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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.
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Quantitative bibliometric indicators are widely used to evaluate the performance of scientists. However, traditional indicators do not much rely on the analysis of the processes intended to measure and the practical goals of the measurement. In this study, I propose a simple framework to measure and predict an individual researcher’s scientific performance that attempts to take into account the main regularities of publication and citation processes and the requirements of practical tasks. Statistical properties of the new indicator – a scientist’s personal impact rate – are illustrated by its application to a sample of Estonian researchers.
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The article draws attention to two lesser known lines written in Glagolitic which are part of the Epilogue to Pamvo Berynda’s Triod Cvetnaja, printed in Kiev in 1631. Thanks to their typographic realisation, these two lines seem to have been mainly considered „an ornament“ or a „cryptographic“ element of the text in older literature. The article presents the Glagolitic text in standard Unicode encoding, so it becomes electronically searchable as such, along with a transliteration and a translation. It turns out that the Glagolitic text is nearly identical to the self-descriptions famout printer Pamvo Berynda had used before (although in Cyrillic). Another question put forth in the paper is the provenience of the actual printing types used in Kiev in 1631. A comparision shows that the letters look similar – but not identical – to printing type used around the same time Italy (Rome, Venice) or by Primož Trubar in the century before. The typographic quality of the Kievan types is, however, inferior.
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The digital (virtual) space is the place (some would go as far as to call it the most democratic of all spaces) where ideas and opinions clash, where new meanings are being created, where new values and beliefs are being forged. At the same time, digital space is the site where meaning is shaped and defined. This paper aims at exploring possible changes in meaning when examining Cyril and Methodius via digital space. Hence, said transformations practically help forge new meanings about the past. By situating Cyril and Methodius within the context of the virtual media space, this paper aims at examining how a culture’s heritage and its representation within digital time stand in direct correlation with the needs of contemporary politics and dominant discourses. Thus, the representations of Cyril and Methodius forged within the digital space breathe new meanings into old legacies, i.e., they de/construct and re/construct it. The research shows that said process, though mostly chaotic and partial, is always compatible with powerful (even if oftentimes contradictory) discourses. Along those lines, if juxtaposing the meaning of a culture’s heritage with said culture’s contemporality, we can in fact ascertain its function, meaning, and influence on contemporary cultural processes. Or, to paraphrase Simon During, to examine the ways in which past traces and representations enter contemporary (popular) culture.
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In this study we examine the occurrences and correspondences of terms for affinal kinship in a Bulgarian–Ukrainian parallel corpus of fiction. All instances of the terms selected for study, matching and non-matching, were located and counted, and the frequencies compared. Some of the asymmetries found may have roots in culture and history whilst others reflect diverse features of language and the practice of literary translation.
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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.
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In practice, the high quality of educational processes and content can hardly be achieved and maintained without monitoring. And since tracking the results is not enough, it is necessary to find existing flaws and identify their causes. In this paper, it is argued that even small data sets such as students' test results can provide valuable information useful to improve further iterations of teaching and learning outcomes verification processes and educational materials. Next, the appropriateness of graphical analysis for this purpose is pointed out taking its simplicity even for non-statisticians and its ability to visualize entire small data sets with high precision into account. However, the primary aim of this paper is to provide practical examples showing that the Python programming language (with a selection of specialized modules) can be used in a convenient and effective manner for graphical analysis of small educational data sets. For the purpose of demonstration case study, actual test results were used. Analysis examined: correctness and confidence of students answering respective test questions, correlations between results based on question type and relevant content area, and also similarities of answers given by different students. Also, a Python-based software environment for graphical analysis has been compared to Microsoft Excel.
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How to organise and realise analog/digital migration of AV documents? Characteristics of analog and digital AV documents. Issues related with changes of television technologies and destiny of AV documents registred on obsolete formats. Passive and active degradation of AV documents. Project of AV migration;lnterdisciplinary team AV archivists, IT specialist, television technology specialists. Optimal solution, joint work with experts from University and industry,related international associations, international knowledge exchange save lot of money. Cheapest, digital archiving solution of AV documents in developing countries.
