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The article presents in chronological order the donations which have come in thespecialized ethnographic archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studieswith Ethnographic Museum. It analyzes the dynamics of the donations, their thematiccontent, territorial range, and the motivation of the donors as well as traces the processof transformation of the personal documents into public socially significant culturalfacts.
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This paper presents a service that is implemented in Cyprus. It consists of three programs and aims at the successful job realization of young people with disabilities. Some of the most important skills and competencies that are provided by the service are described within the text as well as the opportunity the students to have their training period in real working conditions due to the Transition Employment Network that functions as partners of the service activities.
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The article presents the characteristics and functionalities of the new academic online resource Language Consultations on the Internet, developed in the Department of Modern Bulgarian at the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The online handbook has a wide user scope, provides information reliability and efficiency, plays an educational and promotional role. With its flexibility and openness it is another reliable resource for Bulgarian language teaching.
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The paper outlines some approaches that evoke active participation of members of a virtual community in development of teaching materials or for organising and conducting educational initiatives online. The two leading models for virtual products development and elaboration are featured - open-source model and crowdsourcing. Original community-sourcing approach is described, along with some results of its approbation in a virtual community focused on mathematics and computer science education for students.
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This article aims to present most of the main national policies that are oriented towards education and lifelong learning. Different aspects of policies that are revealed focus attention on key issues faced the conditions for increased participation of all ages people in education and learning.The article also presents several programs implemented in Blagoevgrad region, focused on facilitating the transition from the educational institution to the labor market. The analysis is aimed at showing positive and critical moments in the implementation of different programs and projects at regional and national level. The article is based on results obtained by the project under Horizon 2020 program in which the authors participate.
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The paper presents a profile of blended education as a socio-technological network based on an analysis of their contexts of understanding in higher education. The empirical study conducted through the method of surveys with students and faculty members in departments of pedagogy in Bulgarian universities confirms the idea of blended education as a technology and as a world of mediation, as well as the concept of the changing role of mediators themselves. Still, it leaves the issue of its humanization open for discussion. It foregrounds the necessity of investment in forms of education in higher schools as a prototype of the socio-technological network.
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The article discusses the didactic and technological aspects of cloud solutions for creating mind maps. Cloud technologies are a resource for expanding the innovative culture of the teachers and also make more efficient the interaction between the teacher, students and other participants in the learning process. Mind maps are seen as an adaptive tool for planning, organizing, creating, presenting, solving problems, such as communication and a method of memorizing information, which making them a powerful tool for visualizing processes and events studied in technology training.
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The article presents an analysis of the Italian scientific literature acquired in the library collection from its founding in 1888 to 1903, fulfilling one of the main tasks – “to collect and store foreign literature as the most important part of the library’s collections”. Italian scientific editions are one of the five main components of the collection of Italian rare and valuable books in the University Library. The emergence of Italian editions in the first years after the founding of the library is due primarily to the role of Italy in Europe’s cultural history, secondly to the changed geopolitical circumstances that took place after the Liberation. The purchase of Italian scientific and scholarly literature, which fills a gap in the period of the fundamental development of library collections (especially in the field of humanities), is essential for the progress of the University Library and is among the priorities of the newly established Bulgarian University. The largest volume group in the collection of Italian rare and valuable editions is the group of scientific publications. It contains 283 titles in several fields – law, history, philology, philosophy, pedagogy, and philological sciences. Detailed analysis of the Italian scientific literature in the library collections shows that most of the scientific editions in various research fields retain significant.
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The article describes the functionality of the most popular smartphone applications for studying Russian as foreign language. In addition is motivated the need to use such programs for self-learning or as a teacher assistant.
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The article presents the information obtained by interviewing six library specialists in correlation to a current research among primary school teachers. It represents an attempt to specify and measure some aspects of the communication and cooperation processes between representatives of the official educational system and of the libraries which are also knowledge providing organizations. The intersection points reveal the specific professional influences and relations, which impact the formation process of the young readers and the child character as a whole. The text represents just a part of the received data and some of the current tendencies. Initial conclusions: primary school teachers do not recognize library activities as a possible continuation of the educational process and young readers development; financial problems and lack of cooperation between librarians and teachers result in providing pupils with syllabus literature in most cases, thus belittling the library role and reducing its functions to just a provision of texts.
