Narodna Biblioteka Srbije na digitalnom putu

It's time for embarking:
project EMBARK
Nikola Ikonomov
Tomáš Klimek
Tamara Butigan-Vučaj
7th SEEDI Conference
Ljubljana
17-18 May 2012

Acronym
E - Enhance
M - Manuscriptorium Through
BA - Balkan
R - Recovered
K - Knowledge
EMBARKING – many symbolic interpretations

Embarking
Coverage: Paris (rue Git-le-
Coeur) : |
Date: 1830/1840 ; 1830/1840.
Type: Lithograph |
Subject: Cassé. |
Christopher. Columbus |
Description: Christopher
Columbus, surrounded by a
crowd of people, is about to
embark on his ship, August
1492.
Data provider: The Wellcome
Library |
Provider: The European
Library | Europe |

EMBARK ID
Culture Programme 2007-2013
- Strands 1: Support for cultural projects
- Strands 1.2.1: Cooperation Projects
- 20 months (September 2010 - April 2012)
Budget
- 50% EU support 175.639,00 EUR
- 50% partners 175.639,00 EUR

Partners
Coordinator:
1. Czech national library, Prague, Czech Republic
Co-organizers:
2. Institute for Bulgarian language, Sophia,
Bulgaria
3. National library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
(4.) Public library in Veria, Veria, Greece (has
withdrawn the project after 4 months)

Goals
Including a number of Cyrillic manuscript books into
Manuscriptorium - European virtual environment for
written historical resources
Researching of the manuscript books and comparison
between the Latin and Cyrillic ones
Simultaneous exhibition of prints of the most
beautiful parts of the manuscripts from all three
partner countries, under the common name: Ours or
alien: written culture in the Balkans and Central
Europe in the middle ages.

4 workshops
Mobility of professionals
- Tree Tagger, Sophia, June 2011
- TEI XML e-editions of manuscript books, Prague,
August 2011
- Gaiji bank for non-standard characters, Belgrade,
September 2011
- Manuscriptorium tools (M-tools) for partners and
stakeholders from Bulgaria and Serbia, Belgrade,
October 2011

Contributors:
Mobility of professionals
- University library Svetozar Markovic,
Belgrade, Serbia
- Public library Ivan Vazov, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Results
50+ Cyrillic manuscript books in
Manuscriptorium
3 new e-editions of manuscript books in TEI
XML
Final conference in Plovdiv
Exhibition in Prague, Plovdiv and Belgrade:
Ours or alien: written culture in the Balkans
and Central Europe in the Middle Ages

Exhibition (CZ)
From Ours to Alien – A Czech View of Medieval
Written Culture in the Balkans
By
Tomáš Klimek

The legend of Procopius Vita
maior from a manuscript of
Czech provenance from the
last third of the fourteenth
century, one of the most
important texts related to
the person of the founder of
the monastery in Sázava
Národní knihovna ČR XIV.A.7,
fol. 15r / NL CR XIV.A.7, fol.
15r

The Chronicle on Alexander
the Great, an Old Czech
translation of the work
attributed to Callisthenes in
a manuscript from
Jindřichův Hradec from the
third quarter of the
fifteenth century
Národní knihovna ČR
XVII.B.6, f. 234r / NL CR
XVII.B.6, f. 234r

Ulrich Prefat von Wilkanau:
The Journey from Prague to
Venice and from There
across the Sea to Palestine,
i.e. to the Once Jewish
Land, the Holy Land, to the
City of Jerusalem to the
Lord’s Tomb… – ‘A Painting
of a Large Navis or Ship with
Six Sails’. Old Town of
Prague, Jan Kozel, 1563
Národní knihovna ČR,
54.B.324 / NL CR 54.B.324

Exhibition (BL)
Bulgarian Handwritten Heritage:
Window to the Past
By
Nikola Ikonomov

The four gospels – end of
15th century, 236 sheets (3
sheets are missing),
unknown author, f. 5r
Бугарска академија наука,
бр. 13 / Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, № 13

Trojan Damaskin (The
Damaskins grew out of the
writings of the Greek writer
Damaskin Studit), second
half of the 17th century, 190
sheets, unknown author, f.
4r
Бугарска академија наука,
бр. 88 / Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, № 88

Miniature (St. Luke) from
Kuklen monastery
Tetraevangelia, 16th
century, f. 117a
Јавна библиотека "Иван
Вазов", Пловдив, П21 /
Plovdiv public library “Ivan
Vazov”, Р21

Exhibition (RS)
„Christ is all and in all“.
Serbian Contribution to Slavic Manuscript
Heritage of Southest Europe
by
Vladan Trijić

Belgrade Prophetologion,
the first quarter of the 13th
century, fol. 586; Initial O in
a form of Christ Emmanuel's
head
НароднабиблиотекаСрбије,
Археографскоодељење,Мс
652 / NLS, Department of
Archaeography, Ms 652

Taha Mark's Miscellany of
Serbian hagiographies,
1370/75, fol. 94a; Hilandar
typicon by St Sava of Serbia
НароднабиблиотекаСрбије,
Археографскоодељење,Мс
17 / NLS, Department of
Archaeography, Ms 17

Hieratikon, ca 1688 and
1705, fol. 30r; The beginning
of St John Chrysostom's
Liturgy
Народна библиотека
Србије, Археографско
одељење, Мс640 / NLS,
Department of
Archaeography, Ms 640

Project Family
Zdeněk Uhlíř Vesna Injac Nikola Ikonomov
Tomáš Klimek Tamara Butigan Vladan Trijić

Project Family
3 historians
2 engineers
1 profossor of world literature
mostly librarians
Broader project team included:
mathematicians, phylologists, programmers,
type designers,...

Manuscriptorium projects
Manuscriptorium,
http://www.manuscriptorium.com/
ENRICH: http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/
REDISCOVER:
http://rediscover.manuscriptorium.com/
EMBARK:
http://embark.manuscriptorium.com/
Historical Europeana ...

EMBARK and SEEDI network
SEEDI network
http://seedi.ncd.org.rs/