Multimedia Digital Library as a Constructive Block in Ecosystems for Digital Cultural Assets

Author(s): Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Maxim Goynov,Detelin Luchev / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

Libraries have always been a valuable source of knowledge. The technology evolution transformed the traditional libraries into digital ones which arose the need of efficient serve of the huge amount of information that now exists in the form of digitized content. The focus of the monographic study “Multimedia Digital Library: Constructive Block in Ecosystems for Digital Cultural Assets. Basic Functionality and Services” is on the search of innovations especially in areas and subareas relevant to digital library data management and processing—innovative and creative tools for approaching cultural assets, applications and services for better access and exploiting of the rich and diverse digital cultural heritage in a sustainable way, intelligent curation, creative use/re-use and remix, reinterpretation, study, understanding, analysis, personalization, adaptation, semantics, etc. The research deals with important issues of handling data directly, affecting the economy (as presented by creative and re-creative industry), the public sector (cultural institutions—museums, libraries, galleries, etc.), education, and society as a whole.

Музеят отвъд нацията? Съставители: Николай Вуков, Светла Казаларска, Иглика Мишкова. София: ИК „Гутенберг“, 2016

Author(s): Ivanka Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Book review

Prikazi

Author(s): Dželila Babović,Aida Smailbegović,Goran Pavelić,Ekrem Čaušević,Madžida Mašić,Muamer Hodžić,Amina Šiljak-Jesenković,Alma Omanović-Veladžić,Nihad Dostović,Nedim Zahirović,Adis Zilić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 67/2018

Reviews of: Esad Duraković, "Klasično pjesništvo na arapskom, perzijskom i turskom jeziku. Poetološki pristup", Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu, Posebna izdanja LII, Sarajevo, 2018, 367.; by: Dželila Babović "Katalog arapskih, turskih i bosanskih rukopisa Muzeja Hercegovine Mostar", obradile Dželila Babović, Madžida Mašić, Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu, Muzej Hercegovine Mostar, Sarajevo 2017, 187.; by: Aida Smailbegović Ekrem Čaušević, "Ustroj, sintaksa i semantika infinitnih glagolskih oblika u turskom jeziku", Ibis grafika, Zagreb 2018, 358.; by: Goran Pavelić Marzanna Pomorska, "Russian loanwords in the chulym turkic dialects", Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2017, 266.; by: Ekrem Čaušević Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś, "Anonymous italian-turkish dictionary from the Marsigli collection in Bologna", Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2015, 172.; by: Ekrem Čaušević "A Crimean Karaim - English Dictionary", Gulayhan Aqtay and Henryk Jankowski. Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan 2015; cca. 10 000 riječi, 493.; by: Goran Pavelić Alena Ćatović, "Tragom priče o šejhu Sanʼānu: Hasan Zijaija Mostarac i njegova pripovijest o šejhu Abdurezzāku", Posebna izdanja L, Orijentalni institut, Sarajevo, 2017, 288.; by: Madžida Mašić M. Fatih Köksal, Sana Benzer Güzel Olmaz, "Divan Şiirinde Nazire", Büyüyen Ay Yayınları, İstanbul, 2018, 190.; by: Madžida Mašić Aladin Husić, "Crna Gora u defteru Dukađinskog sandžaka iz 1570. godine", Posebna izdanja LI, Državni arhiv Crne Gore i Univerzitet u Sarajevu – Orijentalni institut, Cetinje – Sarajevo, 2017, 282.; by: Muamer Hodžić Faruk Taslidža, "Bosanski ejalet u doba Bečkog rata (1683-1699)", Izdanja Federalnog ministarstva obrazovanja i nauke, knj. 12, Mostar 2017, 220.; by: Adis Zilić "Bosna i Hercegovina u spisima Ahmeda Dževdet-paše", prevela s osmanskog i priredila Kerima Filan, Connectum, Sarajevo 2017, 262.; by: Amina Šiljak-Jesenković Hana Younis, "Od dućana do pozorišta: sarajevska trgovačka elita 1851-1878", Historijske monografije, knjiga 15, Institut za historiju, Sarajevo, 2017, 357.; by: Alma Omanović-Veladžić "Katalog osmanskih dokumenata (I)", obradila Azra Gadžo-Kasumović, Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka u Sarajevu, Sarajevo 2018, 448.; by: Nihad Dostović Agron Islami, Selim Selimi, Hatixhe Ahmeti, "Epitafet në gjuhën Osmane: deshifrimi dhe përkthimi i tyre në regjionin e Prishtinës", Fakulteti i Studimeve Islame, Prishtinë, 2017, 133.; by: Nedim Zahirović Selami Şimşek, "Tasavvuf Edebiyati Terimleri Sözlüğü", Litera yayıncılık, Istanbul 2017, 416.; by: Aida Smailbegović İbrâhîm Hâs Halvetî, "Erenler Kitabi: Tezkiretü’l-Hâs", haz. Mustafa Tatçı, Musa Yıldiz, Yasin Şen, H Yayınları, İstanbul, 2017, 625.; by: Madžida Mašić İsam Tahkikli "Neşir Kilavuzu", haz. Okan Kadir Yılmaz, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları, Ankara, 2018.; by: Madžida Mašić

