Presentation of UNESCO Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Sites as Knowledge System in a Learning Environment

Author(s): Stefka Kovacheva / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The article describes cultural heritage sites in Bulgaria, under the protection of UNESCO, as database elements that can be used for e-learning. The learning environment will motivate intellectual inquiry and, through organizing the methods of collecting and managing information, will be created cultural knowledge for existing and new sites, which will be evaluated and promoted. The environment serves the State Educational Standards (SES) of educational content for the cycle Social Sciences and Civic Education. The established database presents structured, scientifically proven and didactically correct knowledge, and is a conceptual framework of how sites can be viewed, perceived and "assembled". For the users (learners) the information about sites is a basis for research and a communication tool. By interpreting the cultural significance of artifacts, they structure information based on the attributes of the database. The features of the sites are a carrier of memorable and enriching information. The meaning is not found only in a specific object, but is created from the interaction between user, message and environment.

Towards Better Presenting and Searching of Bells Knowledge

Author(s): Nikolay Noev,Galina Todorova Bogdanova,Todor Yordanov Todorov / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

This paper presents digital knowledge including context-based annotations of objects in the field of cultural heritage. Some major problems and solutions of digitalization of items, their processing, storing and organizing them in a repository are highlighting. We show how graph databases could be used as data management platform.

Опитът на Регионалния исторически музей „Стою Шишков“ в създаване и поддържане на Научен архив.

Author(s): Vanya Yordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

Charakterystyka i opracowanie zbioru archiwalnych negatywów w Bibliotece Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku

Author(s): Piotr Giziński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2018

The purpose of the article is to present a method of the treatment of the collection of archive negatives of the State Institution of Higher Education of Visual Arts in Gdańsk by the library of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. The article discusses the author’s own experience in the work on the photographical material and the relevant problems which were experienced by the library staff. One applied an experimental method in research. The experiences which were collected and described in the article may serve the task of the development of one’s own methods and may prompt librarians to engage in the treatment of photographical collections in their libraries. The process of the digitalisation of photographs sparked a great interest of the users of the library. When one initiates the scanning of materials, one may encounter logistic problems (e.g. the setting up of a workroom), financial problems (e.g. the purchase of a scanner and the relevant materials), also the methodology itself may become an obstacle. It is necessary to make a comprehensive inventory of photographs so that eventually they may be rendered accessible to the users of a reading room. This will contribute to the enhancement of the familiarisation with the history of the University and its influence upon the development of art in the region, and it may also influence the enhancement of the prestige of the scholarly institution. The treatment of a photograph is an interesting and also a difficult task, which requires a great deal of humility, dedication and patience on the part of the researcher.

Prikazi i vijesti

Author(s): Branko Đaković,Ana Mlinar,Vesna Turčin,Olga Supek,Ksenija Marković,Zorica Šimunović-Petrić,Maja Kožić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 6-7/1984

1. Osvrt na zbirku Gospodarstvo u Etnografskom muzeju u Zagrebu, by: Branko Đaković 2. Pregled stručnog rada Regionalnog zavoda za zaštitu spomenika kulture u Zagrebu na obradi i zaštiti tradicijske arhitekture, by: Ana Mlinar 3. VIII Megunaroden simpozium za Balkanskiot folklor. Ohrid 7—8 Juli 1983., by: Vesna Turčin 4. Prvi zajednički kongres Jugoslavenskih etnologa i folklorista, Rogaška Slatina 4—8. X 1983., by: Olga Supek-Zupan 5. Izvještaj o radu sa Savjetovanja konzervatora Jugoslavije (1983. g.), by: Ksenija Marković 6. Review of: “Etnološka istraživanja 2”, Etnografski muzej u Zagrebu; Katica Benc-Bošković, “Konavle, tekstilno rukotvorstvo i narodna nošnja”, Zagreb 1983., 182 pp.; by: Zorica Šimunović-Petrić 7. Review of: “Zbornik za narodni život i običaje južnih Slavena”, knjiga 49, JAZU, Zagreb 1983., 505 pp.; by: Zorica Šimunović-Petrić 8. Review of: Dragoslav Antonijević, “Obredi i običaji balkanskih stočara”, SAZU, Beograd, 1982.; by: Maja Kožić 9. Review of: Branko Ćupurdija, “Agrarna magija v tradicionalnoj kulturi Srba”, SAZU, Beograd, 1982.; by: Maja Kožić 10. Review of: Irma Krstonjević, “Čobanske igre”, Županja, 1982.; by: Maja Kožić

Garić-grad: pregled tehničke dokumentacije

Author(s): Milan Pezelj / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 4/2011

Technical documentation is a necessary prerequisite for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage. For the purposes relating to Garić-grad, it has been developed since the beginning of the 1960s. Parts of interdependent documentation have emerged depending on the priorities regarding either the protection or the establishment of the facts necessary for its implementation. The documentation relating to the state as found, as well as to the archaeological and conservational explorations, tends often to intertwine with the projects and the implementation documentation; this is primarily conditioned by the construction state of Garić-grad. Due to the fact that the organising, conducting and financing of the protection and preservation works on this kind of cultural heritage are exceptionally demanding, there had even been disagreements within the profession. The initial major impetus and enthusiasm died off in the early 1980s, much before the complete and only logical restoration of the central tower. This situation had a direct impact on its catastrophic present state. A new cycle of conducting exploration works and developing documentation necessary for launching the reparation process began in 2009, when the programme of the Croatian Conservation Institute was included in the regular financing plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

