Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage. Conference Proceedings

51–70

Authors: Nektarios Moumoutzis, Marios Christoulakis, Stavros Christodoulakis, Desislava Paneva-Marinova

Digital storytelling is an engaging learning environment that gained worldwide popularity over the last years. It offers a rich cross-curricular learning environment within which children design, create and present their own stories and develop many skills including literacy, presentation and communication skills as well as inquiry-based learning and digital skills. In this paper we present a new way of digital storytelling, a form of dramatized storytelling inspired by the rich tradition of Shadow Theater. This form of storytelling showcases an engaging way of renovating cultural heritage with the use of digital technologies. It combines a number of digital tools for the production of the digital stories covering all five phases of film making: scenario development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution. eShadow can be used (a) to create digital shadow puppets, and (b) to set up, perform and record the scenes of the digital story (production phase). This way, digital story creation is wrapped around engaging learning scenarios, playful improvisations and creative learning. eShadow has been extensively used to support cross-curricular learning mainly in Greek schools. It is extended to support marionette-like interactions to promote its use in countries with relevant storytelling cultures.

83–86

Authors: Malvina Rousseva

The paper presents the key challenges that we faced in the creation of the serious educational game “The Thracians”. We had to choose the most appropriate architectural environment and methodology to apply in all stages. The selection of historical facts, archaeological and artistic artefacts for the Thracian civilization was based on Thracians lifestyle, beliefs and traditions that will provoke students interests and wish to play the game.

93–98

Authors: Evita Pilege, Sandra Plota

The aim of the paper is to outline the main challenges and opportunities for creative industries in age of data economics and characterize the Latvian Colleges of Culture project “Data design training programme” that is aimed to overcome the problem with lack of professionals of specialists in business data visualization.

105–108

Authors: Elena Pavlovska

The term „grey literature“ is used for documents disseminated through non-traditional channels. As a general rule, these documents are accessible outside the book publishing and distribution system. In recent years, this kind of literature is in high demand, in so far that the "grey documents" often contain most up-to-date information. They are stored in institutional electronic archives – repositories. In the report is introduced the most popular electronic archive - Open Grey and the repositories of the Balkan countries, incl. Bulgaria.

121–132

Authors: Magdelena Stoyanova,Diego C. Stoyanov, Lilia Pavlova

Conservation of historic painting requires comprehensive and correct information to be analyzed during the diagnostic and decision making process in a systematic and rational approach. This paper aims to contribute for the setting of an optimal working process tailored for digital image processing of historic painting research documentation, to be used also in other interdisciplinary areas. To the end it integrates the purely algebraic approach with expediencies derived from the specific scientific background of multidimensional and multimodal images of different types (MMI). Following key tasks have been addressed: 1)Presentation involving non algebraic methods whose main advantages are the functionality to the objectives of the scientific study, the relatively reduced computational complexity and the possibility of parallel processing of MMI; 2) Simulation of new digital expedients based on developed methods by using test databases containing different types of MMIs; 3) MMI analysis based on non-algebraic intelligent segmentation methods that expand the possibilities for proper detection, recognition and evaluation of the changes in the surveyed objects; 4) MMI processing based on adaptive interpolation, which is of small computational complexity and provides high quality interpolated areas (objects) in 2,5D, facilitating the decision-making process on the basis of the relevant information. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches in terms of scientific functionality, accuracy of the diagnosis, and low computational complexity is demonstrated with examples of applications to typical real data in the respective subject area.

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Authors: Galya N. Georgieva-Tsaneva, Negoslav Subev

The report presents the technologies, tools and methods for achieving accessibility of information databases containing annotated information for people with disabilities and in particular people with visual deficits. An overview of existing web accessibility standards is made. Suggested approaches to achieving web accessibility in development of digitized information databases and software systems for processing and analyzing digitized information. The findings were used by the authors to create a model of digitalised database of physiological data.

