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Тhe paper is an attempt to overcome the asymmetry in the descriptions of web forums as a genre of Internet communication. It supports the classification based on content by challenging the differentiation of forums according to their communicative goals.
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The paper I’m presenting is based on a topic that has so far been studied little in Albanian archivistics. The first attempt in the field of Albanian archival thinking was conducted by Dr. Kujtim Nuro on his PhD thesis “Aspects of Archival Thought in Albania 1506-1912”. The emergence of modern archival thought in the first half of the 20th century does not exclude the conceptual clashes, what should be understood and is understood during the historical development process with “documents and forms of existence, manner of construction, conservation mode and its functions. As a consequence, the Albanian archival thought is ancient, that the “archival concept” was the “document” itself. Modern Albanian archival thinking as institutional theory and practice has preceded the establishment of an institutional archival state alongside the institutionalization of the Albanian state from 1912 until today. In the period 1912-1944 the foundations of archival thought were laid in our country. In this period as well as in the world practice, the “Archive” has experienced scientific and institutional treatments, and due to the necessity of national, international and social institutional communication, the archival opinion of the time was a necessity, the establishment of this activity on legal and observable levels. The entire history of archive development in this period has found deep and concise historical treatment in the “History of Archives in Albania” and Dr. Ivan Loli (Tirana, 1999). Based on the historical archival history of Albania and the world, after the second world war, with the establishment of a state of a different nature, archival thought was not left behind, and in the function of inter-ministerial communication, by the order of the Council of Ministers in 1949, of the State with multiple functions in the field of document handling “as the historical memory of the nation”. The archival Albanian opinion of the state of dictatorship and the closed society was dealt with by M. Pela in the “Archive Manual” of 1984. In this period, the theory and practice of archives marks levels comparable to the European ones and the Albanian archive became a partner and cooperative with many European archives. The communist-era archivistic’s opinion laid before the central bodies the need to raise the qualification of employees on an institutional scale. After the 1990s, the archival thought, in the period of state overthrows, has passed and has been in existence before existentialist situations, as everywhere and in the archive field there was a possibility of annihilation. Archival thinking has preceded these situations, and as a result of the opening of the society “archives from closed and scary institutions” became “open institutions in a free and open society” where besides the institutionally legitimized functions they started to play an important role, in function of non-institutional but also a civil service.
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After research conducted at the National Library of Kosovo “Peter Bogdani”, respectively in the Department of Special Collections, we found that this institution possesses a considerable number of Latin collections. The content of these collections is mainly of scholatic, educational, historical and religious nature. The period of these publications ranges from 1474 to 1955. It is to be emphasized that most of these collections are mainly of historical, cultural, educational, vocabulary, grammar and exercise content. Much of them are books donated by prominent personalities of culture, science and studies such as Kristë Maloki, Shaqir Kastrati and others. But there are also purchases from individuals. They are currently used by library audience only for study and research aspects. Given the importance of these collections, they are classified in the special fund of rare and old book collections and are considered a rarity. In addition to the original books, some of these collections have copies. In this paper we have attempted to provide basic bibliographic data and content.
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The plan of S. Maria Assunta in Torcello designed by the Russian architect and painter N. Brjullov in 1855 is analyzed in the context of less or more known written historic documents, of architectural and archaeological evidence, in order to virtually reconstruct by faithful images and interactive narratives the cathedral as it was immediately before the restorations 1854-58.
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This article aims to provide an overview of the use of network analysis methods in law and to discuss the use of these methods for legal information retrieval. For this purpose, it contains the theoretical basis for the functioning of network analysis, but the focus of the article lies more in the categorization of ways of using this method in the application to legal sources. The purpose of the overview is to emphasize the differences of this method from other statistical methods and especially to highlight its advantages. Based on these conclusions, the author discusses the suitability of using network methods for easier and more generally accessible legal information retrieval and suggests some specific methods of how network analysis could help in working with legal information.
