Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (ISSN: 2367-8038)
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018

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Title: The Concept of Prof. Atanas Bozhkov for the Interior of the Church "St. Dimitar"
Authors: Mirko Robov

Abstract: The article discusses the proposals of Prof. Bozhkov for the restoration of the church "St. Dimitar" and its destiny.

Keywords: Archeology, Monuments of Culture, Church "St. Dimitar"

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Robov, M. (2018). The Concept of Prof. Atanas Bozhkov for the Interior of the Church "St. Dimitar". Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 11–17

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Title: Educational Opportunities of Multimedia products of Educational-Methodical Complex on the Subject "Music" (Author D.A. Rytov), Aimed at Preserving the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Russia
Authors: Dmitrii Anatolyevich Rytov

Abstract: The article presents the resources of the teaching tool on the subject of "Music" for educational institutions of the Russian Federation aimed at preserving Russia Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Keywords: Education, Digital Teaching Tool, Digitization of the Non-material Cultural Heritage

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Rytov, D. (2018). Educational Opportunities of Multimedia products of Educational-Methodical Complex on the Subject "Music" (Author D.A. Rytov), Aimed at Preserving the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Russia. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 18–29

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Title: Technology and Resources to Implement the Method "Story Telling" for the Presentation of National Cultural Heritage
Authors: Maria Dimova, Detelin Luchev, Desislava Paneva-Marinova

Abstract: This article presents technologies, approaches and means for realizing the "story telling" method for presenting a national cultural heritage. The main features and features of the approach and ways of using it for learning purposes are discussed. As an example are shown, digital booktrailers, relevant and applicable in the limitation of the presentation of subjects or courses in the field of humanities.

Keywords: Digital Resources of Cultural Heritage, Story Telling Method, Digital Learning, Digital Booktrailers

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Dimova, M., Luchev, D., Paneva-Marinova, D. (2018). Technology and Resources to Implement the Method "Story Telling" for the Presentation of National Cultural Heritage. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 30–37

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Title: Digital and Physical Accessibility of Tourist Places in Bulgaria
Authors: Negoslav Sabev, Galina Bogdanova

Abstract: People with disabilities are humans as all others. They have their own biological, intellectual, cultural etc needs. Satisfying those needs is often hindered by the lack of understanding and adequate physical and digital access to the corresponding resources, buildings, institutions and organizations. This article considers the present state of flowing processes in the tourism, and the accessibility of the Bulgarian tourist places.

Keywords: People with Disabilities, Research, Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Physical, Digital, Sensorial Accessibility

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Sabev, N., Bogdanova, G. (2018). Digital and Physical Accessibility of Tourist Places in Bulgaria. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 38–58

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Title: Forum of Three-Dimensional and Computer Graphics – VISION. The Intersection Point of Artistic Circles, Education and Industry
Authors: Svetoslav Angelov Kossev, Atanas Dimitrov Markov

Abstract: 3D Graphics Forum - VISION is an annual edition for 3D and Computer Graphics (CGI). It has been held since 2004 and is a unique project for the Bulgarian scientific and artistic scene. The forum is a working link between education, the activities of NGOs and business representatives, creating a synthesis and dialogue which provides a broader range of ideas across society. The mode, "Forum", we consider to be most beneficial in attracting groups of stakeholders to achieve more direct business access to the education and the specialists generated by it. And vice versa, education is "see how the land lies" to the processes taking place in this dynamic industry, which is experiencing constant "hunger" for specialists. There are some conclusions in the article, resulted from the experience gained in organizing eleven VISION editions of the last 14 years have been made.

Keywords: Forum, Three-dimensional Graphics, Computer Graphics, VISION, 3D, CGI, Art, Education, Industry, "St. Cyril and St. Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Kossev, S., Markov, A. (2018). Forum of Three-Dimensional and Computer Graphics – VISION. The Intersection Point of Artistic Circles, Education and Industry. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 59–66

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Title: Scientific Heritage of the Geological Institute at the BAS: Scientific Journals, Monographs, Geological Maps, and Collections
Authors: Iskra Lakova, Lubomir Metodiev, Kamen Kamenov, Valeri Sachanski, Georgi Granchovski

Abstract: A review of the scientific geological heritage of the Geological Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is here presented. It was collected, studied, stored and presented for the last 70 years. This heritage is in the form of open-access scientific journals and monographs, various geological maps of Bulgaria, as well as published and well-documented systematic fossil collections.

