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.

Проектът „Образование в пиксели“ – идея с продължение

Author(s): Daniela Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

DIGITAL ECONOMY AND HUMANITIES

Author(s): Liana Stanca,Christian Schuster,Corina Moldovan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

As editors of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, we are proud to announce the publication of the third issue of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, the first Romanian academic journal dedicated entirely to the Digital Economy and Humanities research and practice. The main aims of Studia UBB Digitalia are motivating and promoting the research in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Economy and Humanities, especially in Europe, in general, and Romania, in particular. Publishing a new journal on Digital Economy and Humanities is indeed an audacity, given that the field is still seen, after decades of evolution, as an odd hybrid between seemingly incompatible realms of scientific endeavour. Bridging this apparent dichotomy has been the focus of many researchers in the economy, humanities and the computer sciences for the past 50 years, but still the boundaries between the realms exist and grow strong, especially in the institutional practice of universities. Trying to break this barrier proves to be even harder in Romania, where the classification of “traditional” fields of scientific research dictate the distribution of research funds and the evaluation process of research output. Chances are, if an historian publishes an article on his research using computational methods in a journal for computer sciences, that his or her results cannot be “capitalised” in his own field; likewise, computer scientists may see their work in Digital Economy and Humanities not accounted for, if published elsewhere than in well-known CS journals. Digital technologies in economy area have impacted the modern workplace and stimulated the evolution of new forms of management. We are interested how big data and digital technologies are changing how we work and the world we live in. The digital phenomenon is multifaceted and changes the way organizations compete and innovate. It threatens long-lasting business models, and opens up new ways of creating and capturing value. As such, it is not only clearly relevant for management and IT&C practitioners, but also centrally important for management scholars. Digital Humanities and Economy: digital economy is an interdisciplinary field that also uses contributions from digital humanities: big data to understand narratives and plots, methods such as algorithmic analysis of text / videos, advanced visualization techniques, 3-D mapping of texts, digital economy tools for analyzing business and management content, communications, and behavior. The digital humanities sit at the crossroads of computer science and the humanities.

BETWEEN MYTH AND STEREOTYPE: THE METHOD OF STUDYING THE IMAGES OF RUSSIA IN THE VISUAL MEDIA CULTURE OF JAPAN

Author(s): Yulia V. Yashchenko,Anatoly V. Yashchenko,Anastasia S. Fadeeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The main sets of symbols of Russia in the visual media culture of Japan are formed in the XX century. This period was saturated with military conflicts and under the conditions of a bipolar political system; reactionary images with noticeable militaristic influence were formed. This study was performed on the materials of visual media culture in Japan, sources such as anime and manga were studied, in which a high concentration of Russian images is observed. During the study of these sources, a complex of several hundred visual and verbal images of Russia was identified, which seems to be a unique phenomenon. Since such an interest in the country-opponent in foreign policy issues is nowhere else observed. The purpose of this study is to identify markers that denote the space of Russian images in individual visual sources and determine their place in the media culture as a whole. Accordingly, the main objective of the study became the development of methods based on approaches of Digital Humanities and Visual Studies. This study allows us to determine the most economically viable images of Russia in the Japanese media industry and makes it possible to use the results of the research in Russia’s state image by stimulating Japan’s visual media culture sector for representation the most auspicious images.

III Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa „Człowiek – Informacja. Książka. Media”, Toruń, 15–16 marca 2018 r.

Author(s): Mariusz Balcerek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Aim: The aim of the text is a brief presentation of the conference that took place on March 15-16, 2018. At that time, the 3rd National Scientific Conference entitled: “Man – Information. Book. Media “ took place at the Collegium Humanisticum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (hereinafter: UMK) Its organizer was the PhD Student Scientific Circle ePRINT, operating at the Institute of Information Science and Bibliology of Nicolaus Copernicus University. Research method: The author participated in the symposium sessions, listening to all speeches, additionally asking questions during the discussion. Results/Conclusions: The conference is a great initiative for young scientists, who thanks to it can test their skills in this type of activity; it was the fourth edition of this congress. Unfortunately, the overall positive impression was spoilt by a few speeches of low quality that should not have been allowed to be delivered.

