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Writing Old Cyrillic and Glagolitic in GNU/Linux with the Bulgarian Phonetic Traditional Keyboard Layout

Author(s): Andrey Bojadzhiev / Language(s): English Issue: 14-15/2015

The paper proposes several approaches for extending the possibility to write Medieval Slavonic Cyrillic and Glagolitic letters in GNU/Linux environment. This is achived by extension of existing keyboard layout, inclusion of newly defined Glagolitic one and by adding more combinations of keys through the multi key (compose key) technique. The proposal is tested and works in openSUSE GNU/LINUX distributions versions 11.3 through 13.2, the rolling release version Tumbleweed with KDE4, Plasma 5 and GNOME desktop environments.

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Опазване на фондове, съхраняващи писмено културно наследство

Author(s): Ivayla Bogdanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Written cultural heritage is being preserved mainly in the funds of libraries and museums. Depending to the scientific or cultural area of interest, archival and literary movable cultural properties are being attributed to it. These are manuscripts, incunabula, rare and valuable books, archival documents, periodical editions in the periods 1844-1878 and 1878-1944, rare and valuable editions in different languages dating from 100 years ago, photographs, postal cards, graphics, prints, lithographs, printed maps, posters, watercolor and pastel painting. Deterioration of these monuments is due to the processes of natural aging and physic-chemical destruction of the paper on which they are written, printed or painted, but also due to the way of preservation and usage. In order to protect and preserve the written cultural heritage it is necessary to constantly conduct comprehensive set of activities, including periodic inspection in order to establish the status of the monument or collection; carrying out conservation and restoration processes; creating optimal conditions for preservation and conducting processes of reformatting of the information to another medium in accordance to the requirements imposed by laws, regulations, standards. In reality, however, researches has shown that in general the majority of requirements are not being followed or are unknown to those who are in direct contact with the monuments of the written cultural heritage while performing their specific activities.

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Две командировки на Тодор Джиджев в Казанлъшко

Author(s): Diana Danova-Damianova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2014

In the mid-1960s, Todor Djidjev made two trips to the region of Kazanluk to record folk songs and instrumental tunes from Kazanluk and 12 villages within the region. He went on the first trip in November 1963 to the villages of Turia, Turnichane, Manolovo, Alexandrovo and Asen, and on the second one he went a few months later, in February 1964, to the villages of Buzovgrad, Ruzhena, Gorno Izvorovo, Hadzhi Dimitrovo, Koprinka, Cherganovo, Shanovo and the town of Kazanluk. His recordings are kept at the Music Folklore Archive of the Institute of Art Studies, BAS. The fieldwork materials of 1963 are recorded on two tapes and handwritten in two notebooks containing the lyrics of over 140 songs. During the second trip, Djidjev has recorded five tapes and written down the lyrics of over 200 songs and descriptions of instrumental tunes in three notebooks. These folk songs have different functions: dance, working bee, harvest, wedding, Christmas carols, etc. Some of the informants were immigrants from other parts of this country. Culturologically, especially valuable are the fieldwork notes, containing interesting stories of the performers, descriptions of traditions and historical facts about the places. This paper is part of a more comprehensive study related to the fieldwork recordings from the region of Kazanluk kept at Music Folklore Archive of the Institute of Art Studies, BAS.

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Semantic Search in Heterogeneous Digital Repositories: Case Studies

Author(s): Maria Nisheva-Pavlova,Pavel Pavlov,Peter L. Stanchev / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

Semantic search augments the goals and scope of traditional search and information retrieval tasks. The paper analyzes the main aspects of semantic search and the corresponding features of some popular semantic search systems. The presentation is focused on a discussion of the implementation of a successful project in building modern semantic search engine. A brief analysis of the gained experience in some experiments with free software tools for advanced semantic technologies accomplished within the Master’s degree course in Semantic Technologies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, is presented and the main techniques used for image and video semantic extraction are discussed in addition.

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Digital Presentation of Bulgarian Language Heritage - Tools and Web-applications

Author(s): Ralitsa Dutsova / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The article describes a model of integrating language techniques with leading-edge technology to develop a web-based on-line tool for heritage language preservation and e-learning. Bulgarian language resources - parallel corpora and bilingual dictionary are presented in an interactive way using a common web-interface which is accessible for students, faculty, and affiliated Heritage language communities.

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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.

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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.

