Restoration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Monuments. Digital Presentation and Practical Solutions

Author(s): Rodica-Mariana Ion,Sofia Teodorescu,Ioan Alin Bucurică,Mihaela-Lucia Ion,Daniela ŢURCANU-CARUŢIU / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

In the light of the recent concerns in the assessment of the new conservation treatments and of the development and application of methodologies, technologies, models and tools for CH damage assessment, this paper will deal with some innovative topics related to the digital models for protecting cultural heritage assets in front of various damages. Application of new technologies and digitalization of Basarabi monument is a preventive measure, helping us to build a virtual reconstructions as model for its potential reconstruction and preserving, to give access for the widest possible audience. It will be discussed the new technologies, as the non-destructive diagnosis technologies for the safe conservation a this historic, cultural and architectural – Basarabi churches. For the micro-climatic measurements, a number of sensors have been well distributed inside and outside and a diagram of humidity an temperature is evaluated. The practical examples of restoration and preservation and innovative solutions for the consolidation of this architectural monument, in relation with digitalization (by on-site and remotely data collection, virtual reality and documentation of the heritage). For a digital image of this monument, both a 3D laser scanner and some common digital photos are used, in order to obtain the 3D model of the church, and of the envelope of the church that should be applied over it to stop the seriously damage processes.

Endangered Photo Collections about the Participation of Pre-industrial Bulgaria in Three Wars in the Beginning of the 20th Century

Author(s): Valeri Katzounov / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The resources of the modern technology presuppose an initiative development in order to unite the efforts and activities for the collaboration in digitalization of the most important pieces of cultural and historical heritage. In a number of cases they have received the support of scientific projects for the creation of an open communication environment with a purpose of promoting the cultural values of the community. This report presents work on a research project for the conservation of cultural heritage at risk. The problem is with national priority and occupies a significant place in the European integration process. The two collections with which we apply in the British Library need special attention due to their poor structural condition even at the time of their transfer to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences more than 50 years ago. The first collection was created by Colonel Petar Darvingov and consists of 3100 black and white old photos, maps and sketches. The second collection of Aleksandar Bozhinov contains 2050 old photos, sketches, caricatures and cartoons with pencil and ink. The documents have an exceptional historical and informational value, but their physical conditions hinders their scientific use. The creation of digital copies will enable working with them, which in turn will protect the originals from further damage. The copied documents will build a distinct insurance fund and the institution will be able to broadcast scientific information through various forms of promotion of the fund – exhibitions, presentations, etc.

Digitization of Documentation at the Scientific Archive of the National Institute of Archeology with Museum

Author(s): Katrina Koleva,Kalina Sotirova-Valkova,Elena Naidenova / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

This paper is focused on the theory, standards and good practices in digitization of archival documents, as implemented in the Scientific Archive at the National Institute of Archeology with Museum (SA of NIAM-BAS). We explored metadata standards for archival documentation ISAD, EAD and “universal” cultural metadata standard Dublin Core trying to choose the best fit for representing of all the fields of SA of NIAM to de facto “standard”, used in NIAM-BAS since the 60s. The archival documentation of archeological museum is very specific and contains five different types of documents: scientific report, field diary, field inventory book, photographic documentation and graphic documentation. The results and current annotation specifics are explained. Perspectives for future information system development are outlined.

A Digitalization of the Museum Funds – a Possible Software for Scientific Passports

Author(s): Philip Mihaylov / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The digitalization of the museum funds is an important process in the realization of the most important functions of the museums in Bulgaria. The attempts for digitalization of the museum funds are accidental. This paper aims to present a development of Regional Historical Museum – Pernik for digital passporting of museum artifacts.

ПРОБЛЕМА ЦЕНТРАЛИЗАЦИИ МУЗЕЙНОГО ДЕЛА В ДИСКУССИЯХ 1917 ГОДА (ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ СОВЕЩАНИЯ В ИНСТИТУТЕ ИСТОРИИ ИСКУССТВ)

Author(s): Vitaliy Gennadievich Ananev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

The paper is devoted to the problem of centralization and unification of museum affairs in the professional debates during 1917. The main issue is analysis of the archival materials of the counsel on museum affairs and protection of monuments, which was held in the spring – summer of 1917 at the Institute for History of Arts (Petrograd). The author analyzes the main reports on this problem made by such prominent museum figures as A.A. Miller, P.P. Weiner, and N.M. Mogilyansky. A connection is established between their content and the general level of museology at that time. The author establishes a link of these ideas to some initiatives in the cultural politics of the post-October period. During this period, there are two main issues in the framework of this discussion. These ideas are linked to some initiatives in the cultural politics of the post-October period. There are two main issues in the framework of this discussion during the period under consideration. The first question is creation of a government body to manage all museum affairs of the country. A.A. Miller and N.M. Mogilyansky write about the structure of museum management. P.P. Weiner argues for the body of monument protection. The second question is redistribution of museum collections, evaluation of their composition on the basis of subject matter disciplines. On the one hand, these discussions show the high level of development of museology in Russia in the early 20th century. On the other hand, they show that the discourse of museology as an independent academic discipline has not yet received sufficient development. Based on the Russian material here, we can trace the transition from the pre-scientific stage of museology to the empirically descriptive stage.

