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Unstructured file collections will keep archives increasingly busy, as the digitisation of the workplace as well as the private correspondence proceeds. But the archiving of this kind of data requires a lot of time and personnel. startext COMO is a software tool that helps to organize and evaluate unstructured file collections.
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One of the main aims of European ethnology in the second half of the 20th century was to create the ethnographical atlases of various nations in Europe. The basic purpose of the cartographical elaboration of the regional variants of certain cultural elements of the given nation in a certain system and that of collecting them into atlases was to create a database on which investigations could be carried out to define the territorial structure of the given folk culture. The easiest way to define this territorial pattern is the computer elaboration of the database, which means the digitalization and the cluster analysis of the data made by computer. On the methods and on the possibilities of the computer elaboration of the Atlas of Hungarian Folk Culture (AHFC) a paper was held by the author at the 11th Conference of the SIEF’s International European Network (Workgroup) on Ethnocartography in Poland (Borsos 2000). At the 12th conference in Slovakia the author talked about the first results of the cluster-analysis (Borsos 2000/2001). In the last decade the computer programs for the digital version of the AHFC have been developed and the digital version has been extended with supplementary maps as well. As in the digital version we can find not simply scanned pictures of the original sheets but the basic structure of the atlas (base-map, collecting points) is also available, it is not only possible but fairly easy to add new (virtual) sheets to the atlas. So the Atlas has been supplemented with maps elaborating some of the statistical data (demographic and agricultural) of the period between 1900−1910, which is the time interval represented by the cultural data of the atlas. This virtual 10th volume of the atlas contains ‘sheets’ about important information on the cultural picture of the settlements shown and of their cultural environment. The new volume can also help to draw a more accurate map about cultural regions. Another type of supplementary maps can be seen in the virtual 11th volume showing the regional distribution of the territory inhabited by Hungarians regarding cultural and non-cultural aspects. The last section of the distributional maps shows the regional structure of the Hungarian folk culture based on the computer elaborated data of the first 9 volumes, as well as the synthetic regional structure based on the comparison of the computer-drawn picture with three other sources: the statistical investigations of the database, the maps of the two virtual volumes and the scientific literature.
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Office management in the prosecutor’s offices is based on general and specific framework for processing of particularly sensitive data in criminal matters. Registering of the material actions taken in the automated system (TCMS), and complementary semi-automatized and manual records enables security transparency and objectification of working processes. The expressed automatization of the principles of alertness and expediency manifested in keeping inactive records in the registry with automatic signaling of the time to be put into operation in a rounded organizational and office framework is a condition of overall efficiency.
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This paper presents the Slovenian experience with monitoring bibliographic record growth and data quality in the COBIB.SI union bibliographic database. The data on the growth of the union database between 2014 and 2018 is shown. Apart from quantitative data, the activities within the framework of the system for assuring higher quality of the union database are presented. The data on monitoring the work of cataloguers – beginners both before and after acquiring the licence for shared cataloguing is shown. This includes the activity of simultaneous monitoring of bibliographic record quality with the emphasis on monitoring the quality of bibliographic records with shortcomings of the same type and monitoring the records of the so-called daily production. The initial individual approach later proved ineffective. Analyses of certain performed activities have shown that today more than 60% of detected errors are fixed on average. The responsiveness of cataloguers is high, and they have received the activities well. We notice that we are not only informing but also raising awareness e.g. on certain innovations or tools in the field of cataloguing. Based on growth analyses and trend monitoring it will be easier to plan possible database interventions, perform additional data analyses, plan new software updates and similar in the future. We hope our experience is welcome for all members of COBISS.net.
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This paper provides a brief overview of the COBISS organizational model and software usage in the development of the national library information system in Macedonia over the past 30 years. The beginnings of COBISS usage have been running since 1989 within the shared cataloguing system in the SNTIJ / BIS project. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia and the failure of the shared cataloguing system, several Macedonian libraries have again started t use COBISS software due to the need to introduce new technologies and to automate their processes. In 2004, when a great number of libraries showed interest to use COBISS software, the Ministry of Culture of RM has decided to use the COBISS platform for the development of the national library information system of Macedonia, and for this purpose, in the National and University Library “Sv. Kliment Ohridski “ has established centre of the Virtual Library of Macedonia, i.e. VLM Centre. For the past 15 years, COBISS.MK has been operating and evolving according to COBISS.Net development plans. By the end of this anniversary year, more than 70 libraries (national, public, higher education and special) will be included in the system. The decades-long implementation of COBISS has made it possible for online libraries to be seen, to save and to organize the time in the process of the library materials catalogu-ing, and to animate the public by increasing the interest in the use of libraries.
