Digitalization of Cultural Heritage

DIGITALIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

І. DIGITALIZATION OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS.
1. Digitalization of museum collections in archeological museums.
2. Digitalization of museum collections in historical museums.
3. Digitalization of museum collections in ethnographic museums.
4. Digitalization of museum collections in natural science museums.
5. Digitalization of museum collections in art museums.
6. Digitalization of museum collections in open-air museums.
7. Digitalization of museum collections and prevention from illegal traffic of cultural monuments.

ІІ. DIGITALIZATION OF THE ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS.
1. Digitalization of archival documents with information about important historical events and processes.
2. Digitalization of archival documents with information about the lives of prominent personalities.
3. Program for digitalization of archival collections in State Agency "Archives". http://www.archives.government.bg/index.php?lang=bg&page=11
4. Temporary virtual exhibitions presented in the Digital archive of the State Agency "Archives" http://www.archives.government.bg/index.php?lang=bg&page=66.
5. European program for digitalization of archival collections supervised by the Spanish national archives.
6. Archival documents in Europeana: http://dev.europeana.eu/
7. Digital cultural and scientific heritage of Europe.

ІІІ. DIGITALIZATION OF THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS.
1. The European project for digitalization of cultural heritage Europeana: http://dev.europeana.eu/
2. Digitalization of the collections of the National Library "St. Cyril and Methodius". (http://www.nationallibrary.bg/digitalna_bibl_doklad.html.)
They are grouped in the following twenty digitalized arrays:
• Bulgarian Historical Archive - Correspondence;
• Bulgarian Historical Archive - Documents;
• Bulgarian periodicals 1878-1944;
• Manuscripts;
• Oriental Defters;
• Oriental old printed documents;
• Bulgarian Historical Archive - Newspapers;
• Original graphics;
• Print graphics;
• Bulgarian periodicals 1844-1878;
• Oriental documents;
• Bulgarian historical archives - chronicles;
• Slavic, Cyrillic printed documents XV-XX centuries;
• Oriental MSS;
• Oriental manuscripts;
• Oriental Sidzhili;
• Cartographic publications;
• Printed portraits;
• Albums and catalogs;
• Bulgarian historical archives - portraits and photographs.
3. Digital resources of the National Library "St. Cyril and Methodius" processed to be provided to the European digital library "Europeana":
http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html.
4. Other digital libraries.

IV. PERSONNEL TRAINING FOR DIGITALIZATION OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVE AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS.
1. Master Program "Management of information resources".
2. Preparations for starting a new master program "Digitization of Cultural Heritage".
3. Activities of the students’ research club "Virtual Museum" - (http://freeplace.info/cprog/virtmus2/main/virtmus.htm).
4. Implementation of the program "Picasso" for presenting on the Internet a small part of the world's rich cultural heritage:
http://picasaweb.google.com/library.and.information.sciences.