Keywords: Scientific Journals, Monographs, Geological Maps, Fossil Collections

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Lakova, I., Metodiev, L., Kamenov, K., Sachanski, V., Granchovski, G. (2018). Scientific Heritage of the Geological Institute at the BAS: Scientific Journals, Monographs, Geological Maps, and Collections. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 67–79

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Title: Nestor Markov and his Contribution to Education in Mathematics During the National Revival
Authors: Stoyan Kapralov, Penka Ivanova

Abstract: Nestor Markov’s work as a teacher and his very important textbooks in mathematics, which are indicative for the education in schools during the National Revival are presented in this paper.

Keywords: Teaching Mathematics, Textbooks in Mathematics, National Revival

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Kapralov, S., Ivanova, P. (2018). Nestor Markov and his Contribution to Education in Mathematics During the National Revival. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 80–91

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Title: The Church "St. Dimitar" in the Town-planning Environment of Tarnovo /12-13 Century/
Authors: Mirko Robov

Abstract: The article discusses the significance and symbolism of the church "St. Dimitar" within the capital in the 12-13th century.

Keywords: Archeology, Monuments of Culture, Church "St. Dimitar"

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Robov, M. (2018). The Church "St. Dimitar" in the Town-planning Environment of Tarnovo /12-13 Century/. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 92–109

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Title: Challenges of Preservation, Digitalization, and Presentation of Tangible and Intangible Bulgarian Church Heritage in the Interaction of Secularization and Desecularization Processes of 20th and 21st Centuries
Authors: Liana Galabova

Abstract: Achievements of Bulgarian state policies in the field of cultural heritage management and their various social effects in the contexts of 20th century’s dilemmas depend on the development of local echoes from global modernisation processes set in precedent centuries. Nowadays post-modern and contemporary dynamically changing realities trace cultural contexts that actualise and resacralise valuable elements from forgotten traditions, appropriately documented and passed to other generations as a potential, sometimes even as balance to dominating, but inevitably changing social trends. Proportionally to the steadily increasing scholarly and public attention devoted to the church segment of Bulgarian cultural heritage, perceived by the representatives of the traditional denomination as religious, as well as national identity, it is worth preserving the opportunity or reactualisation of such extremely marginalised and reinterpreted contents from the repository of local cultural heritage.

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Modernization, Secularization, Desecularisation, Sacred Monuments and Sites, Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, Pilgrimage, Art

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Galabova, L. (2018). Challenges of Preservation, Digitalization, and Presentation of Tangible and Intangible Bulgarian Church Heritage in the Interaction of Secularization and Desecularization Processes of 20th and 21st Centuries. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 110–149

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Title: Pasportisation of Bells from Grodno Region Belarus
Authors: Elena Shatko

Abstract: The article is written based on the historic materials and research carried out during visits to Orthodox churches around Grodno oblast with the aim of certification of the preserved bells. Attached is the table of liturgical instruments that have preserved inscriptions of their single or numerous benefactors, fragments of artifacts and written records. In conclusion the author advances the initiative of founding the first museum of bell in the Republic of Belarus.

Keywords: Bell, Certification, Bell Fund, Orthodox Church, Church Bell Museum

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Shatko, E. (2018). Pasportisation of Bells from Grodno Region Belarus. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 150–177

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Title: Release Rank According to the Manuscripts № 48, 50 and 52 Stored in the Scientific Archive of BAS
Authors: Galya Todorova

Abstract: Manuscripts stored in the Scientific Archive of BAS, which include so-called vacation formulas, cover the period from the middle of the XV to the end of the XVI century.
The formulas are according to the holidays of the week and the annual liturgical cycle.

