e-Infrastructures: The starting blocks for Open Science and Innovation. The OpenAIRE case

Author(s): Natalia Manola / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

There is an emerging consensus among the members of the academic research community that eScience practices should be congruent with Open Science, which essentially facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration and data sharing and re-use, entailing Open and Shared Access to research data, data services, tools, analyses, and methods. This short paper presents the key characteristics of a sustainable open science e-Infrastructure as gained from six years of operation of OpenAIRE, a key EU e-Infrastructure on scholarly communication. presented.

Международна научна конференция за Супрасълския сборник

Author(s): Elena Tomova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 23/2011

Digital Archive of Cultural-Historic Heritage of Belarus: Certification of Bells Cast During 16th-19th Centuries

Author(s): Elena G. Shatko,Galina Todorova Bogdanova,Todor Yordanov Todorov / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The article is a summary of a multi-year research into certification of bells of 16th - early 20th centuries collected as a result of liturgical instruments study of 287 bell towers, churches and museums. Analysis of archives from Belarus contributed to the research resurrecting knowledge about lost bell heritage. This is also the first attempt to discuss the establishment of digital Belarusian Historic Bells Archive and introduction of campan handling basic trainings into educational programs of religious educational establishments.

Digitalizing the Proceedings of the Bulgarian Museums, or How to Rescue from Oblivion Priceless Studies on the Cultural Heritage

Author(s): Radovesta Stewart,Mariya Monova-Zheleva,Yanislav Zhelev,Radoslav Pavlov / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The priceless knowledge from the scientific periodicals, published by Bulgarian museums, has fallen into oblivion over the years. In the era of electronic information, the opportunity arises this once lost knowledge to be made Open Access - free of all restrictions on access. Upon digitilization and correct annotation of the museum paper editions followed by providing them on the Internet for free access, there will be offered scope for a more comprehensive study of the Bulgarian cultural heritage, an integral part of which are the works of its researchers. Registering content in platforms such as Europeana / Bulgariana and setting common standards to facilitate finding the information will be the next challenge for the followers of the idea of cultural heritage digital repositories.

Long Term Preservation of Websites

Author(s): Alexander Herschung / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

While websites are of great interest for digital archives, the digital long term preservation of websites is a huge problem. The reason is that websites consist of a large number of file formats and require today’s hardware and software environment to work properly. PABLO is a software tool that processes websites and transforms them into a dramatically simplified form that is simple enough for digital archiving and exhaustive enough to preserve the websites content and appearance and allows users to browse the entire site like the original.

Creating a Digital Model of the Damages of the Earthquake of Metropolitan Tarnovo /13th century/

Author(s): Lachezar Krastev / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The studying of the monuments and complexes in Tarnovo, as well as some other examples in its vicinity give us some strong points for determining of earthquakes and provide data for developing a digital model for this natural phenomenon in the urban environment, in accordance with the specific natural characteristics.

The Seventh National Information Day: Open Access to Scientific Information and Data

Author(s): Peter L. Stanchev,Zlatina Karova,Yanita Zherkova,Radoslav Pavlov,Georgi Simeonov,Bhanu Neupane / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The paper draws the current state of Bulgarian Open access (OA) activities and discussion points for the Seventh National Information Day: Open Access to Scientific Information and data.

TOTAL ARCHIVES STRATEGIJA – TEORIJA I PRAKSA

Author(s): Dražen Kušen / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 12/2009

The paper interprets the term total archives, gives its theoretical explanation and possibilities of its practical implementation in Canadian theory and practice, which is highly valued in the world. Its distinctive feature is reviewed as positive because of its value and significance for preservation of memory totality of a community or a region. Croatian and Slovenian archival theory and practice has headed in similarly basic direction for more than a half a century. More that half a century ago, archival theory and practice in this region was developed independently from other models. Nevertheless, by comparing the principles of total archives strategy with the archival theory and practice in this region, one can notice the basic correspondence of basic archival activities. Implementation of this strategy extends the range and increases the volume of the archival records which become an object of interest to archival profession. Thus, the paper emphasises the importance of multi-level contextual appraisal of archival records in its intra-povenancial and extra-provenancial context. lntra-provenancial context consists of a creator in its narrow provenancial environment. Extra-provenancial context consists of aggregate social, political, economical and cultural environment of the creator. Some of the records could be significant in a broader context from a local to the global level. The perception of the archival records being a part of the world heritage also includes both contents and meaning of total archives strategy. In fact, it recommends a wide documentation of historical development and all the areas of the life of a community, and such a wide trail of a certain time period attempts to preserve and convey to the generations to come valuable material and non-material heritage.

