminării.