Preliminary Conference Programme

21.02.2008

9.30–9.45:Opening ceremony

10.00–13.00: Workshop "Introduction into XML". Part 1 (Lecturers: David Birnbaum – University of Pittsburgh and Andrej Bojadžiev – Sofia University)

14.30-17.30: Conference

Panel: South Slavic Monastic culture and literature

  1. Heinz Miklas (Vienna University): St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai and the Balkan-Slavic Manuscript-Tradition
  2. Maja Jakimovska – Tošiḱ (Skopje University): The Marko's Monastery as a Literary and Cultural Center
  3. Ilija Velev (Skopje University): Manuscript Heritage of the Lesnovo literary center

Discussion

  1. Marica Čunčić, Antonio Magdić (Staroslovenski institut, Zagreb): Scientific Program of Staroslavenski institut CAS
  2. Milena Dobreva (invited speaker, HATII, University of Glasgow and IMI-BAS): The Digital Library of South Slavic Manuscripts in Context

Discussion

Reception

22.02.2008

9.30–11.00: Workshop "Introduction into XML". Part 2 (Lecturers: David Birnbaum – University of Pittsburgh, Andrej Bojadžiev – Sofia University)

11.15–11.45: Viktor Savić (Institute of Serbian Language, SANU): "Standardization of the Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic Script and Its Registration in Unicode"

11.45–12.30: Sebastian Kempgen (invited speaker, University of Bamberg): "Unicode: Character Encoding and Fonts, Achievements, Problems and Solutions"

Discussion

14.30-17.30: Conference

Panel: South Slavic Monastic culture and literature

Project Presentations

  1. Ivan Dobrev (Sofia University): The Cult of John of Rila: a new data
  2. Iskra Hristova, Dimitar Peev, Andrej Boyadžiev (Sofia University): Digitizing Rila monastery manuscripts collection
  3. Elena Tomova, Radoslava Stankova, Maya Petrova, Dilyana Radoslavova, Marina Jordanova, Rumyan Lazov (Institute of LIterature, BAS, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS): The project “Christian Hagiology and Pagan Beliefs”

Discussion

  1. Sebastian Kempgen (invited speaker, University of Bamberg): Picture Database of Balkan Cultural Heritage
  2. Vera Podkovirova (Library of RAN), Anisava Miltenova (Institute of LIterature, BAS): Метаданные в системах описания средневековых славянских рукописях: глосарии, тезауруси и авторитетные файлы

Discussion

23.02.2008

9.30–13.00: Workshop "Introduction into XML". Part 3 (Lecturers: Anisava Miltenova – BAS, David Birnbaum – University of Pittsburgh, Andrej Bojadžiev – Sofia University)

14.30-17.30: Conference

Panel: South Slavic Monastic culture and literature

  1. Danica Popović (SANU, Belgrad): The Monastery of Dečani: Its history, artistic and manuscript book heritage.
  2. Irena Špadijer, Vladan Trijić (Belgrade University): Hilandar Monastery: History, Art and Manuscript Heritage
  3. Georgi Popov (Sofia University, IL BAS): The State-of-Arts and New Perspectives in the Study of the Manuscript Hymnographic Heritage of the Zograph Monastery
  4. Nina Georgieva-Gagova. The founders of monasteries as centers of production of manuscripts in 14th century in Bulgaria. (Torun University)

Discussion

Project Presentation

Alenka Kavčič-Čolić (invited speaker, National and University Library, Ljubljana): Digitization Strategy Development : Experiences from the ASO Project

Discussion

24.02.2008

Excursion

25.02.2008

9.30–13.00: Hands-on session. Encoding of Slavic manuscripts (data and metadata) (Moderators: Anisava Miltenova – Institute of Literature, BAS, David Birnbaum – University of Pittsburgh, Andrej Bojadžiev – Sofia University)

14.30-17.30: Conference

Panel: Electronic editions and Corpora

  1. Matija Ogrin (Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana), Tomaš Erjavec (Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia): Electronic Edition of Brižinski Spomeniki/ Monumenta Frisingensia
  2. Ralph Cleminson (University of Portsmouth, Great Britain): XSLT and the Analysis of Textual Variation
  3. Cynthia Vakareliyska, David Birnbaum. A computerized database of Medieval Slavic Gospel menologies
  4. Alen Novalija (CEU, Budapest): A Proposal for Digitizing the Hilandar Copy of the Tolkovaya Paleya
  5. Konstantin Rangočev (IMI, BAS), D. Lučev (Ethnographic Institute, BAS), D. Paneva-Marinova (IMI, BAS): Knowledge Technologies and Digital Libraries for Presentation of Bulgarian Folklore Heritage

Discussion

Project Presentation

Viktor Baranov (invited speaker, Iževsk State Technical University): Web-Applications of Full-Text Database "Manuscript" as Tools of Processing, Search, Representation and Analysis of Ancient Slavonic Texts

Discussion

26.02.2008

9.30–12.30: Presentation. MINERVA-EC

12.30–13.00: Closing session