Kto się boi Wikipedii?

Author(s): Krzysztof Gajewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2015

According to the opponents of Wikipedia it offers low-quality content and has led to a reduction in the level of literacy. However, studies show that Wikipedia is not inferior to Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of its substantive value, and in terms of content offers a much wider range. Meanwhile, Wikipedia outclasses Britannica in terms of social and geographical coverage because it can be accessed by those who never had a chance to touch a volume of Britannica. In a later section, we discuss the basic principles of the functioning of Wikipedia and its consequences, as well as problems, such as the high competencies necessary to properly use Wikipedia, the declining number of editors, the site’s gender gap and its geographical imbalance.

e-Infrastructures: The starting blocks for Open Science and Innovation. The OpenAIRE case

Author(s): Natalia Manola / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

There is an emerging consensus among the members of the academic research community that eScience practices should be congruent with Open Science, which essentially facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration and data sharing and re-use, entailing Open and Shared Access to research data, data services, tools, analyses, and methods. This short paper presents the key characteristics of a sustainable open science e-Infrastructure as gained from six years of operation of OpenAIRE, a key EU e-Infrastructure on scholarly communication. presented.

New Tourist Service Based on Virtual Reality Glasses in the Town of Miskolc, Hungary

Author(s): Júlia Nagy,Zsolt László Márkus,Gábor Kaposi,György Szántó,Tibor Szkaliczki,Norbert Vass / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

The paper presents how the VR technology helps tourists in selecting their destinations. The current state-of-the-art service is the result of systematic development activities which has become available in the tourist information office (Tourinform) in the town of Miskolc. The visitors can discover the local sights either on the Web site of the tourist organisation, or in the GUIDE@HAND Miskolc smart phone application, or from now on, in a virtual space due to the Virtual Reality (VR) technology with the help of 3D VR glasses and spherical panorama pictures.

Exploring a Relic’s History Through 3D Digitization

Author(s): Feng Zhao,Soo Choon Loy / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

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.

Long Term Preservation of Websites

Author(s): Alexander Herschung / Language(s): English Issue: VI/2016

While websites are of great interest for digital archives, the digital long term preservation of websites is a huge problem. The reason is that websites consist of a large number of file formats and require today’s hardware and software environment to work properly. PABLO is a software tool that processes websites and transforms them into a dramatically simplified form that is simple enough for digital archiving and exhaustive enough to preserve the websites content and appearance and allows users to browse the entire site like the original.

Дигиталната трансформация на читателя – между традицията и модерността

Author(s): Kristina Varbanova-Dencheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The present study discusses the problems of the changes in attitudes of the modern reader in the context of the changed living conditions in a digital environment which is created to transform human society into a knowledge-based society. The thematic scope of the presented study is limited in three aspects of the changes in the characteristics of the contemporary reader, which are provoked by: the factors for changing the media model and establishing its contemporary parameters; the construction of the "digital citizen" and the inevitable change in the educational models that form his digital literacy; the creation of the new digital reader in the knowledge society.

Дигитални масиви в услуга на иновациите в науката: сътрудничество между културни и научни институции в рамките на проект КЛаДА-БГ

Author(s): Dimitar Minev,Ivan Kratchanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

The report analyzes the current initiatives in the field of digitization in the Regional Library “Ivan Vazov” – Plovdiv, aimed at enriching the digital collections and improving their accessibility in accordance with the modern standards and established practices. The goal is to facilitate access to information resources by both humans and machines for the purposes of automated processing. The participation of the library in the CLaDA–BG project is an opportunity for cooperation with research centers with a diverse profile, some of them specialized in the field of information technologies, and this partnership is mutually beneficial. The library can offer a large volume of content to be used by technological partners for the generation of text corpora and for computerized natural language processing (NLP), which is a prerequisite for the development of technologies related to artificial intelligence.

Проблеми при опазването на музикално културно наследство

Author(s): Emilia Boyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

This report draws attention to the issues related to the preservation of music cultural heritage. It is focused on the types of musical documents, with the main focus being on the nature and characteristics of the information carriers – sound recordings and the corresponding sound - recording devices. The problem related to the preservation and storage of the musical documentary heritage by the adopted strategy „from possession to access” is studied. A major trend in tracing the path in the preservation and storage of music collections has outlined new technologies as an element in the preservation of musical artifacts.

Националната библиотека е пазителка на духа български

Author(s): Krasimira Alexandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

Изложба „Календари 1902–2023“ в Националната библиотека

Author(s): Maria Brankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The National Library and Special Collections Department presented an exhibition (real and virtual) of calendars stored in the department. Interesting publications show cultural, natural, religious and historical events and personalities, as well as reproductions of artists, children‘s drawings, etc. The exhibition includes a large number of calendars from the beginning of the last century to the present day.