Heritage Protection Measures and Propositions through the ”Ambulance for Monuments”. The Case of the Medieval Church of Strei (Hunedoara County)

Author(s): Eugen Vaida,Ileana Burnichioiu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Prikazi

Author(s): Ema Miljković,Rifat Alihodžić,Draško Došljak,Faruk Dizdarević,Jasmina Srdanović,Jasmin Jajčević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 81-82/2019

Reviews of: - “Turski (Osmanski) izvori za istoriju Crne Gore”, Podgorica, CANU 2019, tom I-1, I-2, I-3, 1926 pages, review by: Ema Miljković - Zlatko Karač, Alen Žunić: “Islamska arhitektura i umjetnost u Hrvatskoj - Osmanska i suvremena baština” (Islamic Architecture and Art in Croatia - Ottoman and Contemporary Heritage), Arhitektonski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, UPI-2M PLUS, Zagreb, 2018, 432 pages, review by: Rifat Alihodžić - Zuvdija Hodžić: „Kapija Prokletija – Gusinje i Plav u zapisima i putopisima“, Almanah, Podgorica 2019, 298 pages, review by: Draško Došljak - “Putovanje kroz boje Ibrahima Kurpejovića” (Sa otvaranja izložbe I. Kurpejovića u Historijskom muzeju u Sarajevu 24. aprila 2019. Godine), review by: Faruk Dizdarević - Husein Bašić: “Nedovršene tuge”, review by: Jasmina Srdanović - Izet Šabotić: “Čivčijski odnosi i promjena vlasništva nad zemljom u Bosni i Hercegovini (1878-1918)”, Centar za istraživanje moderne i savremene historije Tuzla, Tuzla 2019, 320 pages., review by Jasmina Jajčević

За развитието на здравната информация

Author(s): Tanya Cholakova,Hristiyan Griva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3+4/2018

Читалищата в съвременното университетско преподаване (Проучване на случай – Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“)

Author(s): Margarita Karamihova,Petko St. Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The researches and the university teaching on the topic of chitalishte are among the traditional but barely presented themes in Bulgarian history education. At the same time, the establishment and functioning of the chitalishta as an active element of the system, which will organize the future of the independent state (19th century), continues to focus the interest of the researchers of Bulgarian modernity.The article comments the contemporary teaching concerning the role of the chitalishta in modern Bulgarian history and culture at the University of Veliko Tarnovo, which gave rise to the necessity of realizing "Find a Treasure!" project. The results of the project and its potential for future national research are presented.

