Author(s): Ahmet Erdi Öztürk / Language(s): English
/ Issue: 1/2023
Keywords: Editorial; Politics; Religion;
In social sciences, there is no consensus on the definition of religion and therefore, defining religion has always been a problematic issue. Yet, it might be possible to argue that; fundamentally, religion is a system of beliefs, rituals and practices, usually institutionalised in one manner or another, which connects this world with the beyond. This system gives all sorts of religions a particular layout, ordinance, and pedestal. Furthermore, religion provides the bridge that allows humans to approach the divine, the universal life force that both encompasses yet transcends the world. More elaborate definitions discuss dimensions of religion that range from the mythical and narrative to the social and material. Religion is a multifaceted phenomenon that has various impacts on the different levels of society, and on internal and external politics. Therefore, it can be seen as an independent, intervening and dependent variable in various types of studies and this structural flexibility brings scholars freedom of specification regarding what religion means.
Revival and Multiplatform Presentation of Forgotten Religious Heritage Sites in the Project Named “Sacred Past”
Author(s): Gizella Börcsök,Róbert Nagy,Krisztián Vollmuth,Zsolt László Márkus,András Molnár,György Szántó,Tibor Szkaliczki,Miklós Veres,Zsolt Weisz / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Religious Heritage; Pilgrimage; Multimedia; Digital Narrative; Virtual Walk
The objective of the paper is to shed light on the importance of the digital presentation of religious heritage and present the multimedia documentation of a chapel developed within the “Oltári Múlt” (“Sacred Past”, in Hungarian) project. It aims to preserve the values of medieval churches through video documentation. Walls and stones come alive for contemporary visitors, connecting the present with the past. The paper showcases an example of a chapel and how video documentation, virtual tours, and other ICT tools are applied in the project to create a digital narrative with a creative vision and mastermind approach.
Regional Academic Centers and Their Role for Digitalization of the Cultural and Historical Heritage of the Black Sea Region
Author(s): Sevdalina Turmanova / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Regional Academic Center; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Digitalization; Cultural and Historical Heritage; Black Sea Region
Regional academic centers in the country create opportunities for applying an interdisciplinary approach in research, education and, above all, effective applied results serving business, municipal and national management organizations and institutions. One of the main activities of the Association "Regional Academic Center of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences" in Burgas is participation in the development of methods and technologies for digitalization of the cultural and historical heritage of the Black Sea region. The outsourced unit of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences carries out digitization activities of the cultural and scientific heritage of the region, having so far participated in activities to create digital libraries for the iconic collection of the Burgas History Museum and for the collections of the Regional Library "Peyo Yavorov" Burgas.
Online Database of 14th-century South Slavonic Manuscripts. Research Results and Perspectives
Author(s): Marco Scarpa,Marta Riparante,Desislava Paneva-Marinova / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Digital Humanities; South Slavic Manuscripts; Typologies of Manuscripts
This paper shares the experience of the Kopisti14 project team in achieving a common interdisciplinary scientific result through active collaboration be-tween philologists and computer scientists, each contributing according to their expertise. Some early results of this collaboration are presented. They show how the data collected and processed together offer some interesting insights and raise questions for future research.
Academic Institutional Repositories for Studies, Research and Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Latvia
Author(s): Daina Valeine / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Open Science; Institutional Repositories; Scholarly Information; Digital Preservation; Higher Education Institutions
Institutional repositories enable the storage and sharing of scholarly information and are an essential element of open science. The study assesses the current status of institutional repositories in Latvian higher education institutions and provides an overview of the development, design and management of repositories, resource provision and access.
The Role of Language Technologies in Digital Humanities (The Case of Parliamentary Debates)
Author(s): Petya Osenova / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Parliamentary Debates; Parlamint; Comparable Corpora; Language Technology; Digital Humanities
The paper focuses on the use case of parliamentary debates as part of Digital Humanities. First, the ParlaMint project is outlined as a flagship initiative of CLARIN ERIC infrastructure. The project makes content from the national and regional parliaments visible, comparable and accessible for policy making and research. Then, the approaches are considered that have been applied in the creation of 31 corpora from national and regional parliaments. Last but not least, the utility of the multilingual resource is discussed.
