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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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In the article, the author investigates 24 musical manuscripts belonging to former Miners’ Orchestra of Wałbrzych (Waldenburger Bergkapelle), which used the sources for concerts of the orchestra. The analysed manuscripts have not yet been researched or catalogued in RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) database before. The ensemble’s repertoire was analysed and the collection’s characteristics, including copyists, watermarks and stamps, were examined. It allowed to assess the provenience of the manuscripts and make certain remarks about the type of repertoire played by Waldenburger Bergkapelle. The results of the analysis were presented in the context that can be found in secondary sources, widely describing the activity of the orchestra. The author also carried on cataloguing in Warsaw University Library, creating the catalogue in the Muscat RISM system. Considering the numbers on shelfmarks, it can be assumed that the original collection contained circa one hundred of musical sources. However, only a small part of them is known and catalogued. Therefore, the knowledge of the collection remains incomplete and is worth further investigation.
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Edward Mąkosza (born on 13th November 1886 in Lisków, died on 25th April 1973 in Częstochowa) was a Polish composer, pedagogue, conductor, organist and ethnomusicologist. He was the main organiser of the musical life in Częstochowa. He is an author of circa 1000 compositions. He received numerous commendations and was a hero of the Jasna Góra Monastery. The article, presenting Edward Mąkosz’s biography, is to serve as an intro-duction to the comprehensive study of his work. The subsequent periods of his life (childhood, youth, professional work until World War II, professional work after World War II) are discussed. Then, we focus on the composer’s broadly understood activity: social, pedagogical and artistic undertakings. The article aims to show the professor’s entire life.
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We briefly describe Wikidata, its importance for GLAM institutions, iconographic authorities in Mix-n-Match. Then we propose an Icon Knowledge Graph Model comprising the entities: iconographer, iconographic school, herminia, icon, measurements, material, technique, iconographic subject (saint or a title of the Virgin Mary), location (city, monastery, church, museum), scientific article, academic journal, issue, links to LOD datasets (e.g. VIAF, Getty AAT, ISBN, ISSN, academia.edu). Then we introduce the Virtual Encyclopedia of Bulgarian Icons (BIDL) and describe how we ex-ported it to Wikidata, while coreferencing to iconographers, saints, locations; and the extra info we added for such entities. Finally, we describe a conversion to the Europeana Data Model, including details such as links to Wikidata, bilingual descriptions, language tags, providers. The online version of the paper includes live links; the accompanying presentation includes more images and queries.
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The paper I’m presenting is based on a topic that has so far been studied little in Albanian archivistics. The first attempt in the field of Albanian archival thinking was conducted by Dr. Kujtim Nuro on his PhD thesis “Aspects of Archival Thought in Albania 1506-1912”. The emergence of modern archival thought in the first half of the 20th century does not exclude the conceptual clashes, what should be understood and is understood during the historical development process with “documents and forms of existence, manner of construction, conservation mode and its functions. As a consequence, the Albanian archival thought is ancient, that the “archival concept” was the “document” itself. Modern Albanian archival thinking as institutional theory and practice has preceded the establishment of an institutional archival state alongside the institutionalization of the Albanian state from 1912 until today. In the period 1912-1944 the foundations of archival thought were laid in our country. In this period as well as in the world practice, the “Archive” has experienced scientific and institutional treatments, and due to the necessity of national, international and social institutional communication, the archival opinion of the time was a necessity, the establishment of this activity on legal and observable levels. The entire history of archive development in this period has found deep and concise historical treatment in the “History of Archives in Albania” and Dr. Ivan Loli (Tirana, 1999). Based on the historical archival history of Albania and the world, after the second world war, with the establishment of a state of a different nature, archival thought was not left behind, and in the function of inter-ministerial communication, by the order of the Council of Ministers in 1949, of the State with multiple functions in the field of document handling “as the historical memory of the nation”. The archival Albanian opinion of the state of dictatorship and the closed society was dealt with by M. Pela in the “Archive Manual” of 1984. In this period, the theory and practice of archives marks levels comparable to the European ones and the Albanian archive became a partner and cooperative with many European archives. The communist-era archivistic’s opinion laid before the central bodies the need to raise the qualification of employees on an institutional scale. After the 1990s, the archival thought, in the period of state overthrows, has passed and has been in existence before existentialist situations, as everywhere and in the archive field there was a possibility of annihilation. Archival thinking has preceded these situations, and as a result of the opening of the society “archives from closed and scary institutions” became “open institutions in a free and open society” where besides the institutionally legitimized functions they started to play an important role, in function of non-institutional but also a civil service.