Католическите мъченици на България (1944 – 1989 г.) – от политическа репресия към религиозен култ

Author(s): Iglika Mishkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Магическото тайнство на дантелата. Изложба „Кой създава и кой използва дантела“, Национален етнографски музей, 7 февруари – 20 май 2019

Author(s): Elka Mincheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

Нестор Марков и неговият принос в чуждоезиковото обучение в края на XIX и началото на XX век

Author(s): Maria Lovdzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The text deals with the life and activities of Nestor Markov - one of the most famous Bulgarian enlighteners after the Liberation.

Професор Марин Дринов за палеографията като помощна историческа наука

Author(s): Desislava Kostadinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

As a historical scholar, Professor Marin Drinov attached great importance to the auxiliary historical sciences and especially to paleography, which deals with written sources for medieval history. As a researcher throughout his life, he studied a vast amount of written documents. His desire was to encourage his contemporaries in Bulgaria to start collecting such sources from the Bulgarian lands. To this end, in the late 1870s, he compiled a short “Guide”, which published the magazine “Letostruy”, in which he gave brief guidelines on how to carry out this activity.

NAUČNI SKUP KULTURNO-ISTORIJSKO NASLIJEĐE SREBRENICE KROZ VIJEKOVE

Author(s): Almira Bećirović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 4/2011

U Srebrenici je 26. oktobra 2011. godine održan naučni simpozij pod nazivom „Kulturno-istorisko naslijeđe Srebrenice kroz vijekove“.

Muzykalia po dawnej Wałbrzyskiej Orkiestrze Górniczej (Waldenburger Bergkapelle) ze zbiorów Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie

Author(s): Lidia Bialucha / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03 (42)/2019

In the article, the author investigates 24 musical manuscripts belonging to former Miners’ Orchestra of Wałbrzych (Waldenburger Bergkapelle), which used the sources for concerts of the orchestra. The analysed manuscripts have not yet been researched or catalogued in RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) database before. The ensemble’s repertoire was analysed and the collection’s characteristics, including copyists, watermarks and stamps, were examined. It allowed to assess the provenience of the manuscripts and make certain remarks about the type of repertoire played by Waldenburger Bergkapelle. The results of the analysis were presented in the context that can be found in secondary sources, widely describing the activity of the orchestra. The author also carried on cataloguing in Warsaw University Library, creating the catalogue in the Muscat RISM system. Considering the numbers on shelfmarks, it can be assumed that the original collection contained circa one hundred of musical sources. However, only a small part of them is known and catalogued. Therefore, the knowledge of the collection remains incomplete and is worth further investigation.

Arnold Bartetzky, Nation - Staat - Stadt. Architektur, Denkmalpflege und visuelle Geschichtskultur vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert

Author(s): Beate Störtkuhl / Language(s): German Issue: 3/2014

Review of: Arnold Bartetzky: Nation – Staat – Stadt. Architektur, Denkmalpflege und visuelle Geschichtskultur vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. (Visuelle Geschichtskultur, Bd. 9.) Böhlau. Köln u.a. 2012. 276 S., zahlr. Ill. ISBN 978-3-412-20819-6. (€ 39,90.). Beate Störtkuhl

Zbirka slika fr. Vinka Marije Draganje u splitskom dominikanskom samostanu

Author(s): Ivana Svedružić Šeparović,Lana Kekez,Kristina Krivec,Julija Baćak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 42-43/2017

37 canvases by Fr. Vinko Marija Draganja are kept at the Split Dominican Monastery. Fr. Draganja (Split, 20th February 1856 – Split, 6th May 1926) was a Dominican friar and a painter. He was intorduced to Fr. Celestin Medović during his Novitiate year in Dubrovnik, with whom he exchanged experiences. During his senior years at grammar school, Fr. Draganja attended painting classes under the guidance of Dr Emil Vacchetti, who also taught Emanuel Vidović. Then, as an apprentice at Saint Francis’ Monastery in Zadar, he was taught by the academy-trained painter Fr. Josip Rossi. He continued his education at the Florence Academy of Art and, upon graduation, returned to his hometown as the first academy-trained painter. In his lifetime Fr. Draganja never arranged a stand-alone exhibition, but exhibited some of his paintings at exhibitions arranged at People’s Square and Saint Catherine’s Church. After his death, his paintings appeared occasionaly at local and national retrospective exhibitions and his opus was nearly forgotten. Movable objects from the Saint Catherine’s Church and the Dominican monastery were catalogued. The process itself, which was conducted within the scope of regular activities by the Ministry of Culture - Conservation Department in Split, revealed the opportunity to reassess and restore Fr. Draganja’s opus and, finally, to register his paintings as the part of cultural heritage. Conservation-restoration procedures that had been performed on 36 paintings provided thorough analysis of Fr. Draganja’s artistry and specific painting technique. His painting technique and selection of materials remained constant whereas the qualities of his paintings varied. The main objective of the procedures was to stabilize the layers of paint and then to restore deteriorated and lost parts. The procedures were based on the principles of moderate restoration-conservation intervention which did not interfere with the genuine qualities of the paintings. In the process of conservation, the restorers concluded that similar procedures had already been performed on ten paintings. The analysis of materials and methods used enabled them to date the procedures at the second half of the 20th century. Those procedures were also based on the restoration concept of mild intervention. The conservation-restoration process allowed understanding of Fr. Draganja’s works of art, which facilitated the very attribution of the painting Smrt sv. Dominika (the death of St. Dominic) to the artist himself.

