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

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Authors: Antonella Fresa, Claudio Prandoni

The huge amount of digital cultural heritage data is growing every day thanks to the digitisation programmes carried out by cultural institutions. These data should continue to be available in the future to anyone who wishes or needs to access them. This is a very important challenge memory institutions have to face nowadays, and several questions need to be answered to this regard: How will we ensure the long-term preservation and access to our digital information? Who should select which digital data should be saved? How will we successfully store and migrate data as technology evolves? Understanding of digital preservation requires consideration of two main aspects: organisation and technology. Several projects have been funded in the last years to work on these topics by the European Commission. This paper presents the work that is being carried out in two of these projects: DCH-RP and PREFORMA.

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Authors: Mariella Dimiccoli, Petia Radeva

In this paper, we give an overview on the emerging trend of the digitized self, focusing on visual lifelogging through wearable cameras. This is about continuously recording our life from a first-person view by wearing a camera that passively captures images. On one hand, visual lifelogging has opened the door to a large number of applications, including health. On the other, it has also boosted new challenges in the field of data analysis as well as new ethical concerns. While currently increasing efforts are being devoted to exploit lifelogging data for the improvement of personal well-being, we believe there are still many interesting applications to explore, ranging from tourism to the digitization of human behavior.

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Authors: Ruta Petrauskaite

The paper presents Lituanistika, a multifunctional, multilingual, interdisciplinary (within the scope of social sciences and humanities) and international database in the area of Lithuanian studies. As Lithuanian studies involve scholarly works on the past and present of the Lithuanian state, society, culture, nation, and language, the builders aim at collecting, digitizing, evaluating, preserving, analyzing and disseminating (providing access, Open Access included) current and earlier research of various genres of the selected topic from all over the world. The paper describes the historical context and the reasons for its compilation, its gradual growth and improvement during three phases of its formation in 2006-2014, as well as its status quo and plans for its further development and application. It also deals with the issue of multifunctionality and tackles the question of compatibility of the various aims of the database.

91-97

Authors: Ivan Ivanov, Cvetina Hantova, Maria Nisheva, Peter L. Stanchev, Phillip Ein-Dor

The aim of this paper is to review some methods for text authorship attribution and to discuss the development of a software library with tools for automatic authorship attribution. The presentation is focused on an analysis of two groups of tools oriented to: (1) methods for extraction of features and (2) methods for computing the distance between character strings based on data compression algorithms.

109-120

Authors: Zsolt László Márkus, Gábor Kaposi, Tibor Szkaliczki, Detelin Luchev, Radoslav Pavlov

The paper presents the newest developments in integrating Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library (BIDL) and the tourist mobile application family named as (GUIDE@HAND). The integration made it possible for collections to be created by the user at the BIDL Web page and then downloaded to the GUIDE@HAND Veliko Tarnovo application by using QR codes. This year, a new standalone offline mobile application (BOOK@HAND) was created providing information on icons available in BIDL where the collection presentation functionality of the former system was enhanced with new features. The main novelty of the application is the option to present collections in a virtual exhibition room by using panorama pictures in off-line mode.

127-134

Authors: Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Maxim Goynov, Detelin Luchev

Information and multimedia technologies that have been developed during the past couple of years provided new e-tools to memory institutions (viz. museum, libraries, galleries, etc.), reviving the valuable treasure made by generation of people. Digital libraries (DLs) are such powerful contemporary tools for cultural heritage presentation, preservation and archiving. However, DLs power will increase significantly if they use mechanisms for ubiquitous sharing of their e-artefacts and they distribute attractive content in the social networks, reflecting community demands and needs. This paper presents a service for automatic sharing of iconographical artefacts and full collections from the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library to selected Facebook communities. In this case the service will be used for widely promotion of knowledge about East-Christian Iconographical Art and Culture, but I could be used not only for this and not only in this domain.

141-155

Authors: Magdelena Stoyanova, Tibor Lukic

In easel painting (icons) mapping the status of conservation (MCS) is a complex process of prospecting in various spectral, graphic, and spatial techniques, integral analysis and “technical” visualizations of the data whose function is to lay out detected damages or symptoms, not directly perceivable from the VIS, UV, IR or X-r imaging. In this work, the results of a multi-methodological survey applied to the end of detecting sharp discontinuities (boundary of cavities, wrinkles and fractures in the host medium) are illustrated. As, due to the microscopic size and depth of a crackle/wrinkle fragment or net, it may be rather difficult to single out its position and extent because of the generally low signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio, binary image segmentation and high-resolution data acquisition has been adopted for improving the visibility of the studied area.

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Authors: Konstantin Rangochev, Maxim Goynov, Dilyana Radoslavova

The article offers an annual report on the activities of the users of the electronic Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum (http://www.eslavsanct.net), an online multimedia digital library of Bulgarian written, oral, and visual materials concerning the Orthodox Christian calendar and sainthood. The report is based on statistical data about the actions of the library users and outlines the main tendencies in the use of the database.

