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The article analyses the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the basic documents related to it with a view of analyzing of the content of the notion of community within these documents. The author finds the lack of a stable definition of community and at the same time outlines its basic characteristics as they are present in the mentioned above documents.
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The article offers a study of horror stories in urban legends from Bulgaria and the Czech Republic in comparative aspect. It proposes a specific classification, which groups horror stories as follows: 1) mysterious events and encounters with supernatural beings, which neither harm, nor help the participants; 2) omens or encounters with supernatural beings, which cause death or other harm to the participants; 3) mysterious signs or encounters with supernatural beings, which help people; 4) evocation of spirits; 5) crime stories: murders or harm – with or without deliberate intention; 6) rumours; 7) parodic horror stories. Parallels drawn between particular stories from the two countries point to the existence of a common folkloric substratum that manifests their universal character and international distribution. Largely, the motifs in those stories result from social life and specific social practices of modern times, but some also have deeply archaic origins.
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The introduction of new bibliometric indicators for measuring scientific work puts the university and scientific libraries in Bulgaria in the need of creation of databases with citations of professors and scientists in every scientific organization. Each country creates its own citation index. The purpose of the article is to analyse existing bibliographic practises for classifying scientific references and the examine the question for the creation of a National platform to unite them, as well as creating a National Reference Register, in particular one for social studies. It is time for us to decide who will manage the combined citation document resources and how to create a Bulgarian index for scientific citation or a National Citation Index, in general and one for the social studies in particular. Social studies are less represented than the other branches of science, for example, in platforms like Scopus and Web of Science, which are the most influential platforms in the world and publishing and citation in them has more weight in the formation of the minimal national requirements for academic growth. I am using the historical approach and comparative analysis to show the practical experience of countries that have created such Registers and have achieved excellent results. I also offer for discussion a model to build a hierarchical structure for exchange of quoted data. The university libraries need exact criteria which citation to list and how the Bulgarian index for scientific citation in general will be formed, as well as the one for social studies.
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The article systematizes information about the current cultural heritage programs in the Bulgarian higher education area. The data shows that in eleven Bulgarian universities a diploma of cultural heritage can be obtained.17 master's and 3 bachelor's programs prepare over 500 students a year. Two doctoral programs are also accredited. The rich variety of curricula is an objective result of the complex structure of cultural heritage in itself. However, it is also an indicator for the fragmentation of the higher education system in Bulgaria. The conclusion proposes approaches to overcoming the mentioned fragmentation, as the interdisciplinarity of the scientific field requires pooling of competencies and efforts for better results.
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The article presents the problem of archives as a scientific laboratory and a challenge for researchers in the digital society. In terms of content there are two thematic focuses of the study: digital transformation of archives and their information resources; the researcher like a user of retrospective documentary information in a digital environment. Analysis of the problems and challenges that the archival institutions and modern researchers face in the era of digital civilization is made.
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The article traces chronologically the most important moments of the development of the library at the Institute for Historical Studies – BAS from its establishment until 2020. Facts are collected about the state of the library fund in different years until today; the conclusions are illustrated with diagrams. Attention is paid to the work of the library nowadays and the services it provides. The separate collections and some valuable editions that the library owns are briefly revealed.
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The stated purpose of this article is to sensitize the specialists and responsible institutions on some conservation interventions that are required in the current situation, years after the first emergency interventions started in 1980 at Voroneț.
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Today, cities are working on becoming more adapted to urban change and sustainable challenges. To do so, many have undertaken projects, supported by governments, intended to digitalize the interactions, optimize local resources, and become smart accordingly (e.g., Barcelona, Aarhus, and Oslo, etc.). Although most smart city initiatives follow top-down mechanisms, we notice interestingly the emergence of bottom-up processes and self-organized actions. In fact, cities are complex systems that possess qualities of self-organization [1]. Self-organized stakeholders (e.g., citizens, universities, private/public firms, NGOs), through informal collaboration, are capable of conducting innovative projects leading to a smart city. This dynamic has enabled citizens to be more involved in policymaking and to impose, using ICT-based solutions, a new model of governance (i.e., smart governance). In this regard, this conceptual paper contributes to the smart city literature by highlighting the role of informal collaboration between stakeholders in implementing smart initiatives. Eventually, our research will provide guidance in designing smart cities and serve as basis for future empirical studies.