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Following the analysis of the theories specific to the process of carrying out a Business Reengineering Plan (BPR), from the perspective of the security of the information provided and the security guarantees offered to the management of any such process, we consider that a systemic approach to introduce the subject among the central themes of the term is needed. Management reengineering and/or management reengineering at the organizational/corporate level is one of the major challenges facing the shareholders/owners of a company that initiates such an approach today. The lack of information protection and the guarantee of its security, within the concept of reengineering, especially in the current society conditions (characterized by major economic effects caused by crises, pandemics, cyber attacks, etc.), is one of the big unresolved problems of reengineering but also the major reason for the distrust of employees in companies subject to this process.
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During the information day, the results of the work of the IMI-BAS team on the project CLaDA-BG, the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Research e-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies in Favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, Part of the EU Infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, will be presented: the development of the Humanities and Social Sciences Data Storage, Retrieval and Curation Environment (CHCS-DSRCE) and its implementation in the Digital Library "Virtual Encyclopedia of Bulgarian Iconography" and for the needs of the "Ivan Vazov" Regional Library in Plovdiv and “Peyo Yavorov” Regional Library - Burgas.
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Overall, there are 400 song types mentioning a wolf in the Latvju dainas tradition. A lot of songs show the wolf as the main subject of the song, although there are many songs where it is one of the participating animals. Some of the songs show the wolf as a personified animal, acting like a human. Among activities performed in this state there are singing songs, playing a pipe or a bagpipe, dancing, getting married, baptizing the wolf ’s son. As the first folklore researchers considered such animal activities childish, the song types describing them are found in the first volume of “Latvju dainas”, incorporated in the cycle “Education of the child, nursing and teaching”. As a musician and singer the wolf is described in approximately 50 song types, the most important is song type LD 2686, included in the subgroup “birds wedding”. The word “bird” has some semantic peculiarities evident in the opposition of “undomesticated birds and animals” vs. “domesticated animals and people”. Quantitative analysis shows that this type contains 40 variants (having 20–60 lines each), which K. Barons divided into 14 versions. The wolf is mentioned in 20 variants, 9 versions, the wolf blows pipes and bagpipes (16 variants), starts singing (1 variant), slaughters a cattle (1 variant), guards horses (2 variants) during this common meal. In addition to the wolf in these 9 versions there are 21 bird, 9 mammals, 3 reptiles, 2 insects. A wedding meal appears in the story, consisting of beer and meat, meaning that all birds and mammals, including a hare, are considered carnivore. In the group of classical quatrains (approximately 15 song types) the wolf is shown a) as a bridegroom at his wedding party – his bride is a fox, b) in their family life, c) how they get ready for their son’s baptizing with a hare as a godfather. A number of textual variants of Christmas game (38 variants) and some quatrains show the wolf as a suitor going or riding to take a goat as a wife. There the wolf fights alone against people and domesticated animals (masking, breaking promises). The wolf personified as a dancer is described in approximately 20 song types. The most interesting of them is LD 2206, included in the same children’s cycle. It is a long song type, too, containing 21 variant being divided into 17 versions. Of 9 full-length versions (16–24 lines) the wolf is mentioned in 6. The plot of these songs shows an event reminiscent of the Canadian Indians – potlatch, i.e., gift-giving. In this gift-giving everybody and everything may take part – people, animals, natural objects, mythological beings – and the wolf is the last gift-receiver. Each of these song types relates to a certain historical period and different worldviews. * “Latvju dainu” personificēto dzīvnieku tēlojumā risinātas daudzas un dažādas cilvēku sadzīves un sociālo attiecību problēmas. Rakstā mēģināts sniegt ieskatu, kā vilka tēls izmantots svarīgu un svinīgu dzīves brīžu tēlojumā: ko tas dara kāzās, kristībās, īpaši uzsverot funkcijas kā muzicēšana, svētku galda gatavošana, dejošana, līgavas izvēle un kāzas, bērnu audzināšana. Nosacīti nodalītās četrās dziesmu kopās skatītas personificētā vilka un tā apkaimes (dzīvnieku fona) saskares jomas: apģērbs, dalībnieku kvantitatīvais sastāvs, valodas lietojums, personifikācijas pakāpe, dalība dāvanu apmaiņā.
