scholarly journals Preservation of Cultural and Historical Heritage at Risk Based on the Experience of the Scientific Archive at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Darina Ilieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Bulgarian Academy ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Scientific Archive ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Archive Project

The report presents the importance of working on joint research projects for the conservation of cultural and historical heritage through the use of modern information and communication technologies. The issue is of national priority and has a significant place in the European integration process. I offer a brief description of several projects that the BAS Scientific Archive has worked on, but I elaborate on the latest academic archive project related to Bulgaria's participation in the wars for national unification in the early 20th century. The proposed scientific problems are of great interest not only among the Bulgarian scientific community, but also in the broad European context, increase the possibilities for future interdisciplinary studies. This is the contribution of the Academic Archive to the cultural diversity of Europe and the world in historical and contemporary terms. Keywords: archive, cultural and historical heritage, research projects

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Duncan B. Hollis ◽  
Jens David Ohlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Information And Communication

Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one. Evidence of election interference by foreign states or their proxies has become a regular feature of national elections, and election interference is likely to get worse in the near future. Information and communication technologies afford those who would interfere with new tools that can operate in ways previously unimaginable: Twitter bots, Facebook advertisements, closed social media platforms, algorithms that prioritize extreme views, disinformation, misinformation, and malware that steals secret campaign communications. Defending Democracies: Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age tackles the problem through an interdisciplinary lens and focuses on: (1) defining the problem of foreign election interference; (2) exploring the solutions that international law might bring to bear; and (3) considering alternative regulatory frameworks for understanding and addressing the problem. The result is a deeply urgent examination of an old problem on social media steroids, one that implicates the most central institution of liberal democracy—elections. This volume seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disciplinary frameworks, escaping the typical biases of lawyers—preferring international legal solutions for issues of international relations. Taken together, the chapters in this volume represent a more faithful representation of the broad array of solutions that might be deployed, including international and domestic, legal and extralegal, ambitious and cautious.

Intelligence Applied to Smart Cities Through Architecture and Urbanism

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Cantarero-García
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
A Site

Implementation of the smart city concept in architectural school programs is neither evident nor simple. The starting point is a historical heritage of established patterns shaped to different schools of thought that have independently worked on territories at different scales: urban planning and building construction. The Spanish scenario understands the smart city as the ICTs (information and communication technologies) applied to security, data processing, logistics, energy management, among others, but we must not forget the Spanish urban plans born from the architecture discipline and how buildings are positioned within a site. The aim of this study is to highlight some reflections on the need to unite multiple and artificial intelligences so that the latter does not monopolize or gain exclusivity within the smart city design guidelines and listens to the city's demands.

scholarly journals An Analysis for Parallel Wind Simulation Speedup using OpenFOAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neki Frasheri ◽  
Emanouil Atanassov
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Parallel Execution ◽  
Bulgarian Academy ◽  
Medium Resolution ◽  
Wind Simulation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Resolution Models ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

An analysis of speedup for parallel execution of OpenFOAM software for wind simulation over rugged terrain is presented in the paper. Runtime speedup is analyzed using small and medium resolution DEM models for icoFoam and pisoFoam solvers, the latter due to consideration of turbulence, running in the parallel system Avitohol of Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The results gave a clearer view about the possibility to run in reasonable time medium and high resolution models in regional scale, while indicating the weight of turbulence calculations for computing runtime requirements.

scholarly journals Importancia de las competencias digitales en los alumnos de nivel medio superior

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Julia Patricia Melo-Morin ◽  
María De Los Ángeles Ahumada-Cervantes
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
School Students ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Information And Communication

Digital skills are of great importance in the development of individuals to face the technological challenges that arise every day. With the confinement of students in their homes due to the emergence of COVID-19, is important the need to apply the digital skills of both students and teachers, to continue the educational process. There are five fundamental areas of digital competences according to the European Framework of Digital Competences, developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which include 21 competencies that individuals must develop with respect to the use of information and communication technologies (Tics). A questionnaire was applied to high school students from the Escuela de Bachilleres Diurna de Pánuco, Veracruz, to identify the level of digital skills that students have, which would allow support in the development of their online classes. This article describes the results of the instrument applied in each of the areas where digital skills are classified.

scholarly journals DYNAMIC GENERATION OF CULTURAL ROUTES IN A TOURIST GUIDE

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Asya Stoyanova-Doycheva ◽  
Vanya Ivanova ◽  
Todorka Glushkova ◽  
Stanimir Stoyanov ◽  
Irina Radeva
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Dynamic Generation ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Cultural Routes

Due to its unique geographical location, for thousands of years the region of Bulgaria used to be a crossroads for many nationalities. The enormous Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage is little known outside the country and modern information and communication technologies have not been used in their full potential to promote and advertise it. In this paper, a personal tourist guide is presented, which is able to generate cultural routes. The routes can be virtual or real depending on preferences or location of the user. The architecture of the guide consists of several intelligent agents that work with ontology network and ambient network as a knowledge base, to generate the tourist routs. Ontologies present the cultural and historical objects of Bulgaria according the CCO standard, and ambient present the physical properties (location, working time etc.) of these objects. Furthermore, the dynamic generation of routes is demonstrated by modeling ambient-oriented approach.

