The National Center for Digitization (NCD) is a
consortium
A consortium (plural: consortia) is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for ...
composed of the most important
leading
Serbian (and former
Yugoslav) cultural and scientific institutions, which analyse problems of
digitization
DigitizationTech Target. (2011, April). Definition: digitization. ''WhatIs.com''. Retrieved December 15, 2021, from https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/digitization is the process of converting information into a Digital data, digital (i ...
of cultural and scientific
heritage
Heritage may refer to:
History and society
* A heritage asset is a preexisting thing of value today
** Cultural heritage is created by humans
** Natural heritage is not
* Heritage language
Biology
* Heredity, biological inheritance of physical c ...
.
History
The work on the foundation of the National Center for Digitization (NCD) in Serbia started in 2002, with the idea to form a consortium consisting of leading cultural and research institutions involved in digitization of heritage. At the present state, the consortium includes:
* Mathematical institute of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...
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Faculty of Mathematics Belgrade
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National Library of Serbia
The National Library of Serbia ( sr, Народна библиотека Србије, Narodna biblioteka Srbije) is the national library of Serbia, located in the capital city of Belgrade. It is the biggest library, and oldest institution in Ser ...
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National Museum Belgrade
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Archaeological Institute Belgrade
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Archive of the Republic of Serbia
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.
Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...
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Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia
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In some countries, institutes can ...
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Yugoslav Film Archive
The Yugoslav Film Archive ( sr, Југословенска кинотека / Jugoslovenska kinoteka) is a film archive located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Founded in 1949, it is a founding member of the International Federation of Film Ar ...
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University library ''Svetozar Markovic''
Objectives
The main subjects of cooperation in the NCD are the following:
* Coordination of efforts of institutions involved in the cultural and scientific heritage digitization
* Establishing and promoting a national strategy for the cultural and scientific heritage digitization
* Exploring, adaptation and implementation of international standards and protocols for the cultural and scientific heritage digitization and preservation at the national level. Development of new standards in areas where they do not exist.
* Launching the cultural and scientific heritage digitization and making plans for possible migration process to new formats and technologies for already digitized data
The main activities of the NCD are:
* Annual national conferences ''New Technologies and Standards:Digitization of National Heritage''
* The journal ''Review of the National Center for Digitization'', published both on paper and in electronic form
* Establishing, at the national level, proposals for a basic set of standards in the area of digitization of cultural and scientific heritage
* Developing models of the appropriate distributed information systems and specific software for the realization of the digitization standards
* Collaboration with the similar institutions from abroad, particularly with the
South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative The South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative (SEEDI) is an effort to develop awareness about digitization of cultural and scientific heritage in the South-Eastern European countries along the Lund Principles of the European Union. It will c ...
(SEEDI).
Projects
Electronic catalog of cultural monuments in SerbiaElectronic editions of mathematical journalsDigital library retro-digitized books and documentsDigital National library of Serbia
See also
*South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative The South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative (SEEDI) is an effort to develop awareness about digitization of cultural and scientific heritage in the South-Eastern European countries along the Lund Principles of the European Union. It will c ...
(SEEDI)
References
Bibliography
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* National Center for Digitization, NCD (May 24th, 2011)
* National conferences ''New Technologies and Standards: Digitization of National Heritage'' (May 24th, 2011)
* Review of the National Center for Digitization (May 24th, 2011)
2002 establishments in Serbia
Cultural organizations based in Serbia
Data transmission
Digital preservation
Mass digitization
Technology consortia