Digital accessibility to educational and informational resources for people with disabilities is an important part of contemporary life. Semantic organization of knowledge in the domain of accessibility provides a convenient way of extracting and organizing data. The paper focuses on semantic design techniques and related taxonomy models that could be used in the digitization process of resources intended of people with disabilities usage.
Keywords: Digital Libraries; Bulgarica Collection; Scientific Literacy Heritage
This paper presents the development of a digital library, created for the needs of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Based on previous work by the team from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, this new environment exemplifies the employment of state-of-the-art digital technologies for the presentation of scientific literary heritage, in this case the Bulgarica Collection – the advancements of the researchers in the field of Bulgarian studies in the 1980s. The development is also a component of the research e-infrastructure CLADA-BG.
The paper discusses users’ activities in the period 2011-2022, mostly types of searches, in an electronic encyclopaedia on saints. The e-product contains information in Bulgarian on orthodox church calendar and texts dedicated to saints as preserved in medieval Slavonic manuscripts and in popular Bulgari-an culture (as represented in fieldwork interviews). The most frequently used options are “view object” and “view date”. Most often articles on popular saints amongst Bulgarians were read, such as St. Basil the Great, St. Kliment of Ohrid, St. George, and St. Petka of Tarnovo. Less often are searches by combined parameters and an increase of their frequency is observable in 2019-2021.
Tangible and Personalized Smart Museum Application
Author(s): Rosen Ivanov,Victoria Velkova / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Smart Museums; Tangible Interfaces; User Segmentation; User Profiling; Push Notifications
This paper presents the architecture of a Web app designed to deliver personalized content to museum visitors both indoors and outdoors. The app uses a tangible type of interface to obtain information about the museum's exhibits. For this purpose, each exhibit can be associated with an NFC tag, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon or a geofence in open-air museums. The service automatically profiles its users based on statistics about the preferred type of exhibits, media formats and time spent viewing each exhibit. Visitors can get the information they want about an exhibit even when the app is not running. Push notifications are used for this purpose. The necessary experiments have been conducted to prove the applicability of the service for real-time delivery of personalized content.
Application of Geolocation Module in the Electronic Multimedia Guide
Author(s): Dušan Tatić,Radomir Stanković,Marko Jovanović,Jovan Stojanović / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Mobile Application; History, Monuments; Geolocation
The paper presents the work in progress towards the enhancement of features and increasing the comfort of usability of the multimedia guide for the War Museum of Niš under the Open Sky. Previously, this electronic guide was realized as a mobile application that informs visitors about the persons and events to which monuments in the city of Niš are dedicated. Visitors could access information about the monuments through a list of monuments or by using an interactive map with the location of the monuments marked. Presently, we are introducing a new module that will improve user experience through the usage of location-based services. The visitor's location is used by the Geolocation module to show the information about the nearby monument. The monument has to be inside of a predefined radius (e.g. 2 m or more) in order to activate the projection of the information about the monument.
I discuss sources, main stages and results of digital three-dimensional reconstruction of destroyed houses from the 19th century in the town of Teteven. The goal is to test a new model of preservation of architectural heritage which exists now only in archived drawings and to establish new conditions of rethinking its value in virtual reality. I introduce the concept of monuments of absence insofar as the digital avatars possess authenticity and sacredness.
The Case Study of the Serbian Copyist Ioan. On the Development of a Scientific Method for South Slavonic Palaeography
Author(s): Marta Riparante,Milena Davidović / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: South Slavonic Palaeography; Serbian Copyists; Database; Descriptive Model
The present research aims to address the case study about the Serbian copyist anagnost Ioan through the use of the web-based repository. The same scribe's signature is observed in the manuscripts Dečani № 127 and № 119, which are also connected by the typology and a similar dating. The goal is to compare the distinctive features of both manuscripts and the handwriting of the 14th century scribes who contributed to the copying. In conducting this research, we will use a new descriptive scientific model, created and tested by the research project team.