ПАНДЕМИЯТА И ПОСТПАНДЕМИЯТА ОТ КОВИД-19 И МЕДИЙНИТЕ ПРЕДИЗВИКАТЕЛСТВА В БЪЛГАРСКОТО ОБЩЕСТВОТО

Author(s): Mitko Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered by the coronavirus has unequivocally demonstrated that society as well as every individual and citizen needs strong and competent statesmanship on the part of politicians as well as a genuine and objective media presence for 44 reporting on issues related to civil society and democratic processes. The problems that we as a society and citizens have been confronted with and have been forced to address reveal the real trust or mistrust in the civil society fraught with the deep contradictions of the times in which we live. This crisis has unequivocally pointed to the hesitation in our society to accept and respect the objective truth. The crisis has revealed that as a civil society, we still do not thoroughly assess the challenges we face and that we are far from understanding that the way to surmount and cope with difficulties is universal and common to all humankind. All of us as citizens and as a society need new impulses for truthfulness, civic inspiration, dignity, and creativity regardless of the hardships and new crises, both political and economic, and the new challenges that we and the world, in general, will face. It is because we have to increasingly be stronger as a society and as citizens.

65 години от създаването на катедра „Библиотекознание, научна информация и културна политика“ в СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“

Author(s): / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2018

Anniversary of the Department of “Library Science, Scientific Information and Cultural Policy” at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

Специалност „Библиотечно-информационни науки“. Трудове на преподавателите (2008–2018). Библиографски указател

Author(s): Maria Avramova,Milena Milanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 10/2018

The bibliographic index presents the publication activity of the professors in the „Library and Information Sciences“ specialty for a period of ten years. The leading principle to include the authors’ activity is their belonging to the academic staff of the department of „Library Science, Scientific Information and Cultural Policy“, which provides the educational process and leads the main scientific and research activity in the field of book history, library science and bibliography, information science, information, and communication technologies; the social (cultural) context in which memory institutions exist and function – libraries, museums, archives.

Ефекти от комерсиализацията на научната информация

Author(s): Olya Harizanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2017

The timeliness of this topic is indisputable having in mind the current volume of scientific production and the need for analysing and evaluating the increasing information flow. Of particular interest is the growing tendency to link industries to scientific excellence: on the one hand, in their application in the production of new products (goods, services), and on the other – in the application of new business models for the development and promotion of scientific excellence. Today there is an expansion of the scope of publishing systems, the number of Internet based platforms for the exchange of scientific results, the providers of scientific information (especially in electronic format), open access systems, and the large repositories of scientific products. One of the most pronounced wires for this distribution is the quoted indexes/pointers. They have been recognized globally as a quality, prestige and a wave of significant changes in policies to regulate scientific activities. At the same time, many problems have emerged, both in terms of freedom in the creative process of scientists and in the availability of dissemination systems. In Bulgaria, the problem is particularly relevant and significant. In the areas of natural sciences and technical sciences, the citation of the work of Bulgarian researchers could be identified by foreign scientific databases. In the field of social sciences and humanities, however, this is difficult to apply, and in number of thematic sub-areas – not applicable (e.g. related to national identity or the protection of national interests). In fact, although there are sporadic examples, at present there is no established practice in our country to track the authors' citations and publications in the field of social sciences. This is a real and significant barrier to popularizing the results of Bulgarian scientists as well as maintaining a high level of their scientific prestige. Getting a real idea of the scientific and research achievements of these individuals at present is not possible. The article explores two effects of the problems mentioned above: the emergence of multiple platforms for scientific production (in response to the monopolized market from 2-3 corporations) and the emergence of free access platforms (mostly pirated) to full-text content of costly articles.

Информационна култура на личността в информационното общество

Author(s): Elena Pavlovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2017

The article presents topics such as information society, information culture, and information literacy. One of the constituent parts of a person's general culture is his/her information culture - a set of information knowledge and skills that ensure purposeful independent activity to satisfy individual information needs using both, traditional and new information technologies.

Развитие на библиотечната инфраструктура в България

Author(s): Aneta Doncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2016

Library infrastructure is seen as a part of the infrastructure of culture, education and science in the country. The article reviews the organization of libraries in territorial systems and networks, as well as the availability and development of the hierarchical and coordinative relations between them. An attempt to delineate and expand the notion of library infrastructure – in addition to libraries and library networks are included several components, that are not typical for this infrastructure, but are significant for its develoрment. These components are library education and library science (library research); library associations and library literature and publication (media). The aim is to focus on developing a strategy for library infrastructure that is based on the vision of widely available, high quality and efficient library services that meet the needs of users in today's society.

Limite și provocări în evoluția muzeelor din România începutului de secol XXI

Author(s): Attila Iakob / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2024

Discussions regarding the role and evolutions of museums are not new. In the last decades, the cultural, political, social and economic changes positioned the museum in a tight place, where the need of change and the ways and means of these changes intersected in a complex web of past, present and future issues. The present paper desires to map the evolution and working frame of museums, especially of the Romanian museums, to adapt and integrate their activity in the new requirements of the society and digital age. On the other hand, the paper puts some emphasis on the structural issues and the limitations created by the social, political and economic contexts.