159–164

Authors: Elena Zaharieva-Stoyanova, Damyan Beshevliev

This paper views problems related to the development of crochet software. It presents an approach for developing a software module representing crochet symbols for describing basic and advanced crochet stitches. The purpose is to develop a functionality that creates advanced crochet stitches made by combinations of basic ones. The module can be embedded in a crochet software to facilitate the process of crochet pattern design. The application is oriented to digital representation of crochet patterns, a part of old traditional costums and homemade textiles.

171–176

Authors: Irina Fierascu, Radu Claudiu Fierascu, Iulia Florentina Dana-Negula, Ioana Popitiu, Gabriel Rustoiu, Constantin Ioan Inel, Alina Ortan

The presented project aims to provide practical solutions for ceramic and paper artifacts, based on new antifungal recipes, in order to reduce the impact of biodegradation of cultural heritage artifacts. The developed recipes, specific for each type of support material (ceramic and paper), will be based on the use of soft nanomaterials, applicable in the form of xerogels or spraying. The recipes will take into consideration the interaction between the developed materials and the support materials.

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Authors: Yanislav Zhelev

The standards are crucial part of any activity on nowadays life. The necessity of education about standardization is already recognized at European level. As the culture sector evolves and changes, so do the skills required of individuals active in the sector. These changes can only be met by relevant and demand sensitive vocational and continuous vocational education and training (VET and C-VET). Application of the standards for information security and risk management systems in the digitization of cultural and scientific heritage and its preservation and relevant presentation is an issue of key importance. The current paper presents the main outcomes and results achieved so far in the framework of the Erasmus+ Project “International Standards training in VET for promotion of market relevant education” – ISTRA No 2016-1-BG01-KA202-023738 aiming at the development and piloting of innovative training approaches and contents for VET and C-VET training on two widely applicable series of standards - ISO/IEC 27000 and ISO 31000.

207–212

Authors: Radovesta Stewart

The following article presents the first steps towards the digitalization of the museum collection with artefacts, found over a period of 65 years in the archaeological site Aquae Calidae in the district Burgas Mineral Baths. The text includes representation of the data model and platform structure, which will offer further look into the process of digitizing movable cultural heritage and the compatibility with Bulgarian legislation

221–224

Authors: Vladimir Georgiev, Alexandra Nikolova, Emanuela Mitreva

In this paper we describe how Unity and Shield UI frameworks are used for building the three-dimensional object rendering section of an online knowledge management system for human anatomy. 3D models of humans are organized in multiple levels of hierarchy and each component contains different types of related information. To allow seamless navigation, like searching for and selecting a specific organ, and viewing its medical description in several languages, developers would need to rely on an optimized and stable framework that can target web browsers as well as other platform builds. The specific requirements of this project called for trying the Unity package for building our 3D rendering scene and exporting it to the WebGL platform to make it available to its viewers on all mod-ern web browsers. To build the rich web user interface and bring high-level user experience to the viewers, the Shield UI framework is integrated on top of the Unity webgl build.

235–240

Authors: Peter Stanchev, Milena Damyanova, Yanita Zherkova, Zlatina Karova, Guenoveva Jecheva, Radoslav Pavlov, George Simeonov

The paper draws current state of Bulgarian Open access (OA) activities and discussion points for the Ninth National Information Day: Open Science, Open Data, and Open Access.

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Authors: Maria Todorova, Teodor Martev

Museum Space is an end-to-end Museum Management Software Suite developed to help Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) make the World’s Cultural Treasure accessible to and meaningful for all. Museum Space utilizes Sirma Enterprise Platform (SEP), a comprehensive open-source platform with a service-orientated model-driven architecture (SOA, MDA) for high performance and reliability in the cloud. SEP incorporates open source components and semantic technologies which are used to implement enterprise content management (ECM) applications covering document and collaboration management, business process management, semantic search, optical character recognition (OCR), image annotation, managing email correspondence, security and permission management, integrations with legacy systems, etc. The semantic technology allows representing highly interlinked data and application of data scheme updates without increasing implementation and maintenance complexity.