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ЦЕНТРАЛНО И ИЗТОЧНО-ЕВРОПЕЙСКАТА ОНЛАЙН БИБЛИОТЕКА (CEEOL) – НОВИ ФУНКЦИОНАЛНОСТИ НА СИСТЕМАТА И НОВИ ВЪЗМОЖНОСТИ ЗА ИЗДАТЕЛИТЕ, БИБЛИОТЕКИТЕ И УЧЕНИТЕ

Author(s): Detelin Luchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) is a leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe. In the rapidly changing digital sphere CEEOL is a reliable source of adjusting expertise trusted by scholars, publishers and librarians. Currently, over 700 publishers entrust CEEOL with their high-quality journals and e-books. CEEOL provides scholars, researchers and students with access to a wide range of academic content in a constantly growing, dynamic repository. Currently, CEEOL covers more than 1350 journals and 330000 articles. CEEOL offers various services to subscribing institutions and their patrons to make access to its content as easy as possible. Furthermore, CEEOL allows publishers to reach new audiences and promote the scientific achievements of the Eastern European scientific community to a broader readership. Unaffiliated scholars have the possibility to access the repository by creating their personal user account.

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Сводный каталог кириллических рукописных книг, хранящихся в Литве: Предварительные материалы

Author(s): Nadezhda (Nadežda) Morozova / Language(s): Russian Issue: -/2016

The catalogue was prepared in 2008–2011, within the framework of the research project Lithuanica: Literary Heritage of the Ethnoconfessional Minorities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Part II, funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (contract LIT–1–39). The paper provides brief information about all the Cyrillic manuscripts preserved in the libraries and museums of Lithuania. The catalogue is built on the database principle and includes the following fields: 1) title of the manuscript; 2) keeping place; 3) signature; 4) dating; 5) size; 6) storage; 7) provenance. The database contains information about 426 Cyrillic manuscripts: 419 of the manuscripts are kept in Vilnius, 6 books are found in the Biržai Region Museum Sėla and 1 — in the Rokiškis Region Museum. The collected data about the Cyrillic manuscripts preserved in the libraries and museums of Lithuania suggest that Lithuania has the biggest collection of these artifacts among the Baltic States.

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Księga akt grodzkich trockich [1660–1661] ze zbiorów Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego. IV

Author(s): Viktorija Ušinskienė / Language(s): Polish Issue: -/2016

The catalogue was prepared within the framework of the research project Court Books of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL): Digitization and Database, realized by Vilnius University Library in 2011–2014 (VUL, No. LIT–5–19). The paper deals with the previously unexplored Trakai Castle Court Acts of 1660–1661 (F7–MDGs, 1660–1661) from the VUL collection. It presents Part IV of the critical catalogue of the manuscripts written in Polish and Old Byelorussian (Ruthenian) languages, also as short descriptions of the documents No. 664–774 (pp. 709–826). These documents are important for the research of Lithuanian, Polish and Byelorussian history. Information accumulated within them reflects a broad political, social and cultural panorama of the multilingual GDL society. It enables us to consider them as unique reference books that represent the process of change in the sociolinguistic situation of the GDL.

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За видовете интернет форуми по съдържание

Author(s): Rusin Kotsev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

Тhe paper is an attempt to overcome the asymmetry in the descriptions of web forums as a genre of Internet communication. It supports the classification based on content by challenging the differentiation of forums according to their communicative goals.

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Teapot-shaped wheel-made lamps from Cilicia and southeastern Turkey

Author(s): Ergün Lafli,Maurizio Buora / Language(s): English Issue: XXVIII/2019

The aim of this research, based on a series of unpublished lamps from Mersin, Malatya and Mardin museums and all the necessary parallels, is to propose a new hypothesis on the chronology and diffusion of the type of lamps Donald Bailey nicknamed “teapot-shaped”, well attested in continental Turkey (Konya, Akşehir, Sagalassos), where their production is very well framed. In the coastal part of Asia Minor, on the contrary, this type seems to know at least three peaks of production: the Hellenistic period, the 2nd to 3rd century AD and, finally, the 6th century AD.

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FOTOGRAFIA W ARCHIWUM. IDENTYFIKACJA - ZABEZPIECZANIE - KONSERWACJA

Author(s): Anna Seweryn / Language(s): Polish Issue: 117/2021

The article is devoted to the issue of photography as an archival material requiring particular knowledge at the stage of identification, preservation and conservation of collections. Photographs are objects made in various techniques and technologies, on a range of bases and light-sensitive substances. Their complicated structure is responsible for the exceptional sensitivity of these objects in contact with destructive factors and for the often rapid course of the degradation process, even resulting in the complete loss of the medium. The text deals with the identification of techniques and technologies used in the making of objects, describes the factors influencing the degradation of images, and highlights the basic guidelines for the protection and conservation of collections. The text presents the beginnings of the phenomenon of photography, as well as the most common photographic techniques found in Polish collections. The author describes the most important research concerning the identification and preservation of photographs, quoting source materials. The essential part of the study consists of guidelines concerning the process of identification of the technique of taking an object, from which all activities connected with securing or preserving photographs should begin (including the identification of unstable plastic bases). Then the text describes the most common causes of degradation of archival photographic materials and the basic processes thanks to which we can positively influence the longevity of photographic collections (including the storage of objects in reduced temperature and relative humidity parameters). The study ends with a description of preventive conservation measures necessary to maintain the collections in a good state of preservation as well as proper handling of photographs during the process of digitization of the collections.