Bibliotečko-informacijske usluge za osobe s invaliditetom u visokoškolskim bibliotekama na primjeru Biblioteke Univerziteta u Sarajevu – Filozofskog fakulteta

Author(s): Nihada Bećirović / Language(s): Bosnian,English Issue: 29/2024

Goal: The main goal of this paper is to examine and analyse in detail the existing services for people with disabilities at the Library of the University Sarajevo – Faculty of Philosophy, physical access to the building, access to the funds, content, and services, and on that track recognize possibilities of further improvement of services for blind and visually impaired users of the Library. Methodology: As a sample for this research the Library of the University Sarajevo – Faculty of Philosophy was chosen to analyse services that the Library offers to blind and visually impaired students, starting from the definition of disability of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and IFLA’s Glossary of Terms and Definitions, followed by IFLA’s Library Services to People with Special Needs Section. This research is based on selected IFLA guidelines Access to libraries for people with disabilities, which starts from the library’s environment, key categories from its physical space to access to materials and services. The paper also discusses the guidelines of the Library for the blind in the information age: Guidelines for the development of functions and services that provide an overview of all significant aspects of library and information services for the blind, from their historical development, legal and strategic frameworks on which such services directly depend, to users, staff, and the development and management of collections and services. Based on the IFLA guidelines, the paper analyses the following key categories: physical access to the Library’s premises, materials, assistive technology, trained staff, websites, and cooperation with other institutions, strategic documents, and evaluation. In addition to international acts, the paper also examines BH key regulations, such as the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination, which explicitly mentions this category of persons. Results: The analysis showed a significant adaptation of services to selected key categories, but also revealed the possibilities of improving these services, which are listed in the Conclusion, and recognized substantial successful segments of serving other users with disabilities, not only blind and visually impaired users. Based on the analysis, in the last chapter of the paper, in the Conclusion, the possibility of applying the framework plan for the development of these services of the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo on other academic libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina is highlighted, and it points to the importance of cooperation with other institutions that serve blind and visually impaired users, and with whom it is possible to exchange resources for work, assistive technology of different types, but also experiences in working with users with disabilities. Originality: This paper presents selected IFLA guidelines for people with disabilities as a theoretical basis. The development of the themed services of this Library can serve as a model for other academic libraries in the BH environment.

Analiza autorstva i saradnje u časopisu Bosniaca (1996–2023)

Author(s): Senada Dizdar,Lejla Hajdarpašić,Lamija Selhanović / Language(s): Bosnian,English Issue: 29/2024

Goal: The goal of this research is to explore the patterns related to authorship and collaboration of authors of the papers published in the journal Bosniaca: Journal of National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 1996 to 2023. Approach/Methodology: During the selection and preparation of the corpus for analysis, bibliographic identifiers of published papers were analysed, and Subramanyam K. formula was used for calculation of the degree of collaboration. A total of 328 papers and 392 authors by occurrence were analyzed (227 unique authors). Results: Identification data of published papers in the period from 1996 to 2023 are gradually stabilizing, and standardization of bibliographic data is accompanied by the strengthening of the international network of authors, and the indexing of the Journal in bibliographic and citation databases. The number of single-authored papers published in the Journal is 85.98%, while the degree of collaboration in Bosniaca from 1996 to 2023 is 0.14, with the number of co-authored papers increasing from 2019. Of those analyzed, the largest number of unique authors comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina (132), followed by the countries of the region (69), and when it comes to the gender structure of unique authors, women are far more represented (159 authors, 70.04%), of which the majority, 88 female authors, also come from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Limitations: This research does not have firm criteria for selecting papers for analysis, also, nonstandardized listing of identification data of paper published in the first issues of the Journal, and manual entry of collected data can affect the research results and possible errors. Originality/value: So far in Bosnia and Herzegovina no bibliometric analysis of Bosnian and Herzegovinian journals in the field of library and information sciences have been conducted. As a contribution to such analysis, this paper presents the first bibliometric analysis of journal Bosniaca: Journal of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Deus ex machina? NFT Technology as a Means of Preservation for Endangered Cultural Heritage

Author(s): Valeria Casillo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This article discusses NFT technology in the context of cultural heritage protection in armed conflicts, addressing both the benefits and challenges that come with their use. In view of the recent example set by the Kharkiv Art Museum, a cultural institution that has digitized 15 artworks to be sold in an auction and whose incomes will contribute to the preservation of national cultural heritage, the present study will delve into both the legal and ethical aspects underlying what is known as NFTs, shedding light on their possible protection under the existing cultural heritage framework. To this end, the provisions enshrined in the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocols will be examined.