1.
Geography of Letters - The
Spirituality of Sofia in the Historic
Memory
Mariana Damova, PhD
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September 2017
Summer School in Advanced Tools for Digital Humanities and IT
Roundtable on the future perspectives for Digital Himanities in SEE

2.
Culture Programme
Priority: Immaterial cultural heritage and
cultural traditions of the capital
 Sofia – host of the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Council in 2018
• Encouraging the European dimension in the cultural life;
• Building on European creative ideas, approaches, interpretations in terms of
content and in terms of audience and reflection on the urban environment;
• Addressing topics and questions related to European values and emphasizing the
wealth of cultural diversity in Europe.
 The funding in 2017 has been awarded to creative concepts with two year horizon
for 2017 and for 2018.

3.
The project
Goal:
• encouraging the interest of the youth in the history of the city
• extending the possibilities of its understanding
• through an initiative for preservation and promotion of the historical memory
about the spirituality of Sofia
How:
• interactive, bilingual map of the transcripts of the History of Paisij Hilendarski
• two competitions with two tasks for secondary and for high school students
will be carried out
Results:
• the awards of the competition and the presentation of the site will take place
at a solemn promotional event

4.
The Map
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5.
The manuscripts
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50 transcripts of the History of Paisij of Hilendar
Selected Metadata: • Manuscript name
• Alternative name
• Date of origin
• Place of origin
• Repository
• Scribe
• Colophon
• Textual features
• Edition
• ISBN
• Bibliography
• Image
• Other locaitons
• etc.

6.
The Site
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http://www.geographyofletters.org

7.
Competition
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Goal:
Engaging the youth in reflecting on
spirituality, historical memory, letters
and the modern time city of Sofia
To be announced on September, 20 2017
Task:
High school students
Secondary school students

8.
Students preparing for the
competition in June
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9.
Conference
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26.10.2017
Scientific conference at SU with
participation of international scholars
30.10.2017
Promotional conference at SU
You are invited!
Stay tuned!

10.
Project partners
Mozaika’s partners for this project:
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” expert contribution to the concept, selection
and processing of cultural content;
National Lyceum for Ancient Languages and Cultures “St. Konstantin Kiril – The
Philosopher” engaging and advising students for the competition
48 School engaging and advising students for the competition
Center for Educational Initiatives communication across the national school network
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11.
Team
• Mariana Damova, PhD – project owner
• Prof. Dr Margaret Dimitrova – scholarly content
• Prominent scholars
• Software engineers
• Designers
• Administrators
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12.
Mozaika - The Humanizing Technologies Lab
- in operation since May 2013
- subject areas
- data science
- natural interfaces
- human insight
- activity areas
- R&D and project development
consulting for knowledge intense solutions
- DaaS (Data as a Service)
- Information/data infrastructures for a
variety of applications
- Natural human-computer interactivity
- Voice biometrics
- verticals
- Business Information, Human Resources
Management, Earth Observation, Aerospace,
an SME and a Research Center
At Mozaika we are trying to leverage data
science with natural interfaces to provide
solutions tailored to human behavior,
attitudes and comprehension
Data Science
Interactivity,
Natural Interfaces
Human Insight
Mood, Emotion,
Compassion, Intuition,
Value Judgements,
Sentiment
Cognitive Systems
Contact:
Mariana Damova, PhD
mariana.damova@mozajka.co

13.
Mozaika - The Humanizing Technologies Lab
Cultural heritage projects
DM2E (FP7 project) – semantic representation of Codex
Supprasliensis
3D laser scanned objects publication (Sofia municipality project)
– metadata creation and publishing in Europeana and its
Bulgarian equivalent of a church form Kremikovci monastery near
Sofia
Interactive map of Bulgarian dialects (European OP project) –
creation and publication of the map
an SME and a Research Center
Contact:
Mariana Damova, PhD
mariana.damova@mozajka.co

14.
European Projects and Initiatives
EUROPEAN
DATA SCIENCE
ACADEMY
Europeana network
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15.
Contact:
Mariana Damova
mariana.damova@mozajka.co
0885796530
Thank you for your attention!
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