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Cyber-space refers to the boundless space known as the internet. Cyber-security is the body of rules put in place for the protection of the cyber space. Cyber-crime refers to the series of organized crime attacking both cyber space and cyber security. The Internet is one of the fastest-growing areas of technical infrastructure development. Over the past decades, the growth of the internet and its use afforded everyone this opportunity. Google, Wikipedia and Bing to mention a few, give detailed answers to millions of questions every day. Cyberspace is a world that contains just about anything one is searching for. With the advent of these advancements in information accessibility and the advantages and applications of the internet comes an exponentially growing disadvantage- Cyber Crime. Cyber security has risen to become a national concern as threats concerning it now need to be taken more seriously. This paper attempts to provide an overview of Cybercrime and Cyber-security. It defines the concept of cybercrime, identify reasons for cyber-crime and its eradication. It look at those involved and the reasons for their involvement. Methods of stepping up cyber security and the recommendations that would help in checking the increasing rate of cyber-crimes were highlighted. The paper also attempts to name some challenges of cybercrime and present practical and logical solutions to these threats.
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Apart from the wider social significance of video television archives, including Bosnian and Herzegovinian oldest and richest archive of TV BiH, they are of great importance for the realization of diverse citizens’ rights. Most often, requests are about memories or as a specific proof. Since the video material of the documentary and other nature is mainly categorized as archival material, it is the obligation of the television archives to keep it and, in accordance with the regulations, to submit it to the competent institution (archive, Cinematheque) for the satisfaction of the citizens' personal rights.
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RTV Slovenia joined the EUscreen project which aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe’s rich and diverse cultural history. EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audio-visual archives. It provides a platform which enables to the common users to search through the television heritage and offers many opportunities for discovering heritage online.
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the mission and implementation of digital libraries from a historian’s perspective. This paper summarizes the abstract qualities that historians look for in their sources, and then compares various digital archives both qualitatively and quantitatively, highlighting design features that enhance or detract from the ease of use. Preservation is the paramount mission of research libraries. Digital interfaces should contain images of original documents, html text documents hold little interest. Site interfaces should enable users to browse and zoom with minimal mouse clicks. Downloadable viewers should be avoided. Simple browsing is more important than keyword searching. Google Books sets the standard for digital information, and digital librarians can measure their site interface by that yardstick. This paper provides feedback to administrators of digital libraries. It gives library scientists candid opinions from an intensive end user of digital information, contains several practical suggestions, and explains the reasoning behind those suggestions.
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This paper reviews the most important developments in the field of archival service in the EU member states. It describes joint activities and projects, as well as proposals for the inclusion of archival and other cultural institutions in the framework of the Directive on the Re-Use of Public Sector Information by means of the obligations stipulated by the Slovenian Act on Access to Information of a Public Character. Also presented are the results of a statistical analysis of access to documents in archival reading rooms and on-line in the EU member states. The important role that national archives play in state administration and e-administration development is explained as well. The paper furthermore presents the proposal of the new General Data Protection Regulations intended to cover the sphere of archives. Finally, the paper describes the Council Regulation amending Regulation (EGS, Euratom) no. 354/83 regarding the depositing of historical archives of institutions at the European University Institute in Florence.
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Archiving of audio visual records and changesof televisiontechnologies. There is no doubt that the TV archive of the future will be a digital and multimedia one. The problems of the migration of the contents from analog tv documents to a digital ones will provide TV archives with mixed analog/di- gital contents, and they will be museums of old tv equipment and tapes for at least 10 years. Postponed and selective migration is a risk which must not endanger important documents. Moreover, the process of ageing shows the real archive and use value of an AV document, while modern and superior tecnologies spare repeated and expensive migrations of archive documents.