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Complex, dynamic, and controversial, the principle of authenticity in the practice of conservation-restoration is part of many international theoretical texts. The present essay presents and analyzes critically how authenticity is reflected by: the Venice Charter (1964), the UNESCO Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, the Nara Document on Authenticity (1994), the Declaration of San Antonio (1996), and the Riga Charter on Authenticity and Historical Reconstruction in Relationship to Cultural Heritage (2000). Having either a worldwide or regional impact in the field of conservation-restoration, these theoretical texts are the object of many professional debates and studies on authenticity, regarded from both theoretical and practical perspectives. As they are the product of a different space and time, they also highlight the importance conferred until now upon authenticity in the field of conservation-restoration of cultural heritage.
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In accordance with Romanian legislation regulating the conservation-restoration activity, the restorers elaborate sets of normative regulations depending on their specialization (i.e., restoration of mural painting and painting on wood, of polychrome stucco, of wooden decoration, of stone and plaster decoration, of metal, of stained glass, etc.). The present essay presents the rules and principles to be followed when elaborating the general normative regulations, which should be then adapted to the specificity of the conservation-restoration works of different artistic components belonging to historical monuments. Likewise, it is argued throughout the essay that the legislation concerning the drawing-up of technical-economic documentation should be harmonized with the specificity of works on artistic components of historical monuments.
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This research has as a starting point some information discovered in the library catalogues where reference is made to the existence of duplicate incunabula in the book holdings. They are catalogues drawn up after the death of the library’s founder, bishop Ignác Batthyány (+ 1798) by the second librarian, András Cseresnyés. Following the bishop’s death, the Government of Transylvania also requested the inventory of the book holdings and writing catalogues to know the exact holdings considering the lawsuit filed by the family of the deceased bishop.On this occasion, librarian A. Cseresnyés drew up several catalogues to which he also added that of the duplicates existent at that time. Among the duplicates are mentioned a series of incunabula which over time were given in exchange (in 1826) or sold (between 1930 and 1931) due to financial difficulties. Of those discovered to date, only the bishop-founder had incunabula in his collection. Of these, several tens with lacks, damp stains, fragmented etc were removed from the initial holdings. The library needs a new incunabulum catalogue to contain maybe also a short description of the circulation of each copy till Transylvania; similarly, it also needs to find out, if possible, about the potential local collectors, especially local private individuals, for example from the Saxon Transylvanian area. The incunabulum collection held by the bishop founder of the institute from Alba Iulia was amassed in different ways; all of them left traces on the works such as ownership marks.The study also tackles the works or articles written in Romania concerning the incunabulum collection of the Batthyaneum Library to offer, we hope, a starting point for researching the holdings and, perhaps, for writing a new catalogue.
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Universities are the publishers of most of the peer-reviewed journals in Turkey. Except for a few good practice examples, journals in universities are not published from a single center under the brand name "University Press." Journals are published by sub-units of universities, such as Faculty and Institutes, without considering a standard publication policy and quality system. Although there are Publication Commissions in Universities, these commissions are not active in publishing peer-reviewed journals in a common standard. Legislative arrangements are needed in this regard. When university units decide to publish a peer-reviewed journal, this journal begins its publication life in a short time.In this process, no preliminary preparations are made about academic publishing, and information about the transfer of experience is not obtained from experienced editors and publishers. Since universities do not have expert administrative staff experienced in peer-reviewed journal publishing, these journals generally start publication with weak publishing criteria. For example, the most common mistake is to give the journal a long name that is too weak in terms of branding, which will need to be changed in the future, such as "….University… Faculty Journal". Another problem is that academic staff working in the institutions of these journals prioritize publishing their scientific studies. In addition, Dean or the Director is determined as the editor-in-chief. It is not taken into consideration that this situation may be perceived as a violation of publishing ethics, known as "Unfair Authorship/Editorship." In this process, it is overlooked whether a manager with an administrative duty can be an active editor. Afterward, an editorial team, mainly composed of research assistants, is formed to carry out the publication processes of the journal. Although the names of dozens of people are written on the journal boards, the actual process is carried out by one or more people. These people work very hard with dedication. However, academic publishing is a team effort, and efforts by one or two people will not be enough for the journal to reach the desired goals. For the aforementioned reasons, journals that start publication without serious preliminary preparation are either unable to find articles to publish or are closed after a few issues.Academic journal publishing is more complex than popular journal publishing. There are legal, financial, scholarly, ethical, and technical rules and principles that journals must comply with. Apart from all these, the application and process follow-up