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Cilj održavanja konferencija BAM jeste uspostavljanje bliže saradnje između biblioteka, arhiva i muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini, a kako bi se provela zaštita, dostupnost, istraživanje, promocija i širenje informacija o kulturnoj i naučnoj baštini Bosne i Hercegovine, uz primjenu novih tehnologija i evropskih standarda.
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The Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted on 14th July 2011 three new library laws: Law on legal deposit of publications, Law on old and rare library material, Law on library and information activities. Serbian library community, in cooperation with Ministry of culture, worked nearly two years on the preparation of these laws. This task was not easy, especially because the drafts should be harmonized with many different European resolution, directives and regulations. The laws came into force, but their application will start when all bylaws are prepared, three months after for the Law on legal deposit of publications and six months after for the other two laws. Law on library and information activities includes several standards which will be signed by Ministry of culture. In this paper the author will talk about all novelties which the new laws introduce in the library and information sector in Serbia, about their harmonization with European legislation and standards presrcibed by new laws.
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In line with possibility of modern technology, the Museum of Peasant Uprisings has begun to digitize their collections. The first choice was the digitisation of a Collection of Postcards and Photographs. The collection was largely resolved, with the necessary metadata and it seemed most appropriate to begin with. The goal of digitizing the collection was protection, processing and increased. Digitizing the collection was funded under The National Programme of Digitisation of Archival, Library and Museum. The next planned step is the digitisation of The Weapons Collection. Our idea is that this collection is digitized in 3D, which would create an additional value: we would have models for traveling exhibitions, we would allow the blind and visually impaired people explore our collection and provide us with the possibility of different interactive workshops. Of course, this is a project that requires greater resources, and its realization will depend on funding.
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This paper discusses the importance of linked data for the semantics of cultural and scientific heritage and it provides some reasons on using JSON-LD as a standard. From a conceptual point of view, cultural and scientific heritage should widen for broad human and computer access. Web semantics support the transformation of information to knowledge on a large and open scale and cultural and scientific heritage should benefit from that, especially if we see the latter as a pillar in a lean system, such as E-Democracy that seeks for permanent improvement. Cultural and scientific heritage has a primary role in education of individuals but also in the optimization process of knowledge society through the humane collective approach of trial and error. In order to build a society of inclusion using vertical (temporal) and horizontal (spatial) inquiries in social values, religions, beliefs and rituals we must facilitate broaden and less restrictive access. One way to achieve this task is by using linked data for connectivity and meaning of information and the standard of JSON-LD for extensive and simple digital access.
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The paper presents a software system for preservation of Bulgarian language resources – parallel corpora and bilingual dictionaries. The system allows an open access to digital language resources via internet. The main components and the functionalities of the current version of the system are briefly described. The article emphasizes on the description of the module “Search” (a tool for information retrieval and data extraction from a bilingual dictionary).
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The main aim of the Fourth International Conference Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage (DiPP2014) is to bring together as many interested institutions as possible working on the digitisation, recording, docu-menting, archiving, presenting, protecting and managing cultural and scientific herit-age, so that they can share their advanced thoughts, know-how and experience. Public and specialised libraries, museums, galleries, archives, community centres, research institutions and universities are expected to share and acquire knowledge, skills, and expertise from the event.
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Protection and preservation of cultural and historical heritage are particularly relevant today. The paper presents essence and challenges in the process of three-dimensional scanning of objects. Special attention is paid to the methodology of 3D scanning of cultural artifacts.
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The correct documentation and scientific attribution of ancient works of art requires the processing of relevant amounts of images and interdisciplinary data usually kept in non-compatible formats and objects of different property. The main goal of the IFIDA project Intelligent Fast Interconnected Devices and Tools for Applications in Archaeometry and Conservation Practice is to collect and integrate the dispersed models, tools, case studies, imaging and analytical resources resulting from previous investigations of works of art in repositories that facilitate extraction and sharing of new knowledge for cultural heritage research. This information will be further assessed applying sophisticated analytical and computer technologies in order to develop or adapt interconnected software tools for very fast authenticity certification and applications in archaeometry and conservation practice; to benefit development of new scholarship and technologies.
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The problems of protection of semantic organized data and encryption of RDF graph are investigated. Technologies used in the construction of a semantic network are presented. XML-encryption and standardization of semantically structured content for XML signature are described. We perform encryption of XML data associated with the semantic representation of data for a kind of percussion instruments.
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Coins from the Burgas Bay: Creation of a New Digital Numismatic Content in the Internet Representing the Economic and Cultural Development of Burgas Region from Ancient Times to the Present Days // Coin Collection of Regional Historical Museum – Burgas /RHM-Burgas/ is one of the oldest and most complete in Bulgaria. This paper describes a project framework for building a virtual collection titled “Coins of the Burgas Bay” considered as a collection from digital objects presented in an interactive environment, rendered in a web browser. Using that environment, the virtual visitor can examine a given digital object inspecting it in detail. This article presents the conceptual model for the digital presentation and annotation of this unique numismatic content aiming to ensure the presentation of the content to the worldwide dispersed audience as well as to promote scientific research activities in the connected science domains.