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After research conducted at the National Library of Kosovo “Peter Bogdani”, respectively in the Department of Special Collections, we found that this institution possesses a considerable number of Latin collections. The content of these collections is mainly of scholatic, educational, historical and religious nature. The period of these publications ranges from 1474 to 1955. It is to be emphasized that most of these collections are mainly of historical, cultural, educational, vocabulary, grammar and exercise content. Much of them are books donated by prominent personalities of culture, science and studies such as Kristë Maloki, Shaqir Kastrati and others. But there are also purchases from individuals. They are currently used by library audience only for study and research aspects. Given the importance of these collections, they are classified in the special fund of rare and old book collections and are considered a rarity. In addition to the original books, some of these collections have copies. In this paper we have attempted to provide basic bibliographic data and content.
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The historic collection of the University Library in Toruń in its fundamental shape was formed after the World War II, based on the so called restricted collection, i.e. primarily the books from the former German libraries. To Toruń came mainly books from Eastern Prussia and Pomerania. Substantial part of the post-German collection came from Szczecin, including the books kept until the World War II in the Library of the Marian Gymnasium, which continued the tradition of the princely Pedagogium. The Szczecin collection came to Toruń shortly after the military operations of the Wold War II came to an end, either directly from Szczecin or via Pęzino, where they were evacuated by the German administration in order to protect them from the Allied bombings. Single books of Szczecin provenience were bought by the University Library in Toruń also in the subsequent years. In the Toruń university library we house today eight manuscript codices from the Marian Gymnasium Library in Szczecin. All the manuscripts came into being in the modern period, from the late 16th century until second half of the 18th century. Seven of them represent the domains of law, medicine, and theology. Their content reflects the then state of thought and is a perfect source material for studies into the history of science. The eighth one contains the library catalogues and inventories, and is particularly precious for the researchers of history of the Szczecin Gymnasium and its Library.
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The architectural motif in the form of an arch-oncolumns, the titular “temple facade”, decorating the discus of late antique lamps, has been the subject of debate and various interpretations of the meaning without reference to the rendering or the lamp type. An examination of known examples of lamps with this particular motif has identified four different lamp type variants and two main renderings of the decoration. Ovoid lamps bearing a representation of an arch-on-columns, the most numerous among the finds, come mostly from Constantinople and nearby cities, the Black Sea coast and the Danubian sites, the sole exceptions being Egypt (where they appear also in a late variant), Cyprus and Byblos. Reconstructing the distribution of these types and renderings has introduced some “order” into the existing hypotheses and highlighted issues connected with understanding the booming economy of the Pontic area as well as the recently rebuilt Danubian limes fortresses, during their apex, in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. It has also contributed to the discussion aimed at ending the widespread use of the term “Balkan lamps” for products that represent the output of Pontic and Danubian workshops influenced by the Imperial capital in Constantinople.
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The paper considers some terracotta lamps from recent rescue excavations by the Sinop Archaeological Museum in ancient Sinope, classifying them by types and chronological groups, from the 2nd century BC to the 7th century AD. The lamps represent part of the local lamp-making tradition, which is underinvestigated although equally important as the amphora production industry in this eastern Paphlagonian city.
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This article aims to provide an overview of the use of network analysis methods in law and to discuss the use of these methods for legal information retrieval. For this purpose, it contains the theoretical basis for the functioning of network analysis, but the focus of the article lies more in the categorization of ways of using this method in the application to legal sources. The purpose of the overview is to emphasize the differences of this method from other statistical methods and especially to highlight its advantages. Based on these conclusions, the author discusses the suitability of using network methods for easier and more generally accessible legal information retrieval and suggests some specific methods of how network analysis could help in working with legal information.
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The article briefly presents collections with donation inscriptions from the personal library of Prof. Stoyan Karolev, stored in "Zachary Knyazheski" Regional Library - Stara Zagora. Presented collections include copies of donation inscriptions by Radoi Ralin, Blaga Dimitrova, Andrey Germanov, Damyan Damyanov, Veselin Andreev, Stanislav Stratiev, Ivan Davidkov, Mihail Toshkov, D. Chavdarov-Chelkash, Pencho Danchev, Atanas Natev, Encho Mutafov, Alexander Milanov, Kamen Zidarov, Ivan Paunovski, Ivan Sarandev, Vihren Chernokozhev. In addition to revealing connections between the literary critic and a great number of important names in our literature and culture from the 1950s to the beginning of the 2000s, donation inscriptions are valuable in their authentic handwriting and in their content, which testifies the authors' attitude to cultural phenomena and polemics, the excitement in their first steps, the development of their creative self-consciousness.
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In order to complete the first grade works in the discipline of technological education and practical applications, I conducted a research that aimed to find out how effective the learning process is, by using computers and smart devices, as well as how students reacted in different learning situations and different time periods (from the beginning of the pandemic until the end of the 2019 – 2020 school year).