to academic databases with a technical aspect are also the responsibility of the same editorial team. The criteria and application processes of each academic database are different. Naturally, following the criteria of dozens of databases and carrying out the application processes cannot be carried out effectively by those who work in the journal for the first time and do not have experience in this field.The acceptance rate of Turkish journals by academic databases is not at the desired level. In the low acceptance rate, the factor that the journals do not sufficiently comply with the criteria of the academic database comes to the fore. All national (TR Index) and international academic databases have various criteria for journal acceptance. As an editor, I have examined the selection criteria of national and international indexes to minimize the difficulties experienced in the application and acceptance processes of the indexes. In addition, I have reviewed the principles of academic publishing of international organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Also, I glanced at the literature on indices and their functioning. As a result, "Peer-Reviewed Journal SWOTs Analysis" was developed to be used to identify the strengths and areas of improvement of academic journals. By applying the Academic Journals SWOTs Analysis, it can be determined that the journals fully comply with the criteria of national and international indexes and which ones have deficiencies. Thanks to the developed system, how to eliminate the shortcoming is also reported to the editors as practical information.The data to be used in the Academic Journal SWOTs Analysis; is collected from the editor-in-chief, the journal website, the ISSN registry, and national-international indexes. The collected data is analyzed, and the answers given by the editor-in-chief are compared with the information obtained from open sources such as the journal website. The results are entered into the SWOTs Analysis System. The dataset of the SWOTs Analysis Questionnaire is comprised of 22 sections and 250 questions. To determine the strengths or weaknesses of the journal, the name of the journal (6 questions) in the first section, the journal history in the second section (5 questions), the ISSN record in the third section (9 questions), the publication period in the fourth section (10 questions), the aim & scope of the journal in the fifth section (10 questions), in the sixth part the language of publication (5 questions), in the seventh part the publisher information (12 questions), in the eighth part the journal website (20 questions), in the ninth part the volume/issue system (6 questions), in the tenth part the editorial structure (13 questions), the editorial board in the eleventh part (9 questions), the peer review process in the twelfth part (24 questions), the research and publication ethics policy in the thirteenth part (27 questions), the copyright and licensing policy in the fourteenth part ( 14 questions), the archive policy in the fifteenth section (5 questions), the price policy in the sixteenth section (8 questions), the article typesetting format in the seventeenth section (33 questions), the publication quality in the eighteenth section and the international interest in the journal (10 questions), index in the nineteenth chapter relations with the authors and data distribution policy (3 questions), the indexing status of the journal in the twentieth section (10 questions), the citations of the editorial team and the authors in the twenty-first section (7 questions), and the visibility and promotion of the journal in the twenty-second section (4 questions) are analysed.Peer-reviewed Journal SWOTs Analysis was applied to the requested peer-reviewed journals by YAZIM DESTEGI experts (www.yazmdestegi.com) in January-October 2022. The analysis results show that the point value indicating the weaknesses of the journals in the questionnaire consisting of 250 questions varies between 48 and 106 points out of 250 points. The 48 weak points are the points equivalent to the open aspects of the journals indexed in SCOPUS and ESCI, which are the least deficient. 106 weakness is the point value of the weaknesses of the journals that are not scanned in the TR Index and other indexes with the highest number of shortcomings. The common weakness is the low citation rate because the publication language is not English in most of the journals. The score for a low citation rate is minus 9 in the SWOTs Analysis. This ratio is not the main reason for the reviewed journals' 48 to 106 points of weakness. Journals receive low scores in the Refereed Journal SWOTs Analysis due to the formal and academic deficiencies they can correct in the short and medium term. At the end of the Academic Journals SWOTs Analysis, the strengths and weaknesses are presented to the journals as a detailed report. Indicating the defects and strengthening them in the report allows the journal boards to take short and medium-term measures. In a process where quality processes gain importance, detecting deficiencies by subjecting the journals to external evaluation by experts will contribute to the quality of the journals in every aspect.If the journals publish in full compliance with the criteria of the TR Index, the total point value of their weaknesses should be between 50 and 60 points out of 250 points. The point value of the weak points in the SWOTs Analysis Reports of the journals selected by the TR Index shows this. The evaluation results showing the journals' weaknesses are below 50 points, indicating that those journals have risen to the level of acceptance from the SCOPUS and ESCI. The aim of editors and publishers is that their journals have no weaknesses, with a total score of 250. However, in academic publishing, the presence of different parties such as publisher-author-editor-referee in the process, the publication language being Turkish, the scientific quality of the article, and the quality of the reviewer reports not always at the same standard mean that journals can always have weaknesses of 0 to 40 points. In this respect, the SWOTs Analysis of journals scanned in AHCI, and SSCI indexes support this result. The important thing here is that the editors and publishers realize the weaknesses of their journals and implement the improvements related to them.