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Project "North +": documenting, preserving and providing public access to the cultural heritage in libraries, museums, archives and galleries in North and Central Bulgaria // This paper presents the project „North +“ for documenting, preserving and providing public access to the cultural heritage in libraries, museums, archives and galleries in North and Central Bulgaria.
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This paper presents an innovative approach for enhancing digital libraries functionalities. An innovative distributed architecture involving digital libraries for effective and efficient knowledge sharing was developed. In the frame of this architecture semantic services were implemented, offering multi language and multi culture support, adaptability and knowledge resources recommendation, based on the use of ontologies, metadata and user modeling. New methods for teacher education using digital libraries and knowledge sharing were developed. These new methods were successfully applied in more than 15 pilot experiments in seven European countries, with more than 3000 teachers trained.
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We explain the principles the Open Access Policy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic adopted as a consequence of its accession to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. The Policy is implemented by means of Academy’s Institutional Repository. An example of a subject specialized open access repository is the Czech Digital Mathematics Library (DML-CZ) and the European Digital Mathematics Library. We discuss a special feature of the DML-CZ represented by the highly heterogeneous collections devoted to eminent personalities of the Czech mathematics.
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This paper presents the overall structure and the functional specification of an interactive environment for digital preservation and preservation of fashion objects, developed to serve the students’ learning needs of the National Art Academy.
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Digital image processing is an important area of preservation and representation of cultural and historical objects. Part of it is the task of cleaning images corrupted by noise. Many different methods and approaches have been successfully implemented, but still filtering and denoising techniques are developing and improving intensively. Herein, we report numeric simulations of 2D image filtering. Effects of impulse noise are very efficiently reduced by adaptive median filtering. The situation of additive noise, which itself depends on the intensity of the original image, is more complicated. However, we demonstrate that in this case the use of wavelet transforms in the denoising procedure is very productive and promising.
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In this paper, we consider the task of recognizing epigraphs in images such as photos taken using mobile devices. Given a set of 17,155 photos related to 14,560 epigraphs, we used a k-NearestNeighbor approach in order to perform the recognition. The contribution of this work is in evaluating state-of-the-art visual object recognition techniques in this specific context. The experimental results conducted show that Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors obtained aggregating SIFT descriptors is the best choice for this task.
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In late 2012 the Dutch biodiversity center Naturalis published a tender for the mass digitization of herbarium sheets. Picturae proposed a solution with an industrial approach consisting of a conveyor belt construction with a fully automated processing workflow. From checking the technical parameters of the digital images to cropping and making all the derivatives. The digital images can be delivered to the network right after scanning. This approach makes it possible to produce high quality digital images without expertise of the operator.
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The article describes in brief the database, developed by IMI-BAS to present the cultural heritage sites in Bulgaria under the protection of UNESCO. This database will be used in an e-learning project currently under development, to integrate additional learning content to the “Man and Society” and “History and Civilization” courses. The project follows a contemporary teaching strategy based on the formal structure of the Understanding by Design approach. In the process of gaining knowledge the pupil is transformed from an object of action into a subject of action. This requires a new educational environment in accordance with the needs and interests of the learners. Such an environment will develop their abilities, and they will become active and productive participants in their own education.
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In the framework of the Belgian BELSPO AGORA 3D and DIGIT03 programs, we have evaluated 3D digitising technologies with regards to the quality of the acquisition, the capacities and limitations of each technique and also the direct cost of the different 3D digitisation processes. It is on this latest topic that the paper is focused. In order to evaluate the cost of 3D digitisation, we considered the time for the digitisation, cost of the equipment and cost of the staff. Our preliminary results show that the real cost by specimen depends on the amount of specimens to digitise. Techniques that appear to be low-cost can be the most expensive in the framework of massive digitization programs, whilst more expensive equipment can be more efficient in the long term. Therefore low-cost equipment is mainly recommended for occasional digitisation or small series of digitisations.
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Bulgarian traditional costume as ethnographic and museological object can be seen as a complex and open system in which the elements and forms are located in various relationships and dynamic development in spatial, temporal and semantic level. In-formation technology development enables pro-innovative Bulgarian traditional costume education based on gamification. Including new approaches to research, description, access and representation of the object, it creates an opportunity for new results and development of scientific and educational process in scientific fields related to this object. Clothing such as a permanent and indispensable element of culture, offers reliable prospects for comprehensive representation of ethno-cultural diversity in its traditional and modern type.
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