Videos

PARTNERS: introduction

The National Library Ivan Vazov – Plovdiv

The National Library Ivan Vazov – Plovdiv (NLIV) is part of the CLaDA-BG project, which is integrated within the European research infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH. The library participates as a partner providing textual resources and expertise.

NLIV provides digital content that supports technological partners in the creation of text corpora, natural language processing (NLP), and the development of generative AI models based on large language models (LLMs) for contemporary Bulgarian as well as for Bulgarian that was used before the Spelling Reform of 1945 (SR1945).

NLIV is also a user of tools and applications developed within the project. Examples include the creation of the Digital Library of NLIV (digital.libplovdiv.com) with the help of CultIs, a web-based software platform, developed by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI-BAS).

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

CultIS

The specialized web-based software platform for intelligent digital management and representation of large data and knowledge sets (CultIS, https://cultis.math.bas.bg/) is a digital library generator being developed and maintained by a research team in the ‘Mathematical Linguistics’ section of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS), with the support of the national e-infrastructure ‘National Technological Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies for Language and Cultural-Historical Heritage, integrated into the European infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH’ (CLaDA-BG)”.

Latin-Bulgarian Electronic Dictionary

A lexicographic aid with the most common Latin lexemes applied in Latin language teaching in our country and in the canon of classical Latin authors.

CONFERENCES AND VIDEO LECTURES

VIDEOLECTURE

Bulgarian Language Technology for Digital Humanities: a focus on the Culture of Giving for Education
author: Petya Osenova, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy

PROJECTS

“THE BUILDINGS TELL THEIR STORIES”

Presentation of the mission of CLaDA – an innovative platform that connects universities, libraries, museums and scientific institutions in Bulgaria, creating an easily accessible system for searching scientific resources. Part of the participation of the Regional History Museum – Sofia in the project is to promote our cultural and scientific heritage through a series of videos about iconic buildings in Sofia.

Video series “The Buildings Tell Their Stories”

“Echo from the Borders”

“Echo from the Borders” is a science project, coordinated by the Greek Commission for South-East European Research and supported by the Ministry of Culture of Greece and the Bulgarian e-infrastructure CLaDa-BG.

The project is ran by the joint efforts of scientists from the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centrе of Thracology – Bulgarian Academy of Science, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of Crete, the Democritus University, the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Science, the University in Skopje and the Harvard University.

As part of the project, twelve lectures will be presented, covering the transborder flows of communication and differences in the areas of history, literature, language, dialects, traditions, spirituality, arts, culture etc. Each lecturer will present in their own language, however all lectures will feature English subtitles and will be made freely available online. The goal of the participants in the project is to encourage the scientific, cultural and communal exchange between the neighboring Balkan nations.

MOVIE

This short movie introduces some of the young researchers at CLADA-BG infrastructural project. They talk about what they do and how the infrastructure activities enhance their professional development.