The South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative (SEEDI) is an effort to develop awareness about
digitization
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of
cultural and scientific heritage in the
South-Eastern European countries along the
Lund Principles of the European Union. It will contribute to gathering and spreading specific and interdisciplinary knowledge from various institutions from the region and the
European Union
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where leading experts in the field work.
History
The SEEDI arose from the cooperation between researchers from
Belgrade
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(
Serbia
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) and
Sofia
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(
Bulgaria
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) which was formally expressed in the
Borovets declaration (2003) where it was argued that:
Goals
Cultural and scientific heritage collections in the South-Eastern Europe still cannot be widely accessed in electronic form. The idea of the SEEDI is to overcome that by bringing together researches from regional and European centers having similar scientific and practical interest in digitization and to support cooperation between them. The aim is to create core groups of specialists, which would be able to consult, assist, monitor and develop innovative technologies and digitization projects collaborating with the local cultural and scientific heritage institutions.
The SEEDI would be implemented through several measures:
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Conferences
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Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main pu ...
and workshops,
# The journal
Review
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of the
National Center for Digitization
The National Center for Digitization (NCD) is a consortium composed of the most important
leading Serbian (and former Yugoslav) cultural and scientific institutions, which analyse problems of digitization of cultural and scientific heritage.
Hi ...
,
# The mailing list
To facilitate communication, dissemination and sharing each other's ideas, concerns, views and experiences in the field of digitization of cultural and scientific heritage.
The SEEDI is an open forum. The owners of ideas are invited to propose them through the SEEDI-communication tools and to find potential collaborators.
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
*Zoran Ognjanovic, Milena Dobreva, Nikola Ikonomov, Tamara Butigan-Vucaj, ''South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative'', in: ''Heritage and beyond, Council of Europe'' (2009), 179–182.
*South-Eastern European Network for Digitisation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage, ''Borovets declaration''
(05.05.2011)
*SEEDI (05.05.2011)
External links
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