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The focus of this work-in-progress paper is on strategy tools, which is a topic that lately has received a lot of interest in practice. There are various streams of literature of strategy tools, ranging from traditional company-related strategy tools to more flexible and individual-based strategy tools. This paper intends to provide some initial insights into this issue. The aim of this study is to explore managerial perceptions of strategy tools as facilitators of the development of business relationships and networks. Many small companies active in the segment of information and communication technology demonstrate difficulties in terms of expanding their business and increasing the product and service portfolio. In this context, this study aims to apply strategic tools and business model in a micro-segment of the software industry inserted into a huge market competition and low entry barriers. The research questions are: a) What are the perceptions of managers of strategy tools as facilitators of developing business relationships and b) how can combinations of strategy tools facilitate the development of different kinds of business relationships? In this paper, the first research question is initially explored empirically. The empirical part of the paper is based on qualitative case studies of ten companies, and more particularly on the perceptions of the managers within these companie. Businesses in all sectors are facing a situation where technology is changing the landscape around them, transitioning from the back room of an organization into the hands of customers, employees and society. Faster development cycles, disruptive business models and increased competition are highlighting the increasingly essential role of technology and automation in business. This means that the success of business relies heavily on the optimal utilization of technology.
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What we see around us and how today will affect tomorrow is all depending on our creativity. Our intelligent life is inspired from our imagination. Since the world exists the main source of ideas has derived from the fairy tales and fables that humanity learned in its infancy. These brainstorming sources of ideas are constantly used by the science and technology to move our life forward through embodying our dreams for freedom, justice, democracy and sustainability through smart concepts and solutions. The future is here inspired by myths and legends and represented by Michio Kaku in his futuristic visions. Our proposed work is to visualise some of these ideas into smart concepts for the future. Our panel will discuss and demonstrate how an idea can transform storytelling into a VR concept and will shed light onto the rise of some of the most ground-breaking emerging technologies.
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As drivers of economic and social growth, and engines of innovation, cities develop urban intelligence relying on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a source to ensure high quality of life and improve processes and services. Smart cities and smart communities help build urban intelligence within cities aiming to proceed towards urban sustainability and promoting innovation and knowledge creation. Cities identify smart and intelligent solutions to facing and solving urban problems, by using the potential offered by information technology to drive innovative processes and proceed towards sustainable urban growth. Information technology helps cities to rediscover the meaning of community as an organizational framework that fosters collaboration within urban spaces. Local government, business, education and citizens understand the potential of information technology in order to transform the community in significant ways through collaboration. Intelligent cities as communities promote technological innovation and encourage people to work for achieving urban sustainability. As engines of innovation, cities as smart communities proceed towards urban intelligence by developing the urban community as an intelligent city which rediscovers a pathway for growth and knowledge, innovation and value creation.
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The article concerns the Themerson Archive in Warsaw, which for nearly three decades was prepared for publication by art critic Jasia Reichardt. She not only sorted out these collections, but also acted as an intermediary between the artists, the Archive, and the audience. In this case, the curatorship of the archive is an effort to bring the individual parts of the collection closer to the audience by creating a narrative about the history of individual artifacts. The curator has bestowed on the materials a broad biographical context. In her article, Honorata Sroka comes up with the idea of the curatorship of archival collections. She develops a specific approach to curatorship by describing Reichardt’s exhibition methods, i.e., the latter’s strategies of presentation and presence in the Themerson Archive. Sroka moves away from the classic approaches to the theory of archives by regarding the curator’s activities not only as attempts to limit the public’s access to knowledge about the artists and the desire to guard their collections, but rather as organizational efforts aimed at formulating a coherent method for the presentation of materials. Moreover, Sroka emphasizes the fact that Reichardt’s experience as a long-time curator of art exhibitions, the author of numerous articles, and the director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London has allowed her to make a highly original contribution to the field of archival studies.
