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.

Високотехнологична идея за обучение на високотехнологичните ни ученици

Author(s): Ivaylo Staribratov,Boris Mihailov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2017

The present article reviews the possibility of a free access Google classroom application. Employing electronic resources stimulates and motivates students to study and increases their class activity. Such a platform creates opportunities for increased quality in class discussions.Such a training is in full synchrony with the applied new technologies.

LOST IN TRANSLATION? THE ODYSSEY OF ‘DIGITAL HUMANITIES’ IN FRENCH

Author(s): Claire Clivaz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

By examining the case of the French translation of the expression “digital humanities” (DH), this article argues that cultural diversity and multilingualism could be fostered in digital culture. If other languages have been invited and forced to welcome this English phrase, its translations have to be studied since they could potentially have strong epistemological backwash-effects on it. Through an historical etymological inquiry, it can be demonstrated that the use of the outmoded French word humanités is the most significant element in the two French expressions humanités numériques or humanités digitales. This single word opens up a specific space for humanist approaches within the open-ended digital approaches. On this base, the encounter between Humanities and hard sciences can be reconsidered, as it happens already in two examples of new DH masters in French-speaking countries.

Основни видове RAID конфигурации за обезпечаване сигурността на данните

Author(s): Hristo Yordanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2017

Improved data security can be achieved through RAID technology. This text covers and discusses some of the main RAID configurations. For each of them is presented the free disk space it provides, needed resources and the redundancy that every configuration has.

A SHORT HISTORY OF COMPUTER USE AT FACULTY OF PHYSICS – UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Author(s): Mircea Victor Rusu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

For physicists computing is a main activity. Starting from devising an experiment to problem solving with computer, from using mathematical tables to other aids to computation, physics has grown its strength by using each step the numerical computation. So, computing for researches as well as education was used and steadily improved by us, starting from first minicomputers to the last generation of computers and algorithms. In this presentation we will follow, in short, the evolution of computing, hard and soft, in physics at our faculty. We selected here the main field of interests that was connected with problems showing: programmed solutions, simulations and modeling, computer application and software during the time. Such a time recollection is interesting and surprises me as how diverse and far such activity was done. Examples will be from computation in tradition physics, to biology, chemistry, astronomy, medicine to data processing and visualization, data management, to create our own educational software and so on. The fields as nonlinear dynamics, complexity, chaos and fractals, as well as fluid dynamics, atomic, molecular or nuclear physics, earth or stellar physics, connected to improvement of the experiments and devices via artificial intelligence are some of our topics which will be exemplified here.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND E-COMMERCE: CONSIDERATIONS ON DIGITAL MONOGRAPHS

Author(s): Alessandra Di Tella / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

“Humanities”, “Commerce” and “Monographs” are three terms that have been existed for a very long time. Nowadays, they are often conceptualized in a digital way that implies a radical paradigm shift in their main features. The aim of this article is to investigate the possibility of interaction between digital humanities and e-commerce, through their application to the genre of digital monographs. By “digital monograph” we mean born-digital, long-form, media-rich, scholarly publication, that rejects the print-based form (and so the e-book format) and takes advantage of the methods and tools of digital humanities. In particular, digital monographs re-think the traditional textuality of essays; textuality becomes “liquid” and multimodal. Because of publishing, obsolescence, discoverability, use, evaluation, etc. these products must be hosted on a publishing platform that is suitable for the scholarly needs both of the authors and of the final users. The link with e-commerce arises from the need of the publishers to sell the products of research, especially in countries where the academic publishing system is not based on University Presses but on commercial ones. This study wants to reflect on how the economic logic of profit and cultural logic can coexist in a digital publishing platform: is it possible to overcome the “monograph crisis”? What are the major problems that arise when selling an academic monograph? What business models could be the most suitable for this kind of publication? In what way can a publisher improve customer loyalty? The thesis of this article is that digital enhancement of the monograph plays a key role in its sale. The opportunities offered by the digital humanities, in fact, are not only a matter of format; they are, indeed, what makes the substantial difference in the quality of scientific communication. They enable the authors and the publishers to offer the consumer something that neither the print version, nor the e-book can do. First of all, a digital monograph allows a direct link with primary and secondary sources; secondly, it supports different layers of use and wider accessibility. Moreover, it gives both the author and the reader, the possibility to better represent and understand the complexity of the research and of the methods and tools that are used. On the other hand, this article considers the infrastructure for producing and hosting these products and its importance in the development of a cultural community based on scholarly value creation. These are some of the issues that a digital publishing project needs to consider in order to sell its products and become sustainable. After discussing these questions, this article postulates a possible functioning business model of subscription based on the concept of cultural engagement. The conclusions concern the requirement of an editorial workflow that links together all the phases of production, from the author’s composition to the reader’s purchase.

Хайнц Миклас на 70 години

Author(s): Maria Šniter / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

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.

