geography of letters - the spirituality of sofia in the historic memory

Geography of Letters - The Spirituality of Sofia in the Historic

Memory

Mariana Damova, PhD

© Copyright Mozaika 2017

September 2017

Summer School in Advanced Tools for Digital Humanities and IT Roundtable on the future perspectives for Digital Himanities in SEE

Culture Programme


Priority: Immaterial cultural heritage and cultural traditions of the capital

Sofia – host of the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Council in 2018 • Encouraging the European dimension in the cultural life; • Building on European creative ideas, approaches, interpretations in terms of

content and in terms of audience and reflection on the urban environment; • Addressing topics and questions related to European values and emphasizing the

wealth of cultural diversity in Europe.

The funding in 2017 has been awarded to creative concepts with two year horizon for 2017 and for 2018.

The project


Goal: • encouraging the interest of the youth in the history of the city • extending the possibilities of its understanding • through an initiative for preservation and promotion of the historical memory about the spirituality of Sofia How: • interactive, bilingual map of the transcripts of the History of Paisij Hilendarski • two competitions with two tasks for secondary and for high school students will be carried out Results: • the awards of the competition and the presentation of the site will take place at a solemn promotional event

The Map


The manuscripts


50 transcripts of the History of Paisij of Hilendar

Selected Metadata: • Manuscript name

• Alternative name

• Date of origin

• Place of origin

• Repository

• Scribe

• Colophon

• Textual features

• Edition

• ISBN

• Bibliography

• Image

• Other locaitons

• etc.

The Site


http://www.geographyofletters.org

Competition


Goal: Engaging the youth in reflecting on spirituality, historical memory, letters and the modern time city of Sofia

To be announced on September, 20 2017

Task: High school students Secondary school students

Students preparing for the competition in June


Conference


26.10.2017 Scientific conference at SU with participation of international scholars 30.10.2017 Promotional conference at SU

You are invited!

Stay tuned!

Project partners

Mozaika’s partners for this project:

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” expert contribution to the concept, selection

and processing of cultural content;

National Lyceum for Ancient Languages and Cultures “St. Konstantin Kiril – The

Philosopher” engaging and advising students for the competition

48 School engaging and advising students for the competition

Center for Educational Initiatives communication across the national school network


Team

• Mariana Damova, PhD – project owner • Prof. Dr Margaret Dimitrova – scholarly content

• Prominent scholars • Software engineers

• Designers • Administrators


Mozaika - The Humanizing Technologies Lab

- in operation since May 2013 - subject areas - data science - natural interfaces - human insight - activity areas - R&D and project development consulting for knowledge intense solutions - DaaS (Data as a Service) - Information/data infrastructures for a variety of applications - Natural human-computer interactivity - Voice biometrics - verticals - Business Information, Human Resources Management, Earth Observation, Aerospace, Smart Cities, Cultural Heritage © Copyright Mozaika 2016

an SME and a Research Center

At Mozaika we are trying to leverage data science with natural interfaces to provide solutions tailored to human behavior, attitudes and comprehension

Data Science

Interactivity, Natural Interfaces

Human Insight Mood, Emotion,

Compassion, Intuition, Value Judgements,

Sentiment

Cognitive Systems

Contact: Mariana Damova, PhD

[email protected] www.mozajka.co

Mozaika - The Humanizing Technologies Lab

Cultural heritage projects

DM2E (FP7 project) – semantic representation of Codex Supprasliensis

3D laser scanned objects publication (Sofia municipality project)

– metadata creation and publishing in Europeana and its Bulgarian equivalent of a church form Kremikovci monastery near

Sofia

Interactive map of Bulgarian dialects (European OP project) – creation and publication of the map


an SME and a Research Center

Contact: Mariana Damova, PhD

[email protected] www.mozajka.co

European Projects and Initiatives

EUROPEAN

DATA SCIENCE

ACADEMY

Europeana network


Contact: Mariana Damova

[email protected] 0885796530

Thank you for your attention!
