This
is a survey of some projects in the field of digitization in Yugoslavia in the
last decade. The following projects are presented:
PANDORA,
an expert system for archeology. This project was the first one in the
digitization area in Yugoslavia. An electronic base of types of Roman oil lamps
was built, together with inference (deduction) rules for
expertise.
The second project was Computer
archiving and multimedia presentation of cultural values and national
heritage. It was basic and the most comprehensive project in Yugoslavia in
this area until now. The project consisted of two parts. The first part was
dealing with infrastructure, standards and methodology of design and the
architecture of this type of data. Our investigation was based on SGML Standard
Generalized Markup Language) which is now the standard in this area (ISO
8879:1986) and it's derivative HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) which is today
the main tool for making Internet presentations. In the second part of the
project bases frames were designed and some computer archive-bases were built,
together with mathematical and program implementation.
The third project was dealing with
building of archive base of the leading Serbian mathematical journal (founded in
1932) Publications de l'Institute Mathematique. This base now is a part
of EMIS (European Mathematical Information Service, www.emis.de) archive base of
international journals in mathematics. The archive-base contains 45 volumes of
the journal in the electronic form.
The aim of the forth project was the
preparation of electronic and phototypic edition of collected works of the
prominent Serbian mathematician Bogdan Gavrilović. Two his books are presented
on CD and about 50 articles, all together nearly 2000 printed pages.
The result of the fifth project was the
edition of multimedia presentation of two collections of the City Museum of
Belgrade. The first one is the most valuable collections of old engravings in
Serbia, so called Vajfert's collection. About 200 engravings and old maps
were selected for this presentation. Among authors of engravings are Resch,
Ortelius, Mercator, Bodenehr, Jacob Alt, etc. Engraving encompass a period
between XVI and XIX century. The second collection consists of photographs of
I.V. Groman, Russian military photographer. Photographs cover many places and
events in Serbia of late XIX century. This CD was noted for very good quality
(resolution) of electronic images and accompanying texts.
The content of the sixth project is the
multimedia presentation of Historical Archive of town Kotor. This presentation
was the only multimedia one presented in Yugoslav pavilion on the World
exhibition EXPO '98 in Lisbon, 1998.
The seventh project was related to the
celebration of 125 years since funding of the Faculty of mathematics. A CD was
published for this occasion. Besides a lot of appropriate material, CD contains
some works of older Serbian mathematicians for example PhD thesis and some books
published in XIX century.
The eight project concerns continuation
of the project announced in the previous one: publishing in electronic form some
elderly works of Serbian scientists in mathematical sciences (mathematics,
mechanics and astronomy).
Finally, some recent activities and other
related projects are described. This include the project on standards of
digitalization which started recently, then the electronic journal Visual
Mathematics, and short description of two internet sites: www.matf.bg.ac.yu
(Faculty of Mathematics, Univ. of Belgrade) and www.mi.sanu.ac.yu (Institute of
Mathematics of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art). Also, aims of the most
important activity taking place in this moment are presented: efforts devoted to
the funding of NCD – National Center of Digitization.