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The way to attract organic traffic to your sites is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and summarizes all techniques and methods to improve your site‘s visibility in search engines. With the advent of new technologies, new search methods, which are based on trends in SEO. Directly connected with it is web analytics, where you can get information on the achieved results.
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The text presents the incorporation in public activities and research paradigms of Russe museum related to the European cultural route “The Roman Emperors and Danube Wine Route”, which turns to be a catalyst of the change in the way of presentation and sharing of heritage in the region. The observations are focused on the historical reconstruction “Roman market” establishing itself as a festival with a focus on pre-modern food. The author follows the images of the Roman fortress, the variants of museum pedagogics, the digitalization and the 3D printing of artefacts, which certify the narration about the past throughout their testimony.The local feasts strengthen local memory and unite communities. They also build social and cultural ties to the place where they regularly happen.The cultural route is important for the processes, which the Rousse museum tries to guide while searching to form of knowledge and compassion on the themes connected to local heritage.
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Since June 17th, 2020 the Corona Warn App of the German Federal Government has been available for download. After a sharp increase downloads stagnate around a total of 20 million, which is roughly one fourth of the population. Whether everyone who downloaded it actually uses it, is questionable. Objectives We want to show that the underlying concept of an app is questionable, even if each inhabitant with a smartphone downloads and uses it, it would cover barely half of each encounter where COVID-19 could actually be transmitted. Prior work This work is the scientific, extended version of a short article we published in the September 2020 issue of the “Behördenspiegel”, a monthly magazine covering German public administration issues. Approach We use statistical methods to show that, (i) even in the very best case with a perfectly working app the coverage would have been roughly half of all relevant encounters (ii) and that the voluntary usage of this app as well as the free decision of the infected individual to publish its (anonymized) data to warn others in fact reduces any effectiveness considerably. In addition we show that (iii) due to the design of the app there is a likely limit where the app will not be able to warn its users for mathematical and cryptographical reasons. Results We demonstrate by statistical means that this app could never have worked and why similar apps neither would work, let aside probably the “Trace Together” initiative of Singapore, which is based on a combination of an app plus physical tokens for those who do not own nor use smartphones (https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/). We define some requirements a successful COVID-19 tracing solution must fulfill. Implications We show that such apps are not a solution for the problem, rather an obstacle to a real solution, because they lull their (few) users into a false sense of security which is obviously wrong, based on real figures. Value The paper contributes to transparency of government action during the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that other ways of contact tracing must be pursued in order to be effective and hinder the pandemic from escalating rather than providing a false feeling of safety.
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The main results of the work of the team of Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the project CLaDA-BG – the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Research e-Infrastructure for Re-sources and Technologies in Favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, Part of the EU Infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, will be presented during the Information Day within the DiPP2023 conference. The main emphasis will be placed on current and ongoing developments and implementations of CultIS - a web-based software platform for the intelligent digital management and presentation of large data sets and knowledge from the field of culture, humanities and social sciences.
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Radio is the oldest electronic media that is the first to reflect technological leaps in the media world. At the end of 2022, the technology based on artificial intelligence makes a qualitative leap and perceptibly enters all spheres of social and cultural life. This is also the period in which artificial intelligence begins to create individual broadcasts and later - entire radio programs. The potential of this new technology to replace the human factor is substantial. This research focuses on the future of radio and the impact of AI technology on radio producing.
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The main purpose of the report is to prove, with historical facts and scientific arguments, that the idea of creating a Bulgarian military academy is not the fruit of someone’s imagination and a thoughtless move by ambitious soldiers, but is the result of long-term work of the most prepared and knowledgeable Bulgarian officers. Training in foreign military academies and the development of military literature in Bulgaria were followed. The need to establish a Bulgarian military academy has been justified.
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New technologies have started to be used in museums and other cultural consumption venues, and the online marketing notion of “phygital” is becoming more and more integrated into the art world transforming an exhibition or a museum. The main factors that have led to the digitalization of art exhibitions and a mandatory presence in the online environment, especially on social media, were the pandemic and the recurring lockdowns that turned our daily life into an online daily life. New technologies are transforming the way we interact with a work of art or an exhibition and how we deliver contemporary value judgments. The new curatorial practices and the organizational practices of an exhibition adapt to the requirements of a public eager for technological and artistic novelty. Through the examples used in the article, I highlight how new technologies transform and retransform the notions of art/non-art.
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