Digital and Print Hybrids

Author(s): Jarosław Kopeć,Izabela Koryś,Dominika Michalak / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

In 2014 the National Library of Poland commissioned a survey to create a typology of Internet users. Building on that typology, the authors of the present article examine what role literature sourced and read online plays within reading practices. Their focus on the social adaptation of modern technology, on issues related to reading literary texts online, on diagnosing how the Internet facilitates access to literature, and on situating digital practices in the context of analogue ones.

Трета международна научна конференция „Компютърната лингвистика в България“ – традиции и перспективи

Author(s): Svetlozara Leseva,Ivelina Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

Первый международный сетевой исследовательский проект учащихся в рамках MITE

Author(s): Maria Shabanova,Marina Belorukova,Roza Atamuratova,Veselin Nenkov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2016

One of the goals of the International project “Methodology and Information Technologies in Education (MITE)” is to create conditions for identification and support of young talents. A proven effective form of activity is the International Competition “Mathematics and projecting”, which is quite popular in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Russia. In 2016 the competition celebrated its 10-th anniversary. This year for the first time the competition program included the nomination “Network Research Projects”. The project “Geometry Scrabble in Cloud” was awarded first prize in this nomination. It was prepared by an international group of students from the three countries: Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Russia. The present paper summarizes the students’ work and presents the organizational methodology of the communication during the preparation of the project.

Fuzzy Logic

Author(s): Reinhard Magenreuter / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2016

There are four backbones to analyze time-series in general and forecasttime-series for financial markets: Chaos-theory, Fuzzy logic, Neural networksand Genetic algorithms. The first one is considered in (Magenreuter, 2016a), whilete third one in (Magenreuter, 2016b). The present paper is dedicated to the secondone analyzing posibilities for its application. Some results are discussed in promisingoutcomes.

DIGITAL CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY

Author(s): Rada Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The forth issue of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia focuses on digital classics and ancient history. The initiative was rooted in the Digital Ancient History and Archaeology workshop hosted by the Babeș-Bolyai University in June 2018. Some of the papers published herewith were presented there, while others are later additions, which we believed best-fitted to the thematic of the volume in order to help us render a more thorough image of what studia digitalia in these fields mean today.

TREEBANKING LUCIAN IN ARETHUSA: EXPERIENCES, PROBLEMS AND CONSIDERATIONS

Author(s): Petar Soldo,Petra Šoštarić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The article discusses some problems that arose while implementing two sets of annotation rules for treebanking Ancient Greek (the first set by Bamman and Crane, the second by Celano). Educational uses of treebanking are discussed, together with the most common problems that occurred while treebanking the Iudicium vocalium by 2nd-century writer Lucian of Samosata.

THE USE OF RELATIONAL DATABASES IN EPIGRAPHY: A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Silvia Gazzoli / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The study of an abundant number of inscriptions leads to the conception of schemas and forms that can be organized into databases. This procedure allows us to arrange information with precision and to draw data and create connections between them in quickly and easily. For this reason, the relational database model has proved to be a valid support, as it makes possible to arrange data and information logically according to pre-established constraints and relationships, reducing errors and repetitions. The aim of this paper is to present an example of the use of a relational database created to catalogue inscriptions and highlight the positive aspects and difficulties found out during the process. The complexity of this method is mostly related to making choices about entities and identifying relationships between them; another obstacle is connected to the complexity of inscriptions as group of words and formulae. Nevertheless, the relational database allows the researcher to mix up data and information and create new relationships between them using SQL operators. The software used for the case study that will be presented in this paper is an open source administration and development platform pgAdmin (for PostgreSQL).

ROMANS 1BY1. A DATABASE MANUAL

Author(s): Rada Varga,Annamária – Izabella Pázsint,Angela-Cristina Lumezeanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The present paper has the goal to document the usage of the Romans 1by1, a database which records the people attested in the epigraphic sources coming from the Roman provinces; so far, we have registered Dacia, Moesia Inferior and Moesia Superior in full and are currently working on the epigraphy of Pannonia. The information started to be collected in 2015, and it is still in progress, the intention being to extend the geographical area as much as possible. The database represents an extremely useful resource in the study of ancient population, as well as a very user- friendly research tool, which allows primary browsing and selective, advanced searches alike.