Keywords: Manuscripts, Liturgical Cycle, The Holidays, The Formulas, Redaction

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Todorova, G. (2018). Release Rank According to the Manuscripts № 48, 50 and 52 Stored in the Scientific Archive of BAS. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 178–192

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Title: Three Emblematic for the Bulgarian Perception of Indian Persons 20th Century
Authors: Violina Atanasova

Abstract: Among the persons from the Indian history, politics and culture, who are known by the Bulgarians and left a trace in the Bulgarian memory, three names (those of Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi) stand out. They have turned to symbols of India, which contributed to the shaping of the perceptions about this country and to the permanent place that it takes in the Bulgarian vision of the world.
The main purpose of the current research is the deeper analysis of their images and the changes of their interpretations with the time. An attempt is made to answer questions such as – what are the premises for such a wide popularity of those people in Bulgaria; in what social and political conditions does the change in their images take place and in what way are they used in the Bulgarian reality.

Keywords: XX Century, Rabindranat Tagor, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Bulgarian Perception

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Atanasova, V. (2018). Three Emblematic for the Bulgarian Perception of Indian Persons 20th Century. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 193–213

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Title: The History of the Thracian Bulgarians in Documents. Culture of Memory
Authors: Gabriela Vaptzarova, Darina Ilieva

Abstract: The collection of documents for the history of Thrace is part of the rich academic documentary heritage preserved in the Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. This collection has an extraordinary historical, scientific, cultural and long-term reference value. It contains material about the history of the Thracian organization in Bulgaria since its establishment at the end of the nineteenth century until the dissolution of the Union of Thracian cultural and educational societies in 1977. The architectural documents and the memories of the founding of the Thracian Institute of Sciences are preserved, above all with scientific, research and collection activities related to the history of Thrace. As a result of the long-term activity of this scientific institute, we now have the richest source base on the subject.
The chronological boundaries of the documents in the collection cover the period from the end of the 19 to the nineties of the 20 century. The volume is 150 archive boxes. Structural materials are organized into several main sections: history and activity of the Thracian organization before and after 09.09.1944; accompanying structures such as the Thracian Youth Union and the Thracian Affairs Fund; scientific works, memories, reviews, papers and sources to study the past, life, culture and revolutionary struggles of the Thracian Bulgarians from Eastern and Western Thrace; personal funds of activists of the Thracian revolutionary and cultural-educational movement; a large amount of photo material.

Keywords: Archive Documents, Thracian Heritage, Bulgarians History

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Vaptzarova, G., Ilieva, D. (2018). The History of the Thracian Bulgarians in Documents. Culture of Memory. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 214–222

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Title: The Role of Modern Information Technologies in Preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Authors: Kaloyan Nikolov

Abstract: The present work examines the role of information technology in preserving the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The ability to digitize, archive, promote, and popularize through new information technologies gives a new look and a fundamentally new approach to passing the traditions from generation to generation.

Keywords: Folklore, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Digitization, Traditions, Customs, Information Technology

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Nikolov, K. (2018). The Role of Modern Information Technologies in Preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 223–228

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Title: Pilgrimage of Believers with Special Needs at the Heart of Holly Mountain of Sofia City – Study and Paradoxes of a Mission Almost Imposible Today
Authors: Mariyana Shabarkova-Petrova, Liana Galabova

Abstract: Resent requirement of elementary accessibility of church monuments at the historical centre of Sofia city for visitors, dwellers, servants, pilgrims, and tourists with difficulties is still a social challenge providing experts and responsible institutions with opportunities to seek new decisions. Actual inaccessibility of temple spaces to believers with disabilities, difficulties, special needs, and unequal social status limits spiritual messages and pastoral care that is to be directed to the expectations, rights, and attitudes of local members of the prevailing traditional denomination, but also to all tourists from the country and abroad. Complex access to sacral spaces is considered all over the world to be natural part of religious attitude to pilgrimage; still the concern facilitating visitors of any kind to sacred places as much as to tourist sites, remains equally irrevocable part of spirituality and civility.