Serwis Trove – współdzielenie informacji o zbiorach instytucji australijskich

Author(s): Jarosław Pacek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The aim of this article is to describe modern methods and techniques for making collections and their metadata available based on the example of Trove service (http://trove.nla.gov.au) run by the National Library of Australia. The website integrates and presents information about different types of library collections, archives, museums, originated from many institutional sources. Trove features facets for limiting search results, FRBR, relevancy ranking of the site in relation to the query, social networking tools. Trove combines a wide range of information resources with highly effective search tools and data management.

TECHNICAL FEATURES OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF AN ELECTRONIC TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY

Author(s): Grygorii Chetverikov,Iryna Vechirska,Oleksii Puzik / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2016

This article is devoted to the development of the software system used to create an English- Russian-Ukrainian terminological dictionary. Scanned and recognized documents in MSWord format were the input data for the dictionary. Issues which appeared during the parsing of the input data are analyzed and solutions using regular expressions are identified. This article also describes the scheme of the dictionary’s lexicographical database, and its classes of models, views and view models. In addition, a detailed description of the software system from a user’s perspective is included, the prospects for the usage of the dictionary are discussed, and the methods used during the development of the system are described. The software system is built using the design pattern Model-View-View-Model. Through the use of this pattern, internal logic is separated from user interface, thus changes made in different parts of the software may be independent. The developed software system allows users to edit, to fill, and thus to create new thematic transferable electronic dictionaries. The main advantage of the system is the equality of languages, i.e. each user can decide which language is to be major.

Działania bibliotek naukowych w zakresie ochrony oraz udostępniania dziedzictwa kulturowego na przykładzie Pedagogicznej Biblioteki Cyfrowej Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie

Author(s): Justyna Buczyńska-Łaba,Barbara Krasińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Digital libraries have a huge role in sharing cultural resources. Digital departments are almost in every significant cultural institution in Poland. All of them have the same primary objective, namely protection and securing the national heritage and serve as an access platform for digitized content for all users, including students. Academic Digital Libraries are also an important tool of promoting the achievements of their employees inside scientific community. Their overall shape and effectiveness is affected by in addition to formal factors such as IT infrastructure, and legal factors, cooperation with University units – institutes, research libraries. Pedagogical Digital Library of Pedagogical University of Cracow was used as an example to present the role and and activities of scientific libraries in creating virtual didactic platform, with particular emphasis on the promotion by PBC’s scientific achievements of its employees (exhibition websites, conference materials), as well as international contacts (contacts with Kitaplığı Atatürk Public Library, Istanbul, Turkey).

Dostęp do polskiej literatury dla dzieci w bibliotekach cyfrowych i agregatorach zbiorów cyfrowych

Author(s): Paulina Motylińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Nowadays, numerous digitalization initiatives are undertaken to make physical artifacts of cultural heritage more accessible. Collections of literature for children have been also digitalized. Article presents possibilities of searching for literature for children available at two Polish digital libraries: National Digital Library Polona and Wolne Lektury and two aggregators of electronic collections: European Digital Library Europeana and Polish Digital Library Federation. As an example of making literature for children more accessible the International Children’s Digital Library was presented. Most of found resources for children in digital libraries is dated on XIX and XX century.

