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The article treats the incorrect in terms of methodology use of artworks as a ‘credible source’ for reconstructing architectural sites in ruins. Medieval representations from Veliko Tyrnovo treated in scientific publications form the first group. Enough arguments have been adduced pertaining to their specificity of typologizing images following particular iconographic patterns. Hence the second group is accentuated, containing drawings and engravings by West-European artists of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries with regard to Philippopolis (Plovdiv), Kyustendil and Sozopol. Significant discrepancies are witnessed showing that these artworks wouldn’t also evince strict topographic descriptions. Furthermore, western artists have inevitably reproduced any situation premising on their experience got from their own environments, perception, knowledge, etc., i.e. foreign cultural stereotypes underlie these works. An artwork is in itself a reflection depending on historical, cultural, and individual factors. Using such a category of pictorial material in gathering information about the respective sites, might lead to replacing direct by indirect evidence and an ensuing series of interrelated assumptions. Against a backdrop of the recent massive construction and reconstruction works carried out on Bulgaria’s heritage sites, individual instances are dealt with of ignoring the original artefacts, which results anew in creating fakes thus irreversibly damaging the authenticity of cultural values.
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This study traces the history of the conservation of the Roman tomb in Silistra, unearthed in 1942. The earliest conservation works were led by experts from the National Museum, Sofia. A number of either unpublished or less known records attesting to the interventions and covering the trends in the preservation of the mural paintings at the tomb over the last seven decades are presented. The grave problems facing the protection of such monuments in this country are due to the flaws in the system of protection of Bulgaria’s heritage sites for want of a sustainable strategy. In such a discouraging context, entrusting the management of the tomb to Silistra Municipality in 2011 could prove to be a step in the right direction. From that moment onwards, local authorities in their own right, enlisting professional organizations and experts to help, have been able to initiate and coordinate all forthcoming initiatives related to the protection of this exceptional monument.
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Egyptian blue is one of the oldest synthetic pigments. It has a particular property – when excited in the visible spectrum to emit strong infra red radiation. The effect is called visible-induced luminescence (VIL). The luminescence of the pigment is so strong, that allows imaging of very small, sometimes almost invisible quantities in the paint. This non-invasive method for identification of the pigment is used in investigation and conservation of cultural properties. The publications on the subject to date are focused mainly on objects in museum collections. The article explores some practical aspects of the imaging of the VIL on wall paintings, both in-situ and in collection or storage. Two case studies are presented: the wall paintings in the late antique tomb in the town of Silistra – examination in situ, and a wall painting fragment from the so-called “Red Church” near the town of Perushtitsa – examination in conservation studio. Different equipment was used as alternative to the one in the publications to date. The results of the examination in the two case studies are compared. The use of different equipment and conditions of imaging are explained and evaluated. The results demonstrate that alternative equipment can be used successfully in VIL of Egyptian blue. The technique can facilitate the examination and documentation of the pigment in conservation of wall paintings and archaeological objects. The method is used for the first time in Bulgaria.
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This paper discusses how 3D digitization of cultural properties and modern interactive methods can help museums disseminate, educate and share the rich history, culture and civilization of museums’ collection more effectively than traditional methods which used visual boards.
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The article is a summary of a multi-year research into certification of bells of 16th - early 20th centuries collected as a result of liturgical instruments study of 287 bell towers, churches and museums. Analysis of archives from Belarus contributed to the research resurrecting knowledge about lost bell heritage. This is also the first attempt to discuss the establishment of digital Belarusian Historic Bells Archive and introduction of campan handling basic trainings into educational programs of religious educational establishments.
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The priceless knowledge from the scientific periodicals, published by Bulgarian museums, has fallen into oblivion over the years. In the era of electronic information, the opportunity arises this once lost knowledge to be made Open Access - free of all restrictions on access. Upon digitilization and correct annotation of the museum paper editions followed by providing them on the Internet for free access, there will be offered scope for a more comprehensive study of the Bulgarian cultural heritage, an integral part of which are the works of its researchers. Registering content in platforms such as Europeana / Bulgariana and setting common standards to facilitate finding the information will be the next challenge for the followers of the idea of cultural heritage digital repositories.
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The studying of the monuments and complexes in Tarnovo, as well as some other examples in its vicinity give us some strong points for determining of earthquakes and provide data for developing a digital model for this natural phenomenon in the urban environment, in accordance with the specific natural characteristics.
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Precondition for the overall preservation of the archival and documentary material is the systematic and regular control of the record management system, i.e. control that records and documents are properly managed. Especially important is the control of the implementation of corresponding archival legislation in record management departments and offices in order to permanently preserve the archival heritage. Archival institutions are those authorities that keep control in the creating bodies, public or private equally. Free access to archival documents represents a rather delicate issue of professional and public conflict for archivists, i.e. the archivists have to make a decision between the prescribed recommendations and actual right to access to documents that are not accessible for the time being, due to many different reasons. The pressure for the access to documents in archives is getting stronger, the communication and information technologies for information exchange more sophisticated and in addition to that the ICA took a stand that archival material create a heritage and the memory of a State and thus a memory of a Region and the World. In such circumstances, the archival and administrative authorities need to define what documents will be classified as state secrets and what documents will keep the personal integrity protected. In other words, the State needs to define what are the documents created by sensitive state bodies that do not comply to the archival legislation in the sense that they are not free accessible for the public inspection.