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During the information day, the results of the work of the IMI-BAS team on the project CLaDA-BG, the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Research e-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies in Favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, Part of the EU Infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, will be presented: the development of the Humanities and Social Sciences Data Storage, Retrieval and Curation Environment (CHCS-DSRCE) and its implementation in the Digital Library "Virtual Encyclopedia of Bulgarian Iconography" and for the needs of the "Ivan Vazov" Regional Library in Plovdiv and “Peyo Yavorov” Regional Library - Burgas.
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Overall, there are 400 song types mentioning a wolf in the Latvju dainas tradition. A lot of songs show the wolf as the main subject of the song, although there are many songs where it is one of the participating animals. Some of the songs show the wolf as a personified animal, acting like a human. Among activities performed in this state there are singing songs, playing a pipe or a bagpipe, dancing, getting married, baptizing the wolf ’s son. As the first folklore researchers considered such animal activities childish, the song types describing them are found in the first volume of “Latvju dainas”, incorporated in the cycle “Education of the child, nursing and teaching”. As a musician and singer the wolf is described in approximately 50 song types, the most important is song type LD 2686, included in the subgroup “birds wedding”. The word “bird” has some semantic peculiarities evident in the opposition of “undomesticated birds and animals” vs. “domesticated animals and people”. Quantitative analysis shows that this type contains 40 variants (having 20–60 lines each), which K. Barons divided into 14 versions. The wolf is mentioned in 20 variants, 9 versions, the wolf blows pipes and bagpipes (16 variants), starts singing (1 variant), slaughters a cattle (1 variant), guards horses (2 variants) during this common meal. In addition to the wolf in these 9 versions there are 21 bird, 9 mammals, 3 reptiles, 2 insects. A wedding meal appears in the story, consisting of beer and meat, meaning that all birds and mammals, including a hare, are considered carnivore. In the group of classical quatrains (approximately 15 song types) the wolf is shown a) as a bridegroom at his wedding party – his bride is a fox, b) in their family life, c) how they get ready for their son’s baptizing with a hare as a godfather. A number of textual variants of Christmas game (38 variants) and some quatrains show the wolf as a suitor going or riding to take a goat as a wife. There the wolf fights alone against people and domesticated animals (masking, breaking promises). The wolf personified as a dancer is described in approximately 20 song types. The most interesting of them is LD 2206, included in the same children’s cycle. It is a long song type, too, containing 21 variant being divided into 17 versions. Of 9 full-length versions (16–24 lines) the wolf is mentioned in 6. The plot of these songs shows an event reminiscent of the Canadian Indians – potlatch, i.e., gift-giving. In this gift-giving everybody and everything may take part – people, animals, natural objects, mythological beings – and the wolf is the last gift-receiver. Each of these song types relates to a certain historical period and different worldviews. * “Latvju dainu” personificēto dzīvnieku tēlojumā risinātas daudzas un dažādas cilvēku sadzīves un sociālo attiecību problēmas. Rakstā mēģināts sniegt ieskatu, kā vilka tēls izmantots svarīgu un svinīgu dzīves brīžu tēlojumā: ko tas dara kāzās, kristībās, īpaši uzsverot funkcijas kā muzicēšana, svētku galda gatavošana, dejošana, līgavas izvēle un kāzas, bērnu audzināšana. Nosacīti nodalītās četrās dziesmu kopās skatītas personificētā vilka un tā apkaimes (dzīvnieku fona) saskares jomas: apģērbs, dalībnieku kvantitatīvais sastāvs, valodas lietojums, personifikācijas pakāpe, dalība dāvanu apmaiņā.
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In accordance with Romanian legislation regulating the conservation-restoration activity, the restorers elaborate sets of normative regulations depending on their specialization (i.e., restoration of mural painting and painting on wood, of polychrome stucco, of wooden decoration, of stone and plaster decoration, of metal, of stained glass, etc.). The present essay presents the rules and principles to be followed when elaborating the general normative regulations, which should be then adapted to the specificity of the conservation-restoration works of different artistic components belonging to historical monuments. Likewise, it is argued throughout the essay that the legislation concerning the drawing-up of technical-economic documentation should be harmonized with the specificity of works on artistic components of historical monuments.
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The article presents the development of the concept of a library cooperation in the world and in Bulgaria, from its inception until today. Special attention is paid to the creation of the first library consortium for cooperative database subscription – Bulgarian Information Consortium. Its 20-year history and main aspects of activity, applied governance modes and achieved results are tracked. The conclusion about the possible, albeit difficult to achieve, success of private initiatives for a library cooperative is substantiated.
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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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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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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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