Unsupervised Creation of Semantic Graphs to Navigate Intangible Cultural Heritage Using Transformers
Author(s): Maria Teresa Artese,Isabella Gagliardi / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Semantic Graph; QueryLab Intangible Cultural Heritage Portal; Clustering; Data Visualization; Bert-like Transformers
The success of cultural heritage archives depends on their ease of use and navigation. A simple and intuitive user interface can improve accessibility and inclusiveness. This paper presents a new approach to create semantic graphs from archive contents. The resulting graphical representation allows users to explore and navigate the data in new and intuitive ways.
In the context of global and high-tech development, cultural fields are often overlooked during these transitions. Therefore, it is essential to pay close attention to their inclusion. Cultural-historical heritage, which has undergone centuries of changes, deserves to be introduced into the technological world and made as accessible as possible to society, without territorial or border restrictions. Digitizing a part of this heritage, including folklore, can make it high-tech while preserving its character, peculiarity, and identity. This article examines the digitalization of Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage. It explores existing international standards for presenting cultural heritage and proposes a formalism for an adequate presentation of knowledge in the field of Bulgarian folklore. This article presents the first version of a model for the formal description of objects from Bulgarian folklore. We provide examples of the formal presentation of objects from Bulgarian folklore and their corresponding computer implementation.
Keywords: Bobbin Lace; Lacemaking Gestures; Textile Design; 3D Meshes
This article presents a new method for designing 3D bobbin lace patterns that addresses the lack of specifications and difficulties faced by novice users when using conventional pictorial symbol patterns. The methodology pre-sented demonstrates the feasibility and potential for preserving traditional techniques, exploring new possibilities and advancing the field.
Benefits and Security Challenges of Big Data Analytics
Author(s): Alexander I. Iliev / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Data Security; Data analytics; Cultural and Scientific Heritage
Big data analytics is a powerful technique used by companies to secure their data. However, data security remains a significant challenge for cultural enti-ties such as libraries and museums, as hackers can target database systems and gain access to sensitive information. This study examines the benefits and security issues associated with big data analytics and proposes a manual approach for analyzing data with application to digital presentation and preservation of cultural heritage. By providing insights into the strengths and weaknesses of big data analytics and exploring strategies for securing data, the goal of the research is to help organizations make informed decisions about their data management practices.
Keywords: Personalization; Adaptive Methods; Web Usage Mining; Content-based Filtering; Cultural Heritage
In this paper, we review different approaches of providing personalization for cultural heritage content – several static and adaptive approaches, and recommendation systems. The purpose of our research is to compare these methods, evaluate their feasibility for certain types of applications in the field. We outline the needs for personalized experience involving cultural heritage content and describe how those needs are addressed by the different approaches, and point the challenges, benefits, and disadvantages of each of these methods.
Career Guidance Model for Digital Transformation in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Author(s): Evita Pilege / Language(s): English
/ Issue: XIII/2023
Keywords: Cultural and Creative industries; Digital Transformation; Human Capital; Information Technologies
Cultural and creative industries are undergoing a digital transformation. To successfully use the opportunities of information technologies, it is necessary to invest in human capital. A successful, digitally based, accessible and inclusive career guidance system is one of the preconditions for the development of countries, organizations and individuals.
Keywords: CLaDA-BG; CultIS; Research Infrastructure; Digital Humanities; Digital Content Management Systems; Intelligent Content Curation
The main results of the work of the team of Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the project CLaDA-BG – the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Research e-Infrastructure for Re-sources and Technologies in Favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, Part of the EU Infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, will be presented during the Information Day within the DiPP2023 conference. The main emphasis will be placed on current and ongoing developments and implementations of CultIS - a web-based software platform for the intelligent digital management and presentation of large data sets and knowledge from the field of culture, humanities and social sciences.
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