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Kurzemes-Zemgales hercogistes senās monētu kolekcijas

Author(s): Viktors Dāboliņš / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 41/2020

This article covers the oldest coin and medal collections in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia with a view to historical knowledge formation. The ideological basis for, methods and principles applied to, and basic problems associated with assembling these collections are each explained. The collecting of coins and medals in Courland began at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, simultaneous with the spread of collecting in Riga and Livonia. At present, three collections of coins and medals are known, those belonging to Magnus von Torck, Samuel Rhanäus and Christoph Georg Ziegenhorn. The registers or copies of von Torck’s and Rhanäus’s collections are the oldest known sources for coin collecting in the territory of present-day Latvia which have been preserved to this day. The registers were compiled at the beginning of the 18th century and are structurally identical because their author was Samuel Rhanäus. The coin descriptions are very primitive, basically indicating their legends, their number in the collection, and the time they had been struck. The legends are approximate and often invented. Overall, the information is of low credibility, making it impossible to completely reconstruct the composition of the collections. The collections have been formed according to the local-historical principle, including only those coins and medals struck in former Livonia and under Polish and Swedish rule. The most problematic for collectors were coinages from the Middle Ages through to the 16th century, when no dating and more complete legends, which would have helped with identifying the coins, were not included. In trying to reconstruct the possible activities of the early collectors, it may be concluded that they worked with very limited knowledge and skills. No catalogue or other publication that would provide information on Livonian coins had yet appeared, the local archives were usually inaccessible, and there were only a very limited number of publications that would present the necessary genealogical information on the seigneurs of Livonia. All of the above conditions gave rise to legends and descriptions containing various interpretations and fantasies. Despite the minimal contribution of the early collectors to Baltic numismatics, it can be observed, even at this early stage, the interdisciplinary character of this subbranch of history.

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Historia i współczesność Muzeum Książki Dziecięcej w Warszawie

Author(s): Jarosław Jagiełło / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2021

The article presents the historical and present organisation and activity of the Museum of Children’s Books, which is a special department and scholarly reading room of the Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of Mazovia Province. At the beginning, a short history of the institution is described and its present location and collections are discussed. Next, the author presents the functions of the Museum regarding updating and processing the collection, as well as its most recent informational and promotional activities. Thus, he presents the forms of promoting science, culture, and reading that are undertaken in the Museum: scholarly conferences, workshops, competitions, exhibitions, as well as its didactic activity.

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Incunabulele bibliotecii Batthyaneum din Alba Iulia-date referitoare la cercetarea colecţiei

Author(s): Andreea Mârza / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 61/2022

This research has as a starting point some information discovered in the library catalogues where reference is made to the existence of duplicate incunabula in the book holdings. They are catalogues drawn up after the death of the library’s founder, bishop Ignác Batthyány (+ 1798) by the second librarian, András Cseresnyés. Following the bishop’s death, the Government of Transylvania also requested the inventory of the book holdings and writing catalogues to know the exact holdings considering the lawsuit filed by the family of the deceased bishop.On this occasion, librarian A. Cseresnyés drew up several catalogues to which he also added that of the duplicates existent at that time. Among the duplicates are mentioned a series of incunabula which over time were given in exchange (in 1826) or sold (between 1930 and 1931) due to financial difficulties. Of those discovered to date, only the bishop-founder had incunabula in his collection. Of these, several tens with lacks, damp stains, fragmented etc were removed from the initial holdings. The library needs a new incunabulum catalogue to contain maybe also a short description of the circulation of each copy till Transylvania; similarly, it also needs to find out, if possible, about the potential local collectors, especially local private individuals, for example from the Saxon Transylvanian area. The incunabulum collection held by the bishop founder of the institute from Alba Iulia was amassed in different ways; all of them left traces on the works such as ownership marks.The study also tackles the works or articles written in Romania concerning the incunabulum collection of the Batthyaneum Library to offer, we hope, a starting point for researching the holdings and, perhaps, for writing a new catalogue.

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Biblioteca I.N.S.T.