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Because of the war in Yemen, that has devastated effects on the cities and villages, the population and their cultural heritage, the manuscript collections in Yemen are in peril, and inaccessible to researchers. Therefore, a digitisation project was initiated by the German Arabist Sabine Schmidtke, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: ‘The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition: A Digital Portal’. A number of European and American collections of Yemeni manuscripts will be made freely available on the internet. It concerns relatively small but important collections of Yemeni manuscripts, mostly collected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by scholars, diplomats and travellers. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is one of the participating libraries. The collection of circa 150 Yemeni manuscripts is in the process of being digitized, and this work was preceded by a physical survey and conservation project. A previous assessment of Leiden’s collection of manuscripts in Arabic script had pointed out that Yemeni books have characteristics that help to distinguish them from other traditions of the Middle East. In addition, the manuscripts from Yemen are in particular dire condition. How would interventive conservation serve the project and safeguard this specific Yemeni binding tradition at the same time? How can historic repairs be integrated in conservation treatments? Though the Yemeni manuscripts are the focus in this talk, the paper reflects on the effect of digitisation on the use and value of the physical manuscripts, and the complexity of conservation decision-making in general. As the texts become accessible 24/7, the originals become all the more important for critical material evidence. The manuscript production in Yemen, like in many other areas, is characterised by several regional-specific materials and techniques. Conservation dilemmas also concern the native repairs. The local interventions provide information on what materials and knowledge on the craft of bookbinding was available, how aesthetics mattered, and they underline the importance and value of the artefacts themselves. The impact of the materiality will be illustrated using examples from the Leiden collection ranging from the 14th to early 20th century.
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The regional collection of „Metel Ožegović“ Public Library is the most valuable collection in the Library, which was first presented to the public in 1968. From the first moment it strived to become one of the most complete and high quality catalogued regional collections by collecting materials, designing catalogues, by diligent and shrewd work of its librarians together with Vanda Milčetić, the library director at that time. The materials have always been collected and catalogued in a responsible and inspirational way. Despite some problems while collecting, selecting and cataloguing materials, which have been caused by their publication, shape and kind, the Collection has gained its irrefutable status both in the regional area and outside its boundaries. Since 2008 the Collection has been completed systematically by authors which have not been included in the collection so far as well as by works of already included authors. The materials have been collected by purchase, donations, presents and by researching history, culture and science unflaggingly in order to find as many regional items as possible. At first the Collection included 1,000 titles while today it amounts to 10,000 volumes, by cataloguing all kinds of materials which have been entered into several inventory books.
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The main sources of information, elements and structure of the occupational health record are presented. The purpose of the publication is to present a possible approach for building information formats and electronic sharing of occupational health records through the XML standard. A general scheme of the connections in one occupational health record is designed and presented through an XML model. This will support the development of a mechanism (reference models) for extracting data from non-homogeneous computer systems and achieving semantic interoperability between existing information systems related to occupational health information management.
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This paper poses questions about the epistemology of research evaluation by examining the different kinds of evidence and by explicating the epistemological assumptions of using non-intersubjective evaluation criteria in research evaluation. It is argued that the over-emphasis on the wrong kinds of evidence can lead to erroneous assumptions about people and disciplines which in turn lead to undesirable changes in research practices and knowledge production. It is also argued that some issues in SSH research evaluation are rooted in epistemological assumptions that have led to the use of methodologies deprived of intersubjective understanding..
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Higher education in the Arts and Humanities nowadays faces global challenges. By its very nature, Classics is among the disciplines which experience the harshest consequences of the large economic and cultural shifts we are witnessing. In the last decades, the students graduating from the BA curriculum of the Department of Classics to the University of Sofia have decreased in number, their profiles, motivation and interests have gone through various changes, their devotion to reclusive, slow and thorough acquisition of knowledge – so characteristic of the typical figure of the classicist a century ago – has significantly diminished. On the other hand, new technologies not only became ubiquitous in the lives of students and teachers alike but also gave rise to the multidisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, and Digital Classics in particular. Several such initiatives have been developing at the Department of Classics to the University of Sofia and, as of late, have also been introduced to the BA curriculum in Classics. The paper will discuss how getting involved in activities such as encoding ancient Greek inscriptions or working on parallel text alignment can serve as a quick and efficient introduction to more complex research problems and approaches in advanced fields like epigraphy. The general request of policy-makers and public alike for practically oriented higher education yielding quick and relevant results often leads to shallower educational results of lesser quality. Solving research issues through working on ancient sources with digital tools can be a way of acquiring deeper knowledge of the subject matter of Classics more quickly. Examples from different courses and project activities will be examined in order to observe how digitally-aided research works in practice.
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The external factors from nature are responsible for weathering of different monuments and cause considerable deterioration of Old mural Paintings. This paper presents a virtual reconstruction scheme useful for subsequent restoration processes of the degraded versions of the murals from Matia Loggia, Corvins’Castle, Hunedoara, Romania. The analysis of materials and techniques and the possible deterioration mechanisms are dis-cussed, too, correlated with the colour digital photography and mapping of visible painting degraded area were conducted.