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The paper interprets the term total archives, gives its theoretical explanation and possibilities of its practical implementation in Canadian theory and practice, which is highly valued in the world. Its distinctive feature is reviewed as positive because of its value and significance for preservation of memory totality of a community or a region. Croatian and Slovenian archival theory and practice has headed in similarly basic direction for more than a half a century. More that half a century ago, archival theory and practice in this region was developed independently from other models. Nevertheless, by comparing the principles of total archives strategy with the archival theory and practice in this region, one can notice the basic correspondence of basic archival activities. Implementation of this strategy extends the range and increases the volume of the archival records which become an object of interest to archival profession. Thus, the paper emphasises the importance of multi-level contextual appraisal of archival records in its intra-povenancial and extra-provenancial context. lntra-provenancial context consists of a creator in its narrow provenancial environment. Extra-provenancial context consists of aggregate social, political, economical and cultural environment of the creator. Some of the records could be significant in a broader context from a local to the global level. The perception of the archival records being a part of the world heritage also includes both contents and meaning of total archives strategy. In fact, it recommends a wide documentation of historical development and all the areas of the life of a community, and such a wide trail of a certain time period attempts to preserve and convey to the generations to come valuable material and non-material heritage.
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The article investigates cultural and educational activity of Omsk and Novosibirsk intelligentsia in the years of reorganization on the example of local offices of the Soviet fund of culture work. On the basis of office work documentation, materials of the periodical press the author shows the role of the scientific and art intelligentsia in the broadcast of collective historical memory, preservation of historical and cultural heritage and local history promotion. The article considers the main activities of the organization in Omsk and Novosibirsk and undertakes their comparison.
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The aim of the present article is to present modalities of visuallylocating the areas of specific intervention within heritage buildings, usingvector graphics and bitmap image software, employed in the framework ofpreservation-restoration documentation
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Digital libraries have a huge role in sharing cultural resources. Digital departments are almost in every significant cultural institution in Poland. All of them have the same primary objective, namely protection and securing the national heritage and serve as an access platform for digitized content for all users, including students. Academic Digital Libraries are also an important tool of promoting the achievements of their employees inside scientific community. Their overall shape and effectiveness is affected by in addition to formal factors such as IT infrastructure, and legal factors, cooperation with University units – institutes, research libraries. Pedagogical Digital Library of Pedagogical University of Cracow was used as an example to present the role and and activities of scientific libraries in creating virtual didactic platform, with particular emphasis on the promotion by PBC’s scientific achievements of its employees (exhibition websites, conference materials), as well as international contacts (contacts with Kitaplığı Atatürk Public Library, Istanbul, Turkey).
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Nowadays, numerous digitalization initiatives are undertaken to make physical artifacts of cultural heritage more accessible. Collections of literature for children have been also digitalized. Article presents possibilities of searching for literature for children available at two Polish digital libraries: National Digital Library Polona and Wolne Lektury and two aggregators of electronic collections: European Digital Library Europeana and Polish Digital Library Federation. As an example of making literature for children more accessible the International Children’s Digital Library was presented. Most of found resources for children in digital libraries is dated on XIX and XX century.
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The article is devoted to the fate of the collections which once belonged to the Lviv-based Library of the Wiktor Baworowski Foundation. It presents the activities of Wiktor Baworowski, the posthumous history of the collections that he gathered, and the question of the collections of the Bavorovianum, which remained in Lviv and which due to the post-war change of borders were incorporated into The Lviv National Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine. The article is focused above all on the collaboration of the libraries of Wrocław and Lviv, which involved the project of the digitalisation of Polish collections which remained in Lviv. A 19th-century copiarium which heretofore was not processed, containing inter alia the poems of Anna z Mycielskich Radziwiłłowa, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa and an anonymous diarium describing the path to Dresden served as an example of a work derived from the Baworowski Library which was digitised and made accessible in the internet database. The description of its content facilitated the underscoring of the significance of the processes of digitalisation which enable researchers to study valuable manuscripts access to which was difficult earlier.
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“Waldenburger Heimatbote” has been published since 1949. The periodical is addressed to the German displaced persons from Wałbrzych county, who left Lower Silesia after 1945. The author is going to make a presentation of the periodical and to characterize those its elements which cultivate the memory of the past and rescue from oblivion the people, facts, places of the former Wałbrzych, and also to emphasize the importance of this type of press for the local communities.
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The aim of the article is to discuss the most valuable military-related collections held in military libraries in Poland and in the world. The article will present the history of the Marshal Piłsudski Central Military Library in Warsaw (henceforth referred to as CBW) in the context of the most valuable collections associated with the Polish army and the broadly conceived military sciences that were gathered during the period of more than ninety years. The further part of the article provides a few examples to present the collections of military libraries (with particular reference to special collections), functioning all over the world. The final part of the article will discuss the activities of the digital military libraries.
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The term cultural heritage refers to the body of the heritage of societies produced in the process of historical development, passed from one generation to another. Its scope includes both material and non-material elements. Cuisine constitutes an important component of the second group. It is an indicator of the richness and variety of culinary heritage. Therefore it is no wonder that the state and self‑government authorities along with regional tourism organisations create initiatives whose purpose is to create an inventory of the local culinary resources and their use to promote local production in the food market, also as a value which generates the movement of tourists. Therefore it is worthwhile to observe the extent to which tourism based on the resources of culinary heritage develops. The aim of the present work is to demonstrate the model of using culinary heritage in tourism, prepared on the basis of research in subject literature and the analysis of the use of selected traditional products in Upper Silesia within the framework of the tourism-related offer of the region.
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