NEW FORMS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : REVIEW OF FOREIGN STUDIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-24
Author(s):  
Maria Bulavinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technical Issues

In the 21st century, the relationship between science and society takes on a new character. Today, public participation is required not only in the discussion and decision-making concerning important scientific and technical issues, but also in the production of innovations and scientific knowledge. Citizens and the public are seen as important participants in the research process and consumers of new technologies. In this regard, new forms of involving non-specialists in joint research projects are emerging. This is largely facilitated by the rapid development of information and communication technologies, which greatly simplify and expand the interaction of scientists and volunteers. Citizen Science projects cover all areas of science and serve as an important complement to scientific research.

scholarly journals Digital resources in history teaching with reference to the European project Europeana

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-196
Author(s):  
Miloš Marsenić ◽  
Saša Stanojević
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Historical Heritage

The development of new technologies and the information society has accelerated changes in everyday life and modern teaching. Information and communication technologies (ICT) better motivate students to learn. In order to better preserve historical sources, they are digitized and thus protected, hence researchers can access the source faster and at a less cost. The possibilities of using the Internet in teaching are vast. It is necessary for schools to have computers, as well as for teachers and students to be motivated to use new electronic sources. Many websites have original historical material, from written and printed sources to audio-visual ones. We can call all this material digital resources (materials, sources, electronic historical sources). Teachers need to create engaging and imaginative teaching materials. However, a critical approach and caution in working with materials from the internet is essential. It is the teacher's responsibility to recommend verified sites and documents. Much of the material on the Internet has been posted with the conscious intention of spreading inaccurate data. The possibilities of ICT are great in history studies, as well. It is possible to modernize teaching at all levels of studies, but the financial capabilities of schools do not allow the possibility of keeping up with those innovations. One of the web portals that can be used for teaching purposes with its digitized content is Europeana. It is a database of the cultural and historical heritage of Europe, through which it is possible to search the digitized material of institutions. The Europeana portal is a broad project that provides free access to tens of millions of digital units. One of the most important collections within this portal is dedicated to the First World War and is called Europeana 1914-1918.

scholarly journals Web presentation of bilingual corpora (Slovak-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Polish)

2015 ◽  
pp. 227-239
Author(s):  
Radovan Garabík ◽  
Ludmila Dimitrova ◽  
Violetta Koseska-Toszewa
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Academy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Polish Academy ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Bulgarian Academy ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Bilingual Corpora ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Web

Web presentation of bilingual corpora (Slovak-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Polish)In this paper we focus on the web-presentation of bilingual corpora in three Slavic languages and their possible applications. Slovak-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Polish corpora are collected and developed as results of the collaboration in the frameworks of two joint research projects between Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, from one side, and from the other side: Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, coordinate by authors of this paper.

Nomadic Digital Ethnography and Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-311
Author(s):  
Allison Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Mobile Pastoralists ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Complex Forms

The availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as cell phones, WIFI connections, and social media has broadly changed communication norms amongst mobile pastoralists. Scholars and development organisations have reported on the end results of digital tools, for example by examining the ability of governments and development organisations to send early-warning weather reports through enhanced cellular access; the use of SMS to engage in deliberative polling; and the use of WIFI connections to provide banking services. However, researchers have not yet fully addressed how these tools are changing the communicative norms and ethnographic research methods used between researchers and mobile pastoralists. These changing communicative norms embed relations that inform academic understanding of the opportunities that arise from the interplay of complex forms of social and economic variability as experienced by herders.<br/> This paper draws from the fields of Communication and Anthropology to understand how these same ICTs have changed the complex communication between herders and researchers through the establishment of new communicative networks. I ask how new communicative networks impact on both existing and emerging ethnographic research practices and how the emergent 'digital field' of research might open space for new communicative networks and research projects. Then, I propose that digital ethnography may be one way in which both herders and researchers can respond to variability while establishing research projects wherein herders are recognised both as participants in a research project and as co-producers of knowledge.

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