BUILDING LIFE COURSES AND EXPLAINING LIFE CHOICES WITH THE HELP OF DIGITAL PROSOPOGRAPHY

Author(s): Vlad Popovici,Rada Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Digital tools have enhanced the possibilities of historical prosopographic researches, bringing to light facts and connections unnoticed before. Showcasing two very different databases – in structure, timeframe and employed sources – we will try to highlight how structured data can prove useful and revealing for the prosopography of the people living in all historical periods and areas. In order to make our point, we will first present the two databases from architectural and technical points of view, then we will focus on case studies extracted from each of them. The aim is to highlight the gain in historical knowledge brought forth by the employment of digital tools and technologies and how these means actually increase our insightfulness when facing the sources.

PANTHEON 3D. AN INITIATIVE IN THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIGITIZATION OF ROMANIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE

Author(s): Anca Timofan,Călin Șuteu,Radu Ota,George Valentin Bounegru,Ilie Lascu,Radu Ciobanu,Dan Anghel,Cătălin Pavel,Daniela Burnete / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The Pantheon 3D cultural programme is the most ambitious initiative in the field of new technologies applied to archaeological heritage carried out by the National Museum of Unification in Alba Iulia, one of the few at national level. In concept, the programme aims to render valuable the Roman artefacts belonging to the museum, using interdisciplinary methods. Via modern technologies and 3D documentation, Roman art works are digitized with the goal of accomplishing a virtual collection and a 3D interactive platform. The Pantheon 3D exhibitions and publications offer examples of three-dimensional models using specific techniques of non-textured rendering of surfaces, useful within studies of art history and as virtual models for artistic and iconographic interpretation.

DIGITAL CLASSICS OUTSIDE THE ECHO-CHAMBER: TEACHING, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, GABRIEL BODARD AND MATTEO ROMANELLO, EDITORS, LONDON: UBIQUITY PRESS, 2016. ISBN (PAPERBACK) 978-1-909188-48-8 – BOOK PRESENTATION

Author(s): Angela-Cristina Lumezeanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This volume reunites several papers from the Digital Classics, a relative narrow field of Digital Humanities. Some of the chapters were among papers presented at seminars in London and Berlin, however most of them were especially drafted for the present volume. The volume targets scholars in Classics, Archaeology and History, but the editors believe it will also be accessible to teachers and students, as well as non-academics with an interest in the topic.

Електронен учебник по „Обзорни лекции“ за държавен изпит в средата DisPel

Author(s): Asen Rahnev,Boyan Zlatanov,Evgeniya Angelova,Ivaylo Staribratov,Valya Arnaudova,Slav Cholakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The paper presents the design, authoring and implementation of anelectronic textbook in the Overview Course for the preparation of the written stateexamination for students from program „Information technologies, Mathematicsand Educational Management“ in Plovdiv University „Paisii Hilendarski“, BranchSmolyan. The textbook is created in the Distributed e-Learning Platform – DisPeL.The paper describes the specifics of the course, the adaptation of the learning contentand the implementation of the learning process in DisPeL.

Диалог на културите

Author(s): Anna Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The article examines the personal library of the alleged Bulgarian translator and poet Mara Belcheva. There are a number of spaces valuable and unique editions with autographs and inscriptions in the collection, as well as a number of works of classic and contemporary European authors and rare editions dedicated to Bulgaria and translations of famous Bulgarian writers. Special books, which are part of the library of M. Belcheva are bibliophile editions, including the prominent luxury edition of Friedrich Nietzsche –Also sprach Zarathustra (1908)

За развитието на здравната информация

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

Eine exemplarische Studie zur Nutzung von Anglizismen im Aufmacherartikel einer deutschen Tageszeitung

Author(s): Hans W. Giessen / Language(s): German Issue: 5/2019