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The article describes possible strategies for saving the cultural heritage and accelerated digitization of cultural artefacts and items of national historical significance. Emphasis is placed on the specific opportunities posed by the pandemic crisis and the labor market fluctuations to introduce ICT innovations in museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions.
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Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is a term invented to represent living practices, representations, expressions, skills and knowledge that communities, groups and individuals recognize as distinct but important aspects of identity. The safeguarding of ICH has become a topic of international concern primarily through the work of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) (UNESCO, 2018). Digital technologies and the internet bring unprecedented opportunities to present and preserve cultural assets globally and from a long-term perspective. The use of new technologies in the preservation and transmission of intangible heritage imposes urgent and significant changes in the museum specialists' competency matrix. The paper presents the main results from research con-ducted within the scope of the international project DigiCult in four European countries, aiming to identify the main gaps and constraints regarding the active inclusion of museum professionals in the ICH digital presentation and safeguarding processes.
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Al- Shuaybiyya Mosque in the old city of Aleppo is recorded in Arabic chronicles as the first mosque built in the city by the Muslims. Its position commemorates the location of their first prayer. It is suggested that it was built on over Roman remains, then rebuilt in Zengid period during the reign of Nur al- Din al- Zengi. It underwent a renovation in the 14th century, and possibly most of the surviving structure either dates to the Ayyubid or the Mamluk period. However, to our knowledge, this mosque has not been explored in the con-text of an analytical architectural study to trace the remains of each period. This paper aims to examine the architectural development of the mosque using terrestrial laser scanning to identify the elements of the previous structures. The use of laser scanning offers highly accurate survey results, in addition to a better identification of architectural elements and their relation to the structure and the modern-day city. The conducted survey-study suggests the chronology of the building (phases of construction and their limits), based on the architectural analysis of the digital model and consultation of previous studies and historical text.
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The workshop on Virtual Museums and their Educational Applica-tions presents outcomes of the National Scientific Program “Cultural and Historical Heritage, National Memory and Social Development”, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science (approved by DCM No 577 of 17 August 2018), achieved during the second year under the Work Package No. 4 “Activities for the Development of Scientific and Applied Products” (Ac-tivity "Digitization and virtualization of cultural heritage"). The workshop outlines also some future trends for educational applications of virtual mu-seums.
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This paper is, in a certain sense, a dialogue between generations. More precisely, the authors are describing in parallel how do they view the evolution of electronics based on semiconductor technology along the last decades. Then, each of them is presenting how the profession of an engineer working in this field has evolved since the first integrated electronic circuits have been fabricated. They are spanning the period 1965-2020, corresponding to the rise and fall of the famous Moore’s law, in fact an empirical relationship predicting (up to a certain point) the fast increase of complexity of digital integrated circuits. These tiny components have been providing the hardware support for digital information technology, fostering the third industrial revolution, based on computers, automation and communications. Today technology continues to evolve, requiring immense investments and a tremendous multidisciplinary effort, as we are speaking about digital transformation and the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0 concept).
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One of the most essential elements where technology and archiving match is the electronic description of documents. if it does not have the necessary metadata that make it descriptive, is not digitization, but just scanning. Meanwhile, an archive without media is incomplete, as it does not perform its functional task of guidance the researcher towards the document he requires. Consequently, the electronic description of the document enables the digitization to provide those information tools that help the researcher in finding the information he or she is looking for GDA will start this process in the coming months, in full compliance with international standards ISAD (G) and RIC.
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In the recent years data processing in Big Data applications are moving from a batch processing model to a live streaming processing model. The live streaming processing model allows to process data in a real time or near real time manner. In many cases, there are need of combining data from various sources - both new generated data and data previously gathered and archived. In each case a different storage mechanism is appropriate to achieve best flexibility and to avoid the so-called bottleneck when processing data. In this article we review some of the possibilities of using Apache Kudu and NoSQL Redis systems which made them suitable to be used together for fast processing of streaming data.
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The quick development of information and digital technologies has involved since its beginnings also the world of documentation. This has led to the production and distribution of computerized search tools, easy to use but refined in structure and functionality. This system has nurtured hopes for a new search tool, capable of creating a network of links between documents and reference sources, the ability to integrate knowledge and build links between distributed documentary entities: an easy-to-use cultural information system with endless possibilities that would enable the interaction between cognitive systems realized according to specific procedures and on the basis of different disciplinary traditions. The issue at hand is not in fact, as many blindly believe, entirely technological, but it is above all cultural: the real obstacle to the realization of integration between documentary sources consists of specific methodologies, which over time has tried to it becomes possible to access these resources, each of them in its own disciplinary environment.
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