195-207

Authors: Ivan Derzhanski, Olena Siruk

In this study we examine the occurrences and correspondences of terms for blood kinship in a Bulgarian–Ukrainian parallel corpus of fiction. All instances of the terms selected for study, matching and non-matching, were located and counted, and the frequencies compared. Several interesting asymmetries are found, some due to differences in the structure of the kinship systems, which in turn have roots in culture and history, others reflecting diverse features of language and the practice of literary translation.

219-226

Authors: Zsolt László Márkus, Gábor Kaposi, György Szántó, Tibor Szkaliczki, Miklós Veres, Zsolt Weisz, Werner Routsalainen, Detelin Luchev, Radoslav Pavlov

The paper presents an offline mobile application (INFO@HAND) providing in-formation about the DIPP conference series for conference participants and scientists interested in the conference scope and topics. In order to support the participants of the international conference, the application contains an event calendar, provides information about the presentations (including the abstracts as well), the presenters, locations and the organiser(s), presents the call for papers and the important deadlines, a map with the conference locations, etc. The offline application is more than a conference guide because it can also present conference materials (presenters and papers) of the preceding years, thereby representing a scientific knowledge base.

243-255

Authors: La Ta, Feng Zhao, Soo Choon Loy

The mobile digital museum built by the Inner Mongolia Museum has been in operation for a period of two years. During these two years, it has received overwhelming responses from all age groups of audiences and all walks of life. Besides documenting the process of building China’s first entirely mobile digital museum (with no physical artefacts), this paper aims to share the experiences and achievements attained after two years of service.

267-273

Authors: Nemanja D. Savic, Dušan B. Gajic, Radomir S. Stankovic

This paper discusses an implementation of a multimedia projection system with two synchronized video sources, based on the Raspberry Pi singleboard computer systems. The system is primarily intended for various projections in presentation of historical and cultural heritage, although it can be used for many other related purposes. The considered multimedia system has two projection surfaces - a horizontal projection plane and a 45° inclined special glass projection plane which creates the hologram-like Pepper’s Ghost effect. Each plane displays a separate high-definition video obtained from the corresponding Raspberry Pi. Synchronization of presentations is achieved using custom connection through the general purpose input/output (GPIO) connector of the Raspberry Pi and the wiringPi interface library. As valuable aspects of the system, we can point out the following. From the practical point of view, the system has low cost due to the use of Raspberry Pis. Generation of a holographic effect, as well as larger flexibility in creating the contents of the presentations due to the two projection surfaces, are additional attractive features.

285-292

Authors: Vladimir Georgiev

With the emerging Internet technologies, the need for rich and interactive web content has drastically increased. The presentation of information in an attractive way is extremely important for fields like digital libraries, eLearning and e-Commerce. This paper describes a set of tools we developed for adding visualization of 3D content to new and existing web pages, which can be used by authors with various expertise and skills. Once embedded into a web page, this functionality becomes available on all modern devices and web browsers, without the need to install any additional software.

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Authors: Stefan Bozov, Elena Zaharieva-Stoyanova

This paper considers problems related to the development of knitting software for manual knitting. The support of error handling in knitting software is important for the users. The paper introduces an XML-based approach which allows recreating limitations due to the knitting technology. Each of them represents a Rule which contains certain conditions. One condition describes, allows or doesn’t allow combinations of stitches. The XML-based limitation scheme is developed for building on CAD systems for manual knitting. The users of such software applications could be: people who are interested in knitting as a hobby; editors of knitting hobby magazines; ethnographers who deal with the area of old traditional costumes and manual knitting.

321-330

Authors: Magdelena Stoyanova, Detelin Luchev, Lilia Pavlova, Irina Provorova

Technical visualizations (TV) of easel painting, both partial or extended, are typically concerned with prospecting its structure, technique, material composition and eventual posterior interventions in order to facilitate the mapping of its characteristics being identical to those of other similar objects. For both types the main challenge is being able to integrate and compare the significant increase in the quantity and quality of image-based data resulting from rapid technological advancement in recent years. Their second critical component matches the algorithm of logical processes that, in principle, should be followed by analysis of a specific artistic technique on a unique artefact. The third crucial point is the translation of interdisciplinary to schematic or imagebased data and the standardization of dictionaries used to enable their sharing. TVs are functional to the understanding of complex cases and, although the reliability of their issues is not absolute but only a nulla osta, they represent an important step towards the drastic reduction of errors produced by discontinued, fragmentary experiments in dating and authentication of easel painting.

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Authors: Lilia Pavlova, Vladimir Sapundjiev

This paper presents the overall structure and the functional specification of an interactive environment for digital preservation and preservation of fashion objects connected with digital data repository, developed to serve the students’ learning needs of the National Art Academy.

359-360

Authors: Simeon Marlokov, Maria Karadecheva

This demo covers the concept of preserving our historical consciousness in the vast and never stopping world, attracting the attention of younger generations by creating a game connected to different historical heritage sites.

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Authors: Peter Stanchev, Guenoveva Jecheva, Radoslav Pavlov

The paper discusses in brief the Open Access (OA) Initiative, the European Union’s and the main Bulgarian activities in this field. The discussion question for the Sixth National Information Day: Open Access to Scientific Information and workshop are outlined.