Prace drobne: „Bibliografia Chorzowa” i „Bibliografia Bytomia” jako sposób na zachowanie w pamięci piśmienniczego dziedzictwa lokalnej społeczności

Author(s): Edyta Kosik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The article provides an explanation of the notion of cultural heritage and regional literature. It presents the need and the purposes of the protection of regional literature i.e. the literary heritage of a local community and it demonstrates the means to preserve the memory of the aforementioned heritage i.e. the establishment of a bibliography. With the use of the method of analysis and criticism of literature two examples of bibliographies were described – “Bibliografia Chorzowa” and “Bibliografia Bytomia”. The article discusses the classification of the type of bibliography which these works represent and adduces a definition of such a type of bibliography. The purpose of the establishment of these bibliographies, their scope and arrangement were also described. There is information about the type of documents which both bibliographies register and the period which the publications mentioned therein represent. Also the forms in which both bibliographies are published – a non-serial publication, an electronic document, a database. The places in which these bibliographies may be consulted were indicated.

Generation of Educational 3D Maze Games for Carpet Handicraft in Bulgaria

Author(s): Boyan Bontchev,Radina Panayotova / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

Serious video games applied for learning purposes play a significant and important role for the modern technology enhanced education. The paper presents an educational 3D maze video game dedicated to the development of carpet fabrication in Bulgaria since 17th century until modern days. The game was automatically generated by means of declarative description of the maze processed by an open software tool named Maze Builder and built on top of Unity game platform and specially designed for automatic generation and easy modification of maze video games. There are explained the maze game design process, the educational tasks embedded into the maze, and a practical experiment conducted with the generated game. The initial results obtained from these experiments are very positive and encouraging with regard of playability of such educational mazes and, as well, concerning their easy and straightforward generation by educators, who are not IT professionals.

3D-Reconstruction of the Complex Stuccoes from Patrimony Buildings

Author(s): Rodica-Mariana Ion,Valentin Gurgu,Ioan Alin Bucurică,Sofia Teodorescu,Mihaela-Lucia Ion,Dana Postolache,Ioan Darida / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The paper deals with 3D scanning techniques and instruments to survey the complex stuccoes from the architectural building Nanu-Muscel from Bucharest. EXAscan Portable 3D Laser Scanner has been used to exploit the advantages of the 3D surveying techniques and produce digital models and other geometric representations useful for the protection of historic architectures and a correct solution for their restoration. After the parameterization, the scanning of two stucco-objects surface yielded to a network of points. The program analyzes the points and joins them, so the final result being the scanned object in electronic format (digitized), by "Digitized Shape Editor" module in the Catia program. The not useful surfaces have been removed and for the symmetrical reconstruction the mirroring operation was applied.

Presenting Bulgarian Cultural and Historical Sites with Panorama Pictures

Author(s): Detelin Luchev,Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Radoslav Pavlov,Lilia Pavlova,Zsolt László Márkus,Gábor Kaposi,Tibor Szkaliczki,Miklós Veres / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The paper presents the application of panorama pictures for presenting cultural heritage sites in an attractive way. High-resolution interactive spherical panorama pictures of several famous locations (churches, museum, bridges) in Veliko Tarnovo region, Bulgaria, and presentation tools on both – mobile application and web pages, were created in a cooperation of MTA SZTAKI and IMI BAS under a joint research project. The paper introduces the latest developments related to the integration of the panorama picture viewer on multiple platforms and specific implementations of panorama pictures presentations.

Thematic Walk and Competition in Budapest

Author(s): Ambrus Gönczi,Zsolt László Márkus,Gábor Kaposi,Tibor Szkaliczki,Miklós Veres / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The paper presents a guided smartphone walk (Attila József Literary Walk) and its latest supplements, based in district 9 of Budapest. The thematic guided walk developed 2 years ago covers the scenes of the childhood of the poet Attila József. Several interactive games related to the life of the poet were developed and integrated into the application. This April, the developers of the walk prepared and arranged a special orientation field competition based on the mobile games for students studying in the district.