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The purpose of the article. The study of the peculiarities of the representation and existence of bibliographic and biobibliographic data on the background of the information society. The latter corresponds to the specific functioning of the electronic library, the structural part of the information model “Ukrainian Bibliography in Persons”. The research methodology consists in using of comparative and historical-logical methods. This methodological approach allows us to disclose and analyse certain models of information about the anthropological component in the social relations provided by libraries. Scientific novelty of the work consists in the special construction of the information model “UBP”, which emphasises biographical data, consistently associated with other sources of information, in particular with biobibliographic, biographical, and thesaurus as well. Conclusions. The development of the general concept of building an open, integrated electronic bibliographic resource “UBP” provides that it is appropriate to develop on a corporate basis a series of leading libraries that need to ensure a permanent match of software and hardware with modern standards, a unified and simple user interface and remote access support. It also helps develop criteria for the selection of documents, unified description, and the cataloging of electronic documents, correlation of the description with the original; information integrity and guaranties of its permanent and continuous delivery to consumers, constant content analysis of the online reference sources, scientific libraries of Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora websites as well, identify and digitise retrospective sources of Ukrainian bibliography.
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The purpose of the work. The article is devoted to the definition of the features and essence of documentation support of the legal sphere. Methodology consists in the application of methods of analysis, synthesis, comparative method, with the help of which scientific works related to the subject of scientific research are studied. Scientific novelty. Lexicographic sources, scientific works, and normative-legal acts in which questions within the limits of the chosen subject of research were considered are analysed. The absence of the results of a comprehensive study on the issue of documentation support of the legal sphere has been established. It is stated that this does not allow the allocation of communicative areas for its improvement and their implementation. For the first time, the characteristic features are determined and the concept of the communication system of the legal sphere is formulated. Conclusions. The following features of documentation support of the legal sphere are defined: its implementation by creating conditions for legal activity in accordance with specific needs and requirements; their localisation in the context of documenting legal information and organisation of work with legal documents; connection of documentation support of the legal sphere with document science, which has a clear communicative aspect and has an impact on the formation of legal relations; nomination of a legal document as a carrier and source of information of a legal nature and a phenomenon of the information and communication sphere, which has a general communicative and special legal functions. The definition of documentation support of the legal sphere is formulated. It is the process of creating appropriate conditions for documenting information of a legal nature and organisation of office work, necessary for the interaction between participants in the communication system of legal entities, as well as the emergence, change or termination of legal relations.
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The purpose of the work is to study the systematisation of forms and methods of functioning of electronic resources in Ukraine. Research methodology. When conducting the research, general scientific and special research methods have been used, including analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalisation, and systemstructural analysis. The scientific novelty of the work consists in generalising the issues of systematisation of the forms and methods of functioning of Ukrainian electronic resources. In particular, it has been defined that the specifics of changes in electronic resources influences the methods used to systematisingly catalogue, optimise, and unify information through changes in the mechanisms of implementation of the specified processes. Conclusions. In the course of the research, it has been determined that electronic resources form the collection of information in libraries in the form of full-text databases, electronic journals, image collections, multimedia in the form of CDs, tapes, the Internet, web technologies, electronic discussions, electronic news, data archives, email, even online chat. E-resources may be found in differentiated forms such as e-books, digital libraries, online journals, e-learning tutors, and online tests. It is established that such types of electronic resources are distinguished as local, network, and electronic resources of combined distribution. It has been found that the method of bibliographic description of electronic resources is determined in accordance with the type of access, taking into account the category of the object of description and its structure. It has been determined that electronic resources in the form of digitised documents are currently the most effective form of involving in the scientific circulation of huge arrays of documents for social and communication activities of institutions.