XXVI Международен фестивал „Празник на децата на планините“. Втора международна научна конференция „Детският фолклор – между традицията и съвременността“, 22–29 юли 2018 г., Нови Сонч, Полша

Author(s): Evgenia Grancharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Event

Nationalism, Politics, and Museums in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Case of the Panorama Museum 1453

Author(s): Lorenzo Posocco / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Museums are institutions dedicated to the collection and preservation of artefacts, but they are also sites of national production that contribute to shaping the nation’s collective memory. Sometimes, history exhibited in museums becomes the centre of cultural wars that are not fought on battlefields, but on information panels and showcases: devices where the national past is contested, rewritten, and exhibited. With the coming to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the institutional representation of Turkish national history was subject to significant changes. Conforming with the national ideology of the AKP, recently built museums focus more on Turkey’s Ottoman and Islamic heritage, and less on similarly important ones such as the Greek,Roman, Byzantine, and the more recent Kemalist traditions. Investigating the case study of the Panorama Museum 1453 – one of the most popular attractions for domestic and foreign tourists in Istanbul – this paper examines the way in which politics influences collective remembrance of the past. Its goal is to trace the material links between the government,artists and historians, supporting the spread of Islamic and Ottoman history, and the new museums which exhibit it.

Artistic Memorialization of the Roma Holocaust in Romania

Author(s): Caterina Preda / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

Although the Roma Holocaust in Romania has been documented, and there is an officialpolicy to recall this historical fact, its memory is marginal in contemporary Romaniansociety. This article analyzes four recent examples of art of memorialization of the RomaHolocaust in Romania and argues these artistic forms of memory play an important role inthe building of a more comprehensive public memory of the Porrajmos. The analysis usesan interdisciplinary approach, which combines theoretical resources that belong to the studyof cultural memory with a focus on artistic memory, and the analysis of the relationshipbetween art, politics, and memory. The examples of artistic memorialization have two aims:to render visible the historical trauma through the use of testimonies of the survivors and toprovide further documentary sources of this historical trauma.

Женската Одисея в два балкански романа: Пресрещане от Габриела Адамещяну и Министерство на болката от Дубравка Угрешич

Author(s): Veselina Beleva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

This article examines two Balkan novels in which memories, as fragments woven into the textual fabricof the autobiographical, define the museum-like narrative structure. The focus of the comparative analysis is onthe female voice, which dynamises the museum as a “place of memory” in the novel through the war theme. Byreplacing the lost home with a kind of a mobile ‘museum-novel’ (as a specific type of novel, the genre of exile),writers such as Gabriela Adameșteanu (Romania) and Dubravka Ugrešić (Croatia) problematize the image ofthe waiting woman Penelope, transforming their novels into a female Odyssey between personal and public,authentic and imaginary, past and present, continuity and discontinuity, myth and history.

Тракийското наследство в РИМ – Сливен: за семантиката и функциите на „женските предмети” в царското погребение

Author(s): Nikolay Sirakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The article comments the semantics and the functions of Thracian metal engravings in the collection of the Regional History Museum – Sliven, acquired predominantly throughout the study of some rich graves in the region of Sliven. Marriage is a form of transition from a particular social status to a different one. Through the marriage the hero joins the goddess and turns into a god-man – the highest position in society which is available only for the king. From ideological point of view wedding is a form of choosing of the ruler by the god. The ritual burial of female objects might be interpreted as a sacred symbolic signifier of a marriage between the diseased ruler and the Great Goddess. Its meaning implies the new birth of the ruler after his death. The elements of the opposition birth-death in the mythological consciousness are equal as elements of the general structure of the rites of birth, marriage, death. This is necessary in providing the main eschatological reason for the existence of the tomb as a cult building – to secure a new birth of the deceased ruler in the outer world.

Войводите в музея: биографични репрезентации от Русенско и Сливенско

Author(s): Iskren Velikov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The current text examines the museum representations of Hadzhi Dimitar, Stefan Karadzha, Zahari Stoyanov and Panayot Hitov, whose life connects the areas of Ruse and Sliven. The research is based on observations over four house museums – “Hadzhi Dimitar” in Sliven, “Zahari Stoyanov” in Medven and in Ruse, and “Baba Tonka” in Ruse. These examples display ambiguous presentations of the heroes’ biographies, based on the availability or the absence of a memorial house to the character. The type of presentation is contextualized with the settlement’s history, which in this case appears as an environment for the “spiritual growth” of the hero. The absence of a memorial house leads to a fragmented presentation of the image, turning it into an addition to the main topic.

