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Research work, presented in this article, aims to create IT tools for the study and research of handwriting, transcription and writing in general. It provides tools for structuring, processing, managing, visualizing and analyzing this data, which greatly facilitates research and study processes. An online accessible digital repertorium (web-based software environment) has been developed, storing information about valuable manuscripts and copyists with significant contributions to the development of South Slavic languages, writing and culture. Each written resource is digitized and described according to a descriptive model based on the metadata available for it. Once entered into the digital repertorium, it can be discovered through a variety of context-based search and intelligent curation services. Tools are provided for detailed study and analysis of each letter and its element, detection of similarities between pairs of manuscripts - spelling of letters and their elements, tools to support the joint simultaneous work of researchers in the system and management of the process of description and structuring of data. The goal of the development is to reach and effectively use the vast amount of knowledge about the digitized written heritage by providing tools for higher adaptability and effective interaction between the researcher and the digital repertorium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article provides a specific picture of the catalographic panorama of the major libraries and projects that have undertaken the study of analysis methods for Slavonic manuscripts. Making an excursus of this kind means highlighting both the main features and the problems of Slavic palaeography, philology and codicology. The proposal put forward here concerns the creation and description of the online database of all South Slavonic manuscripts from the 14th c. onwards in the research project “Fourteenth Century South Slavonic scribes and scriptoria (palaeographical attribution and online repertorium)”. Among the different sections, a scheme is offered for the standardisation of the manuscript typologies produced in the scriptoria of the deepened century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new strategies for teaching and learning point to the investigation and the deployment of workable learning methods and scenarios for better understanding of the learning content and engage learners in more active participation during the perceiving of knowledge. Good educational results are achieved by storytelling, understanding-by-design, serious educational games, game components, learning-by-authoring, and/or any combinations of them, when the specific learner’s needs and wishes are kept in mind and different digital resources (viz. cultural, historical, encyclopedic, etc.) are contextually used for the target learning purposes. This paper presents some conceptual models for the development of online learning games in the cultural heritage field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last twenty years, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) became a leading database and repository offering a highly specialized and comprehensive collection of full text indexed documents in the fields of Humanities and Social Science publications from and about Central and Eastern Europe. Journal articles, eBooks and Grey Literature items are included in 50+ languages, allowing access to the primary source in one repository and fostering the language diversity in academic research and publishing. The dissemination process of the content in CEEOL includes the following discovery systems: Google Scholar, ProQuest´s Serial Solutions, Summon, Primo Central, Alma, EBSCO´s EDS Discovery Service and Knowledge Base, TDNet and OCLC. The CEEOL´s partnership with Clarivate Analytics allows Web of Science editors having access to the CEEOL platform for easier analysis, selection and indexing of CEEOL journals that interest the Web of Science community. Institutional subscribers (states’, universities’, institutes’ libraries, etc.) worldwide appreciate CEEOL for providing researchers, scholars, students, librarians and library patrons the access to indexed and archived Journals, eBooks and Grey Literature documents from and about Central and Eastern Europe by leading academic and scholarly publishers. The Bulgarian collection of journals and books holds a special place in CEEOL due to the high quality of scientific content and the depth and the completeness of the digital archives of the Bulgarian periodicals. CEEOL is a unique source of information for the development of Bulgarian humanities and social sciences for the past over 30 years, and that source could be used more widely in Bulgaria for supporting this development in the future. The study uses a comparative approach and analyzes the results of some of the business analytics tools of the CEEOL system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]