Nieznany rękopis z Bavorovianum. Perspektywy badań zdigitalizowanych zbiorów z Lwowskiej Narodowej Naukowej Biblioteki Ukrainy im. Wasyla Stefanyka

Author(s): Dominika Fesser / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The article is devoted to the fate of the collections which once belonged to the Lviv-based Library of the Wiktor Baworowski Foundation. It presents the activities of Wiktor Baworowski, the posthumous history of the collections that he gathered, and the question of the collections of the Bavorovianum, which remained in Lviv and which due to the post-war change of borders were incorporated into The Lviv National Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine. The article is focused above all on the collaboration of the libraries of Wrocław and Lviv, which involved the project of the digitalisation of Polish collections which remained in Lviv. A 19th-century copiarium which heretofore was not processed, containing inter alia the poems of Anna z Mycielskich Radziwiłłowa, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa and an anonymous diarium describing the path to Dresden served as an example of a work derived from the Baworowski Library which was digitised and made accessible in the internet database. The description of its content facilitated the underscoring of the significance of the processes of digitalisation which enable researchers to study valuable manuscripts access to which was difficult earlier.

„Książka w rogatywce” – najcenniejsze zbiory biblioteczne zgromadzone w wojskowych książnicach w Polsce i na świecie

Author(s): Sergiusz Czarzasty / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

The aim of the article is to discuss the most valuable military-related collections held in military libraries in Poland and in the world. The article will present the history of the Marshal Piłsudski Central Military Library in Warsaw (henceforth referred to as CBW) in the context of the most valuable collections associated with the Polish army and the broadly conceived military sciences that were gathered during the period of more than ninety years. The further part of the article provides a few examples to present the collections of military libraries (with particular reference to special collections), functioning all over the world. The final part of the article will discuss the activities of the digital military libraries.

ČUVANJE ELEKTRONSKE DOKUMENTACIJE I NJENO VREDNOVANJE

Author(s): Žarko Štrumbl / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 8/2005

The paper discusses the experiences of keeping electronic records and their evaluation in the Republic of Slovenia. In terms of storage and evaluation of electronic records legal basis in the Republic of Slovenia is general and these regulations have certain disadvantages. One of the drawbacks is contained in the fact the absence of regulatory body for independent control of electronic commerce. Proposals of Slovenian archivists are going in the direction that such control should carry through the Agency, and the Office for e-commerce and the issuance of secure seals.

PRIPREMA ARHIVSKE GRAĐE IZ KOTORSKIH CRKVENIH ARHIVA ZA EKSPORTOVANJE NA INTERNET

Author(s): Snežana Pejović,Sanja Bauk / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 8/2005

According to the available information and on the basis of so far performed the records of the Republic and the Regional Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, about 40% of mobile monumental treasures of Montenegro are located in Kotor. Accordingly, the oldest archival and library materials in the Republic is stored in Kotor state and church institutions and private collections.

Priče iz mjesta gdje je sve počelo

Author(s): Ad Pollé / Language(s): English Issue: 21/2016

Project Europeana 1914-1918 was created in an effort to gather in one place untold and unpublished stories of individuals and their families. Items that are citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina brought to the show have been digitized and published together with stories (with the permission from the owner) in the pan-European digital library “Europeana 1914-1918“ with the location http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/bs. This paper deals with the Days of collecting memories in Sarajevo in the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the co-organizer of this event.

Dani prikupljanja uspomena iz Prvog svjetskog rata u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): Ismet Ovčina,Muamera Smajić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 21/2016

National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina joined the project Europeana 1914–1918 with the aim of celebration of the centenary from beginning of the World War I. The project implied the organization of Collection Days at which the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina had the opportunity to bring stories, objects,images related to World War I and with their memories contribute to enrichment of large pan-European archive for the preservation of cultural heritage.

Internetová databáze kramářských tisků Etnologického ústavu Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i. v Praze

Author(s): Markéta Holubová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2017

Chapbooks as a very specific genre of printed materials are a unique type of a society‘s material memory, one that is currently under threat due both to its physical medium and its ephemeral nature and bibliographic uniqueness. The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, as one of the bodies tasked with the preservation of the nation‘s cultural heritage in the area of popular culture, has undertaken to process and make publicly available its collection of chapbooks by first publishing them as books and then by digitizing them and cataloguing them in a publicly accessible online database using the MARC 21 format.

Digitalizácia zbierkových predmetov zo zbierok Vojenského historického múzea v Piešťanoch

Author(s): Viera Jurková,Miloslav Čaplovič / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017