Author(s): Mihai-Vladimir Iliescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2005

Books and Periodicals Included in the NIST Collections

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ІНФОРМАЦІЙНА МОДЕЛЬ «УКРАЇНСЬКА БІБЛІОГРАФІЯ В ОСОБАХ» ЯК ДЕТЕРМІНАНТА СУЧАСНОГО ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОГО СУСПІЛЬСТВА

Author(s): Natalіia Stronska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2022

The purpose of the article. The study of the peculiarities of the representation and existence of bibliographic and biobibliographic data on the background of the information society. The latter corresponds to the specific functioning of the electronic library, the structural part of the information model “Ukrainian Bibliography in Persons”. The research methodology consists in using of comparative and historical-logical methods. This methodological approach allows us to disclose and analyse certain models of information about the anthropological component in the social relations provided by libraries. Scientific novelty of the work consists in the special construction of the information model “UBP”, which emphasises biographical data, consistently associated with other sources of information, in particular with biobibliographic, biographical, and thesaurus as well. Conclusions. The development of the general concept of building an open, integrated electronic bibliographic resource “UBP” provides that it is appropriate to develop on a corporate basis a series of leading libraries that need to ensure a permanent match of software and hardware with modern standards, a unified and simple user interface and remote access support. It also helps develop criteria for the selection of documents, unified description, and the cataloging of electronic documents, correlation of the description with the original; information integrity and guaranties of its permanent and continuous delivery to consumers, constant content analysis of the online reference sources, scientific libraries of Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora websites as well, identify and digitise retrospective sources of Ukrainian bibliography.

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ДОКУМЕНТАЦІЙНЕ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ПРАВОВОЇ СФЕРИ: СУТНІСТЬ ТА ОСОБЛИВОСТІ

Author(s): Alla Hrebeniuk,Alla Hrebeniuk,Alla Hrebeniuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2022

The purpose of the work. The article is devoted to the definition of the features and essence of documentation support of the legal sphere. Methodology consists in the application of methods of analysis, synthesis, comparative method, with the help of which scientific works related to the subject of scientific research are studied. Scientific novelty. Lexicographic sources, scientific works, and normative-legal acts in which questions within the limits of the chosen subject of research were considered are analysed. The absence of the results of a comprehensive study on the issue of documentation support of the legal sphere has been established. It is stated that this does not allow the allocation of communicative areas for its improvement and their implementation. For the first time, the characteristic features are determined and the concept of the communication system of the legal sphere is formulated. Conclusions. The following features of documentation support of the legal sphere are defined: its implementation by creating conditions for legal activity in accordance with specific needs and requirements; their localisation in the context of documenting legal information and organisation of work with legal documents; connection of documentation support of the legal sphere with document science, which has a clear communicative aspect and has an impact on the formation of legal relations; nomination of a legal document as a carrier and source of information of a legal nature and a phenomenon of the information and communication sphere, which has a general communicative and special legal functions. The definition of documentation support of the legal sphere is formulated. It is the process of creating appropriate conditions for documenting information of a legal nature and organisation of office work, necessary for the interaction between participants in the communication system of legal entities, as well as the emergence, change or termination of legal relations.

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СИСТЕМАТИЗАЦІЯ ФОРМ І МЕТОДІВ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ЕЛЕКТРОННИХ РЕСУРСІВ В УКРАЇНІ

Author(s): Ihor Bondar / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2022

The purpose of the work is to study the systematisation of forms and methods of functioning of electronic resources in Ukraine. Research methodology. When conducting the research, general scientific and special research methods have been used, including analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalisation, and systemstructural analysis. The scientific novelty of the work consists in generalising the issues of systematisation of the forms and methods of functioning of Ukrainian electronic resources. In particular, it has been defined that the specifics of changes in electronic resources influences the methods used to systematisingly catalogue, optimise, and unify information through changes in the mechanisms of implementation of the specified processes. Conclusions. In the course of the research, it has been determined that electronic resources form the collection of information in libraries in the form of full-text databases, electronic journals, image collections, multimedia in the form of CDs, tapes, the Internet, web technologies, electronic discussions, electronic news, data archives, email, even online chat. E-resources may be found in differentiated forms such as e-books, digital libraries, online journals, e-learning tutors, and online tests. It is established that such types of electronic resources are distinguished as local, network, and electronic resources of combined distribution. It has been found that the method of bibliographic description of electronic resources is determined in accordance with the type of access, taking into account the category of the object of description and its structure. It has been determined that electronic resources in the form of digitised documents are currently the most effective form of involving in the scientific circulation of huge arrays of documents for social and communication activities of institutions.

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