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The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the possibilities of using the electronic "Ukrainian National Biographical Archive" (UNBA) in the field of humanitarian knowledge based on a specific applied historical and psychological study. The research methodology is a combination of general scientific methods of analysis of theoretical material and statistical and comparative methods of analysis of specific empirical data, their systematisation and generalisation. The scientific novelty of the research is characterised by the use of information technologies, large volumes of data, and methods of statistical processing in the traditionally humanitarian field of research, which is characterised by a predominantly descriptive approach. Conclusions. On the example of the proposed study, an approach is presented that will allow to significantly expand the possibilities of both specific biographical investigations and studies of socio-historical, ethnological, and historical-psychological directions. Large-scale volumes and detailed structuring of the biographical archive (UNBA) according to its thematic, chronological, and gender distribution allows presenting the system itself as the core of the scientific activity of the virtual historical and biographical laboratory. Analogues of this approach do not exist in Ukraine today due to the uniqueness of the biographical archive (UNBA) itself, which combines the widest possible coverage of national biographical material with its detailed structuring. As a perspective of further research in the presented direction, we see the study of the dynamics of changing the archetypal features of the generalised image of Ukrainians in the temporal perspective. This includes answers to the question: how were the spheres of social activity of men and women correlated in different periods, the scaling of which is possible from centuries to one generation, i.e. 20-30 years? How statistically significant are these changes? We consider another interesting direction to be the identification of archetypal characteristics of Ukrainians depending on the places of social activity, birth, etc. – the so-called geographical rubrics.
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fessional programs of the specialty 029 "Information, library and archival work", which are implemented in higher education institutions of Ukraine. The research methodology is based on an organic combination of the principles of scientific objectivity and systematicity, the application of the structural-functional approach, and the use of general scientific methods of scientific knowledge (cognitive, analysis and synthesis, statistical), content analysis of OPP in institutions of tertiary education. The scientific novelty of the presented work consists in identifying in the information system "Vstup.OSVITA.UA" a list of higher education institutions of which bachelor's and master's degrees in specialty 029 IBAS are trained, in the analysis of introduced educational and professional programs, in determining their traditional and innovative orientations. Conclusions. The training of specialists in specialty 029 "Information, library and archival affairs" is carried out in higher education institutions of Ukraine under various educational and professional programs, which attests to the modernisation and improvement of the training of specialists in the specified field and the orientation of tertiary education to European integration processes. It was found that within the specialty, 63 OPPs for bachelors and 37 for masters were introduced into the educational process, of which 25 were accredited at the bachelor's level and 14 – at the master's level. Part of the OPPs is waiting for accreditation, according to their schedule. Among the OPPs presented by higher education institutions, the most common are "Documentation and information activities" (15 – bachelor's and 12 – master's) and "Information, library and archival affairs" (17 and 12, respectively). The analysis of the rest of the programs (31 – bachelor's and 13 – master's) showed that in 12 bachelor's and 10 master's programs, key words in the names of the programs are the document science component, such as "document science support", "document science management" processes", "documentation support", "document implementation", and others. One master's program and two bachelor's programs are based on librarian training of specialists, as evidenced by their names. The specified programs have their roots in the training of specialists in the field of document studies and librarianship, which indicates their traditional character. Part of the programs is aimed at training specialists in the information field. Under the influence of total digitisation, accents and priorities in social life are unconditionally changing, which is reflected in the modernisation of the educational process, the actualisation of innovative OPPs as a reflection of the in-demand synthesised knowledge.
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The main results of the work of the team of Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the project CLaDA-BG – the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Research e-Infrastructure for Re-sources and Technologies in Favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, Part of the EU Infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, will be presented during the Information Day within the DiPP2023 conference. The main emphasis will be placed on current and ongoing developments and implementations of CultIS - a web-based software platform for the intelligent digital management and presentation of large data sets and knowledge from the field of culture, humanities and social sciences.
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Radio is the oldest electronic media that is the first to reflect technological leaps in the media world. At the end of 2022, the technology based on artificial intelligence makes a qualitative leap and perceptibly enters all spheres of social and cultural life. This is also the period in which artificial intelligence begins to create individual broadcasts and later - entire radio programs. The potential of this new technology to replace the human factor is substantial. This research focuses on the future of radio and the impact of AI technology on radio producing.
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