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

За необходимостта от национален цитатен указател и възможностите на университетските библиотеки да съдействат за съставянето му (из опита на Библиотеката при ИУ – Варна, 2014 – 2020 г.)

Author(s): Vyara Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The introduction of new bibliometric indicators for measuring scientific work puts the university and scientific libraries in Bulgaria in the need of creation of databases with citations of professors and scientists in every scientific organization. Each country creates its own citation index. The purpose of the article is to analyse existing bibliographic practises for classifying scientific references and the examine the question for the creation of a National platform to unite them, as well as creating a National Reference Register, in particular one for social studies. It is time for us to decide who will manage the combined citation document resources and how to create a Bulgarian index for scientific citation or a National Citation Index, in general and one for the social studies in particular. Social studies are less represented than the other branches of science, for example, in platforms like Scopus and Web of Science, which are the most influential platforms in the world and publishing and citation in them has more weight in the formation of the minimal national requirements for academic growth. I am using the historical approach and comparative analysis to show the practical experience of countries that have created such Registers and have achieved excellent results. I also offer for discussion a model to build a hierarchical structure for exchange of quoted data. The university libraries need exact criteria which citation to list and how the Bulgarian index for scientific citation in general will be formed, as well as the one for social studies.

Архивите като научна лаборатория и предизвикателство за изследователите в цифровото общество

Author(s): Rusalena Pendzhekova-Hristeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The article presents the problem of archives as a scientific laboratory and a challenge for researchers in the digital society. In terms of content there are two thematic focuses of the study: digital transformation of archives and their information resources; the researcher like a user of retrospective documentary information in a digital environment. Analysis of the problems and challenges that the archival institutions and modern researchers face in the era of digital civilization is made.

Conférence scientifique “Technologies d ’information dans l’histoire et ses sciences auxiliaires”

Author(s): Penka Peykovska / Language(s): French Issue: 1-2/2000

Implementation of the GPS-Tracking System in Bulgarian Military Orienteering Championships

Author(s): Silvia Shandurkova / Language(s): English Issue: 4s/2021

This paper discusses the characteristics and implementation of the GPS navigation system Track sport in the Bulgarian military orienteering championships. The real-time tracking was used to analyze the parameters of the races, the speed and the optimal route choices in the discussed orienteering military events. The research methods were observation and visualization of the data received from portable GPS transmitters which used the available GSM-networks and their software processing for displaying real-time GPS tracking during the competitions. The contingent of the study were 41 women and 64 man who participated in the championships. The analysis reveals the necessity for GPS-tracking of such competitions and that it is an important precondition for improving their quality and understanding

IT tools and strategies in business

Author(s): Grigorina Boce,Tomço Vilma,Alma Hyra / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2022

The focus of this work-in-progress paper is on strategy tools, which is a topic that lately has received a lot of interest in practice. There are various streams of literature of strategy tools, ranging from traditional company-related strategy tools to more flexible and individual-based strategy tools. This paper intends to provide some initial insights into this issue. The aim of this study is to explore managerial perceptions of strategy tools as facilitators of the development of business relationships and networks. Many small companies active in the segment of information and communication technology demonstrate difficulties in terms of expanding their business and increasing the product and service portfolio. In this context, this study aims to apply strategic tools and business model in a micro-segment of the software industry inserted into a huge market competition and low entry barriers. The research questions are: a) What are the perceptions of managers of strategy tools as facilitators of developing business relationships and b) how can combinations of strategy tools facilitate the development of different kinds of business relationships? In this paper, the first research question is initially explored empirically. The empirical part of the paper is based on qualitative case studies of ten companies, and more particularly on the perceptions of the managers within these companie. Businesses in all sectors are facing a situation where technology is changing the landscape around them, transitioning from the back room of an organization into the hands of customers, employees and society. Faster development cycles, disruptive business models and increased competition are highlighting the increasingly essential role of technology and automation in business. This means that the success of business relies heavily on the optimal utilization of technology.

Rediscovering urban intelligence within cities by technologies

Author(s): Mauro Romanelli / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2021

As drivers of economic and social growth, and engines of innovation, cities develop urban intelligence relying on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a source to ensure high quality of life and improve processes and services. Smart cities and smart communities help build urban intelligence within cities aiming to proceed towards urban sustainability and promoting innovation and knowledge creation. Cities identify smart and intelligent solutions to facing and solving urban problems, by using the potential offered by information technology to drive innovative processes and proceed towards sustainable urban growth. Information technology helps cities to rediscover the meaning of community as an organizational framework that fosters collaboration within urban spaces. Local government, business, education and citizens understand the potential of information technology in order to transform the community in significant ways through collaboration. Intelligent cities as communities promote technological innovation and encourage people to work for achieving urban sustainability. As engines of innovation, cities as smart communities proceed towards urban intelligence by developing the urban community as an intelligent city which rediscovers a pathway for growth and knowledge, innovation and value creation.