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Modern technological methods in the process of archiving are increasingly applied in the registries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and their effects are all the more obvious in the process of preservation of archival material. Positive example in this regard is the implementation of Document Management System in the field office operations in the municipality of Stari Grad Sarajevo, which is applied since 2005. This system fully incorporates regulations on office operations with the possibility of adapting and adjusting the legislation. In this way, the electronic archive of documents is created, and it forms the set of structural information about documents that were secretly stored in electronic form. In this way data is provided to users inside and out side the municipality, and it provides the automation of publishing electronic and hard copies while providing conditions for the easy access to information for security and legal issues from remote locations.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has a very valuable archive material on the movie trailer. The cause is physically endangered by several causes, and there is a danger that this cultural and historical treasure will be destroyed. The possibilities for rescuing this treasure are diverse: from securing adequate custodial conditions through the treatment of documents until their transmission (migration) to new (digital) and existing bearers of records, which, of course, requires appropriate professional titles and significant financial resources.
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As regulated by the international legal and social acts the archival materials have the status of the movable cultural goods. Such a status which has originated from the historical progress in the world's under standing of the importance of the archival materials does not entirely reflects their complex significance of a primary historical source of information, documentary evidence as well as of the important cultural goods. It is necessary, therefore, to start treating the archival materials as the subject of the archival science in a different way.It implies making improvements in the international documents, both general and social ones, primarily as a result of a quick development of numerous modern sciences affecting the archival science as well. In the process of a proper defining of the status of the archival materials it is necessary to use the current experiences of the countries in transition, especially experiences of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to prevent the international system in this segment from being built on a verbal basis and as dictated by developed countries. The pragmatic component of this issue should be then worked out by using theoretical ideas of the archival science developed within ICA, but also on the national levels.
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The current practice of establishing models of archival information informal and only formalized archival information systems, especially if they relate to certain professional employees indicates the long term as a great loss of human and other resources in the area of available information sources, and even more in the utilization of human resources. Switching from informalized and formalized models of archival information systems in standardized and globalized models is neither simple nor cheap. Their effects are visible only in the long term. This hypothesis must establish the following facts:- Information systems that rely on paper based technology, due to the nature of the data derived by the organization can support primarily organized sequential data structures, which can be organized in hierarchical way. As a rule, the hierarchy is visible but for example in the index content. Unlike them, advanced information systems, which are based on relational data structures allow greater rationalization of human resources, and migration data in such a system, or from it to other systems. - - Information and its content and context of connecting to the paper-based systems represented as clearly defined indicators and to whether in fact express the relationship of subordination or lack of it, or a simple sequence of content presented. In relational systems, they are presented in detail on the basis of certain relations, which means that they must be content, which together form the information derived from standardized methodological manner, and above all must be laid down criteria for classification, the criteria are clear divisions before the start of processing data for individual detailed elements of committed data structure.- By making the standard archival informational aids their authors have to worry primarily for a clear determination and creating simple relations to the individual descriptions and archival material. In relational systems that is concern of the system, as it is only necessary to fill the content provided in detailed archival expert, semantical and prescribed manner.
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In our field work we are always face with difficult situations in the archives of creators and that is a result of carelessness and ignorance of responsible persons. Archivists, as the main experts in this area, are invited to show the creators not only with education and occasional writing instructions for selecting before obtaining the archival material, but also to offer them and complete support during their daily work. This requires that archivists raise the level of expertise of their advisory work with less focus on lists and physical arrangement of the material. ARIS is an attempt to complete the realization of these requirements on both the creators and on the side of the relevant archives.
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In summary we can state that there are not many differences between archival standards ISAD(g) in one side and information in electronic archival information system AFondy and Methodological instruction for priority processing archival fonds on the other side. As yet unresolved area we see a strict hierarchical division of information about archival described by the level of individual items. Impulse for comparison with international standards, use of archival applications was need to solve a question if we are “compatible” with the world. Even before the future we take a final decision to adopt the standard or not, we have to answer a lot of questions. Hereby, we must recognize the entering of computer processing, online access to archival documents has influence at the unit and content of archival description. Maybe to the final decision help view of Lisa Weber, who says “The use of standards for archival description allow to avoid syndrome perpetual inventory making and force archivists to take the final decision and not to return constantly to solve the same issues.”
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