An E-Learning Environment – a Tool for Presentation of Knowledge about Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Sites

Author(s): Stefka Kovacheva,Ludmila Dimitrova / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The article describes an interactive software environment for learning as an accessible tool to supplement the learning content. The environment, under development, is in line with the State Educational Standards (SES) of educational content for the cycle Social Sciences and Civic Education. The E-learning environment uses a database those objects describe Bulgarian architectural heritage under the protection of UNESCO. The project focuses on understanding by design of new learning content and its application to educational courses on the history and culture of Bulgaria.

Deep Belief Networks for Multimodal, Images-based Non Contact Material Characterization

Author(s): Magdelena Stoyanova,Lilia Pavlova / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

Our growing cognisance about the chemo-physical properties of electromagnetic waves and of their interaction with various materials provides expanding range of possibilities for quantification and non contact material characterization even in difficult to computation, « non-standard » domains as this of the cultural heritage. This review - thematically part of the IFIDA project dedicated to digitization of archaeometric and conservation-restoration praxis - deals with the possibilities latest neuroinformatic methods offer for a more efficient and fast interrogation, understanding and classification of multi-modal spectral records of paintings on various supports. The workflow followed during their routine non destructive (ND) analysis by human experts is described in terms of specific technical characteristics, research objectives and concrete application for the artworks' characterization as a prototype to simulate artificially. References to techniques for high semantic level information extraction from low-level features are suggested. The strengths and limitations in application of Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for compression, visualization and data recognition are also considered. Examples of most appropriate architectures and topological maps of Deep Learning Networks for interpretation of UV, IR, XR, β, γ and CT records performing simple characterization and classification tasks - from single layer perceptron to multi-layer deep belief neural networks for unlabelled data - are presented and explained.

Virtual Museum of Russian Bells in Bulgaria

Author(s): Galina Todorova Bogdanova,Todor Yordanov Todorov,Stefka Kancheva / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The aim of our research is to trace and passport the Russian bells in Bulgaria on the way of the Russian troops from the Danube to Shipka, given in gratitude for the help provided during the Russian-Turkish War (1877-1878). We base our re-search on previous similar projects that we have successfully completed. In this paper we formulate stages of our project and present current situation in their completeness.

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.

The Eight National Information Day: Open Science, Open Data, Open Access

Author(s): Peter L. Stanchev,Zlatina Karova,Yanita Zherkova,Radoslav Pavlov,Georgi Simeonov / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

The paper draws current state of Bulgarian Open access (OA) activities and discussion points for the Eight National Information Day: Open Science, Open Data, and Open Access

Valstybės archeologijos komisija ir dvarų kultūrinis paveldas 1919–1921 metais: tarp gelbėjimo ir konfiskavimo

Author(s): Irmina Abramovienė,Kęstutis Raškauskas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 68/2017

This publication presents documents illustrating the efforts of the State Archaeological Commission to nationalize the cultural heritage of the estates from November 1919 to April 1921. Director Eduardas Volteris and his collaborators Paulius Galaunė, Konstantinas Jablonskis, Stasys Brašiškis, and Valerijonas Drevinskis visited at least fifteen palaces. Their owners lived in France or Poland, while their estates were supervised by their representatives who were only partially capable of preserving the valuables left behind in these uninhabited palaces. Because of these visits and expeditions, works of art, libraries, and family archives were taken from the palaces to Kaunas and Šiauliai, where they were transferred to archives, museums, and libraries.

Николай Вуков, Светла Казаларска, Иглика Мишкова. (Съст.) Музеят отвъд нацията. Дебати в музеологията. София, 2016

Author(s): Lozanka Peycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

„Времена и хора – живите традиции на България“ – дългоочакваната представителна изложба на Националния етнографски музей

Author(s): Simeon Nedkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

Нови постъпления във фотоархива на ИЕФЕМ

Author(s): Ani Kisyova,Elka Mincheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Jubileusz biblioteki w Eutin i jej zbiory literatury podróżniczej

Author(s): Włodzimierz Zientara / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The Eutin library celebrated its modest jubilee last year but at the same time it draws attention to the 25 years of the existence of a scientific unit dealing with the history and culture of traveling. In a tiny town in the north of Germany, the library stores the attention-grabbing collection of 18 thousand volumes of diaries, memories, original manuscripts and prints, a collection of maps and atlases (over 5,000) on various information carriers. What is also available there is Wolfgang Grieg’s constantly updated bibliography of literature and sources found in other collections, currently including 24 thousand titles.