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An article is devoted to what is a crucial problem for every historian of the 19th and 20th centuries – historical rules of archival appraisal, that is, the determination as to which records that were created for practical reasons and current activities of state institutions in the past, should be protected permanently because of their historical value. The author focuses on criminal court records in light of the Polish interwar rules enacted by the Justice Minister in 1937. The mentioned regulation was the first on an analyzed matter in Polish legal tradition. It set the essential criteria and mechanisms for court records archival appraisal, also adopted in later rules on this topic from 1975, 1989, and 2004 (the latest remains in force to the present). Beyond this the author tries to explain why, in 1937, the Polish Ministry established rules that intended to permanently protect only a few groups of criminal court records as being historically valuable. He mainly analyzes the primary regulation draft from January of 1937, which intended to cover more groups of criminal court records for permanent archival protection. The paper tries to establish the reasons as to why those propositions were rejected. In the end, the author purposes to set in motion a discussion of the consequences that resulted from rules adopted in 1937 for current legal-historical or historical-criminological research.
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Not long ago, the authors of this paper came across a box containing a portion of the archive of Vincenzo Federici. This discovery gave rise to a research project that involved the location, analysis, and archival arrangement of the remaining part of the archive, and the study of sources found in other archives to reconstruct the many aspects of the activity of a multifaceted academic character. The Federici Papers are also interesting because on one hand they provide a unique vision of his connection with both prominent local figures and simple folk who could help the researcher in his quest. On the other hand, they offer a very interesting representation of a large part of the Italian central and southern regions, from the years before the Second World War to the later processes of rural migration and urban concreting in the sixties. What is really interesting is the opportunity to look, through Federici, at the cultural life of rural areas in the center and south of Italy before and after the Second World War.
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The present research aims to address the case study about the Serbian copyist anagnost Ioan through the use of the web-based repository. The same scribe's signature is observed in the manuscripts Dečani № 127 and № 119, which are also connected by the typology and a similar dating. The goal is to compare the distinctive features of both manuscripts and the handwriting of the 14th century scribes who contributed to the copying. In conducting this research, we will use a new descriptive scientific model, created and tested by the research project team.
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The article outlines the tenth phase of the development of the journal “Studia Historiae Scientiarum” (previously “Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU” / “Proceedings of the PAU Commission on the History of Science”). Information is provided on the following matters: the journal’s evaluation by the “ICI Master Journal List 2021” (released at the end of 2022), the evaluation by the CWTS Journal Indicators 2022 (5 June 2023), the evaluation by the SCImago Journal Rankings 2022 (based on the data from Scopus released on April 2023), and the evaluation by Scopus 2022 (released on 5 June 2023). Additionally, the number of foreign authors and reviewers of the current volume of the journal is quoted.
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This paper aims to present the history of a precious manuscript from the collections of the Kórnik Library – Autograf Kościuszki. Th e manuscript, written by Tadeusz Kościuszko in mid1793, contains Opis kampanii r. 1792 – a description of a campaign launched against Russia. Having analysed the manuscript and discussed all the eight editions of its text, the author of the article presents its history up until the death of Józef Dobek Dzierzkowski from Lviv (1830). He subsequently discusses a brief history of Tytus Działyński’s acquaintance with Wiktor Baworowski, as contained in their mutual correspondence, which discloses the further complex fate of Autograf Kościuszki – information on its subsequent owner and the circumstances in which it found its way into the collections of the Kórnik Library. Finally, all the copies of the manuscript known from literature are discussed. In the Annex, the author publishes inter alia the abovementioned correspondence between Działyński and Baworowski.
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