Bulgarian Icons in Wikidata and EDM

Author(s): Vladimir Alexiev,Plamen Tarkalanov,Nikola Georgiev,Lilia Pavlova / Language(s): English Issue: X/2020

We briefly describe Wikidata, its importance for GLAM institutions, iconographic authorities in Mix-n-Match. Then we propose an Icon Knowledge Graph Model comprising the entities: iconographer, iconographic school, herminia, icon, measurements, material, technique, iconographic subject (saint or a title of the Virgin Mary), location (city, monastery, church, museum), scientific article, academic journal, issue, links to LOD datasets (e.g. VIAF, Getty AAT, ISBN, ISSN, academia.edu). Then we introduce the Virtual Encyclopedia of Bulgarian Icons (BIDL) and describe how we ex-ported it to Wikidata, while coreferencing to iconographers, saints, locations; and the extra info we added for such entities. Finally, we describe a conversion to the Europeana Data Model, including details such as links to Wikidata, bilingual descriptions, language tags, providers. The online version of the paper includes live links; the accompanying presentation includes more images and queries.

Beneficial Learning Observation of a Virtual Museum for Ancient History

Author(s): Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Lubomir Zlatkov,Lilia Pavlova,Detelin Luchev,Maxim Goynov / Language(s): English Issue: X/2020

For a long time, cultural heritage has been preserved in archiving institutions such as museums, libraries, galleries, and restoration laboratories, resulting in access and review limitations. Digital technologies are introducing new solutions for documentation, maintenance and distribution of this valuable treasure. Among these new technologies are virtual museums, which have already proven their worth as a contemporary solution for attractive presentation of cultural archives. This article aims to present an innovative virtual museum, managing diverse collections of digital objects, organized in various ways by a complex specialized functionality. We focus on tools for improved content observation and enhanced learning experience, giving new solutions for effective use of virtual museum content for learning purposes.

Riti i humbur i Llazoreve i “gjallë” ndër arkivat e numerizuara

Author(s): Jonida Sela / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2019

Together with the rites of the spring cycle, such as Summer Day, St. George, Novruz, Rusticat, etc., it was practiced the rite of Llazore. This rite with pagan characteristics, often encountered in rural areas, is no longer practiced. This has happened due to a number of reasons that have affected the intangible cultural heritage. Despite this, we have managed to preserve and inherit through the archives many songs, sung dances and folkloric motives of this rite through in a digital form, at the archive of the National Center of Folkloristic Activities and the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Research (Academy of Albanological Studies). This paper will preview the data that we find in the digital archives, where the rite of Llazore is included, treating this rite in the context of artistic performance. At the same time, we will try to reconstruct the rite, addressing the stages and form of organization of the rite. We will try to achieve this by comparing the archival material with the empirical data we have to collected during our expeditions focused on the rite of Llazore.

Mendimi arkivor shqiptar. Probleme dhe zgjidhje teorike – praktike.

Author(s): Enkelejda Sejdini (Balla) / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2019

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.

Përqasje historike e zhvillimit arkivor në Kosovë

Author(s): Fikrie Berisha / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2019

The birth of documents has historically occurred when writing was born as a way of communication in society, as an objective requirement of social development and as a need for the functioning and solution of various human problems. The first documents are found early, sometime in the third millennium BC in the slave-owning states of the ancient East, then later in ancient Greece and Rome. While in the Albanian territories we find documents and archives in very early periods, since the ancient Illyrian cities, such as stone inscriptions, various chronicles or documents which protected the interests of slave owners and were kept mainly in libraries. Meanwhile, when it comes to archives and archival service in today's territory of Kosovo during the time of the Illyrians, namely the Dardan tribe, which was located in the territory of today's Kosovo and not only, we have no written evidence that speaks of archives and for staff who have manipulated written documents. We find such traces in various inscriptions, in stone inscriptions, in cemetery monuments, stelae, inscriptions dedicated to the gods, votes, on stones, etc. The first concrete efforts in terms of archives and archival service in Kosovo were made after the Second World War, the establishment of the new communist government within the former Socialist People's Federation of Yugoslavia, of which Kosovo was an administrative part, specifically in in 1951 when the Provincial State Archive was established.

Koleksionet latine në Bibliotekën Kombëtare të Kosovës

Author(s): Izet Abdyli / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2019

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.