Keywords: Management of Tourist Sites, Pilgrimage Safety, Integrated Religious Tourism, Eastern Orthodox Christian Church Monuments, Human Rights of Disabled, Disadvantaged, People with Special Needs and Difficulties, Church Management

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Shabarkova-Petrova, M., Galabova, L. (2018). Pilgrimage of Believers with Special Needs at the Heart of Holly Mountain of Sofia City – Study and Paradoxes of a Mission Almost Imposible Today. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 229–269

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Title: Introducing Digital Bell Objects in Web Based and Mobile Applications: "BellKnow" and "BOOK@HAND Bells"
Authors: Galina Bogdanova, Nikolay Noev, Detelin Luchev, Zsolt László Márkus

Abstract: This article presents a research on the presentation of Bulgarian cultural resources at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) in the field of campanology. Problems have been investigated for representing bell-type digital objects in web-based and mobile applications. A standalone offline mobile application BOOK@HAND Bells was created in cooperation with Institute for Computer Science and Control at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI), based on the integration of the Web archive on the Bulgarian bells (Multimedia Fund "BellKnow") and the GUIDE@HAND mobile application family. BOOK@HAND Bells provides multimedia information on bells including textual description (history, creator, material, height, location, description, etc.), audio files containing the sounds of the bells, photos, videos presenting the bells while being tolled and diagrams representing the acoustic characteristics of the bells, etc.

Keywords: Digitization and Presentation of Cultural Heritage, Digital Bell-type Objects, Digital Repositories, GUIDE@HAND, BOOK@HAND Bells

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Bogdanova, G., Noev, N., Luchev, D., Márkus, Z. (2018). Introducing Digital Bell Objects in Web Based and Mobile Applications: "BellKnow" and "BOOK@HAND Bells". Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 270–283

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Title: Has There Been a Prehistoric Rock Sanctuary in the "Bel Meil" Area on the Beliyakovsko Plateau, Veliko Turnovo Municipality?
Authors: Evgeni Koev

Abstract: On the Belyakovsko plateau, Professor Raphael Popov, has studied eight caves in which he demonstrates the existence of prehistoric life. After a long-standing search, it is a chance that members of the Cave Club "Dervent" and the School Speleo Club "Prof. Rafail Popov", will find a pre-historic rock sanctuary near the village of Belyakovec in the "Bel Mel" area. Turnovo speleologists have researched the site for more than two years and confirm with certainty that the site is probably a prehistoric observatory and a rock sanctuary. The rock sanctuary in the "Bel Meil" area is the first such sanctuary studied in the region of Veliko Tarnovo.

Keywords: Rock Sanctuary, Belyakovsko Plateau, Pre-historic Observatory

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Koev, E. (2018). Has There Been a Prehistoric Rock Sanctuary in the "Bel Meil" Area on the Beliyakovsko Plateau, Veliko Turnovo Municipality? Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 284–302

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Title: Database for Storage of Physiological Information – Overview
Authors: Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva, Krassimir Cheshmedzhiev, Nikolay Noev

Abstract: The report looks at information databases as a way to store recordings with characteristic information. Several popular publicly available data with physiological signals have been examined. The results of the work of the authors on collecting and storing of long-term cardiological data as a work under a project under the Scientific Research Fund of the Republic of Bulgaria are presented.

Keywords: Database, Database Management System, Cardiological Records

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Georgieva-Tsaneva, G., Cheshmedzhiev, K., Noev, N. (2018). Database for Storage of Physiological Information – Overview. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 304–313

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Title: Creation of Database for Storage of Physiological Information
Authors: Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva, Krassimir Cheshmedzhiev

Abstract: The report addresses the problems associated with the creation and maintenance of information databases of cardiac data as a means of storing specific patient information related to cardiovascular disease. The fields of each record from the holter data base are presented. Described are the capabilities to work with the database records that the dedicated demonstration software system provides to users. The presented activities are part of the work of the authors in connection with their work under a project under the Scientific Research Fund of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Keywords: Database, Electrocardiographic Recordings, Cardiological Information

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Georgieva-Tsaneva, G., Cheshmedzhiev, K. (2018). Creation of Database for Storage of Physiological Information. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 314–322