„Предметите говорят“ – споделени наследства и съучастие на публики

Author(s): Nikolay Nenov,Silvia Trifonova-Kostadinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

Sharing heritage is an important process in society, where a narrative makes transmission and turns in a vehicle for the understanding of both past and present. The text presents the contemporary practices of object oriented museology. Using the exhibits with history in Russe Museum, an exposition and museum educational module are produced. On the basis of the principles of the co-participatory museum, a dialogical environment is built in which the artefacts are not only witnesses of time, but also an inspiration for creativity. Russe Museum explores the relationship between cultural heritage and local development with the participation of the Museum as an environment for communication between different social actors, local communities and shared knowledge. In this process object oriented museology gives the possibility to re-conceptualize the ways of change of the approaches connected to communication through heritage. In its core stays the active public, which is part of the local community.

Едно актуално изследване: „Културно наследство в миграция. Модели на консолидация и институционализация на българските общности в чужбина“. Редакционна колегия: Владимир Пенчев, Николай Вуков, Лина Гергова, Яна Гергова. София: Парадигма, 2017

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

Book review

Понятието „общност“ в Конвенцията на ЮНЕСКО за опазване на нематериалното културно наследство – 2003 г. и свързана с нея документация

Author(s): Mila Santova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The article analyses the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the basic documents related to it with a view of analyzing of the content of the notion of community within these documents. The author finds the lack of a stable definition of community and at the same time outlines its basic characteristics as they are present in the mentioned above documents.

Читалището и опазването на нематериалното културно наследство (Из живота на групите за фолклор в Бистрица и Алино)

Author(s): Stela Nenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The article represents the folklore groups created in the second half of the 20th century. They allow for the local village tradition (preserved as a living practice of its bearers) to enter the local chitalishte. The analysis of the filed-work research in the villages of Bistritsa (Sofia City Municipality) and Alino (Samokov Region) reveals different aspects of the relation between chitalishte institution and intangible cultural heritage in the changing social and cultural contexts, as well as in relation to the changing cultural policies. Thus the article offers an anthropological point of view to the transmission of traditional knowledge, skills and experience in chitalishte environment.

Висше образование по културно-историческо наследство: българският опит

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The article systematizes information about the current cultural heritage programs in the Bulgarian higher education area. The data shows that in eleven Bulgarian universities a diploma of cultural heritage can be obtained.17 master's and 3 bachelor's programs prepare over 500 students a year. Two doctoral programs are also accredited. The rich variety of curricula is an objective result of the complex structure of cultural heritage in itself. However, it is also an indicator for the fragmentation of the higher education system in Bulgaria. The conclusion proposes approaches to overcoming the mentioned fragmentation, as the interdisciplinarity of the scientific field requires pooling of competencies and efforts for better results.

Всяка носия разказва

Author(s): Rositsa Radeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

Notes from the Workshop

Историческите възстановки – динамика, статика, масовка. (Три роли, шест преживявания, един въпрос)

Author(s): Iliya Valev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

In recent years, so-called historical reenactments have become quite popular. Over time were formed groups of its “fans“ as well as critics. Thus, different research views on this phenomenon are a logical fact. By coincidence of life circumstances, I am in a position to allow a specific study of historical reenactments “from within“, because, in addition to being an ethnologist and museum curator, I am also an active historic reconstructor who participates in reenactments. In this study, I am looking through six historical reenactments in which I have directly participated, recreating three types of personalities – an ordinary unmarried young man from pre-industrial Bulgarian society, a clergyman from the Middle Ages and the Revival and a Bulgarian volunteer from the Russo-Turkish Liberation War(1877 – 1878). My target is, based on the “experience“, to look for the parameters of merging the present with the past in historical reenactments. What is the main reason for a modern person like me to look for a merger with a person from a bygone historical period and is it possible to do more than “playing“ in two events happening simultaneously – “once there“ and “here and now“. To answer this question, I use the method of personal history and critical self-reflection, analyzing the personal experience.