Experience of Infobiro Digital Archive in Digitization of BiH Press and Magazines


Dragan Golubović




The purpose of this paper is to offer insight into processes of digitization of newspapers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) by presenting activities of Mediacentar Sarajevo and its Digital Archive INFOBIRO. The author presents activities related to digitization of cultural and historical heritage through digitization of BiH periodicals and increasing its availability. The digitization in most European countries is conducted under the auspices of state cultural institutions (libraries, archives); however, in BiH, digitization is performed by Mediacentar Sarajevo and its Digital Archive INFOBIRO. A model of cooperation with key stakeholders in BiH will be explored, as well as issues of copyright and the selection of materials to be digitized. A scheme with metadata description of materials will be presented.