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Project Digitization, bibliographic description and research of texts written in Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic and Latin scripts until the end of 19th century in Zadar and Šibenik area

The interdisciplinary scientific project Digitization, bibliographic description and research of texts written on Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic and Latin scripts until the end of 19th century in Zadar and Šibenik area is being carried out at the University of Zadar by the Department of Information Sciences in co-operation with Vestigia – Manuscript Research Centre of University of Graz, Austria. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, while the associates come from several departments of Zadar University as well as from Croatian and European institutions interested in different aspects of manuscripts and early printed books research, information sciences and digital humanities. The project includes activities related to the (1) digitization of old and rare collections, (2) making of inventory lists, (3) machine-readable cataloguing of those collections, including research in the field of cataloguing of old and rare collections, predominantly manuscripts, as well as participation in projects aiming to revise and produce international and national standards, models and guidelines for bibliographic description, and encouraging the professional community to participate in those projects, (4) protection and preservation of collections, (5) research of humanities users’ needs, (6) publishing of material related to Zadar and Šibenik written heritage on a web portal, (7) applying digital tools for manuscript research in digital environment, testing and promoting them among humanities’ scholars, (8) involvement of students in each project phase and enabling conditions for laboratory and field education, as the project is designed in such a way to support educational activities at several departments of Zadar University. On this basis, the goals of the project are: (1) digitization of old and rare books written on Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic and Latin scripts connected with the Zadar and Šibenik area, (2) machine readable cataloguing, making of inventory lists, registration and inclusion of Croatian manuscript and early print collections in portals of written heritage ; (3) gathering scientists from various fields, especially humanities, interested in research of Croatian written heritage in a digital environment, to enable their research of written heritage, to research their needs and to create proper conditions for their research of digitized manuscript material (4) presentation of the most valuable Zadar and Šibenik written heritage on a specially built web portal to enable access to heritage and information on heritage for users ; the web portal is intended to be a scholar portal but also enriched by the power of public by crowdsourcing and other initiatives. The project aims at becoming an open and ongoing project, that would promote accessibility to the regional written heritage, raise new questions, new audiences and new challenges in written heritage research and promotion. In order to achieve those goals, various technical, organizational, practical and scientific assumptions should be accomplished. In the presentation benefits and obstacles of this cross- institutional and cross-discipline project will be presented, together with problems that occured and achievements accomplished in the project’s first year.

digitization; written heritage; digital humanities

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