{"title":"OCR / HTR technologies and Armenian Heritage Preservation","authors":"Chahan Vidal-Gorène","doi":"10.52027/18294685-cvo2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-cvo2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) are now ready for Armenian language. This technology may offer a greater valorization for documents by enabling improved accessibility, using by instance keywords search, and consists in a new challenge for Digital Libraries. Our presentation intends to propose a view on what is possible today, by introducing a state-of-the-art of the challenges raised by text recognition for Armenian. A focus will be drawn on the technology developed by Calfa for handwritten archives, ancient manuscripts and old printed books. We will present our feedback on three of our ongoing projects: processing catalogs of manuscripts (Mekhitarist, Venice), printed newspapers of Fundamental Scientific Library of NASRA, and handwritten correspondences (Mekhitarist, Venice). Methodology applied by Calfa leads to an accuracy higher than 95% for handwritten documents and higher than 99,5% for printed documents.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129150366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Культурно-историческое наследие Армении на языках народов мира в фондах Библиотеки иностранной литературы","authors":"Maria Belokolenko","doi":"10.52027/18294685-bmk2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-bmk2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"The Library for Foreign Literature has carried out work to identify documents thematically related to the cultural and historical heritage of Armenia. More than 500 documents have been identified in 26 languages of the peoples of the world. The rare book collection presents unique publications of European authors of the 17th and 19th centuries about travel, geography and history, linguistics. There are several historical and linguistic books originally from Venice, the city where the national Armenian printing originated in 1512. The recipients of the collected information are libraries of Armenia, Centers of Armenian Studies, Armenian diasporas in Russia and other countries. The library accepts orders for the production of digital copies of paper originals. The multilingual nature of the identified documents and the Library’s multifaceted activities in the fields of cultural diplomacy ensure the promotion of Armenia’s cultural and historical heritage in a broad international context.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"164 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114422809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Հայագիտական և տեղեկատու մատենագիտության ենթաբաժնի քարտարանների դերն ու նշանակությունը","authors":"Ruzanna Tumasyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-trh2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-trh2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"Thus, Armenian studies and Earth science are of great importance in the preservation, development and transmission of written heritage to the next generations. Bibliographic theories, seminars, discussions and exhibitions are organized on the basis of theoretical knowledge and acquired experience. In the era of modern technological developments, Armenian studies and reference bibliographic works are carried out most effectively. In addition to paper card files, electronic card files and repositories are also of great informational importance, which enable a wide range of readers to use the Armenian printed cultural heritage without mediation. It should be added that a number of issues of updating and management of bibliographic and information files related to the digitization of files remain controversial.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125722064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Современные интерфейсы новых медиа как фактор влияния на текст и его восприятие","authors":"Anna Khiznichenko","doi":"10.52027/18294685-kas2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-kas2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"User interfaces have evolved greatly in recent decades and have begun to have a significant impact on text and its perception. Most digital content is presented on electronic platforms of the so-called social media. The emergence of new interface tools serves as a tool for the implementation of author’s experiments, taking into account the specifics of the perception of the new generation audience and leads to the transformation of the concepts of “text,” “author,” “reader.” The representation of educational organizations in social networks, their transition to the status of new media serves to popularize culture and preserve traditional values.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133298853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Նոր Ջուղայի հայկական գրադարանների մասին","authors":"Haykanush Mesropyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-mhn2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-mhn2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"Based on personal observations, we presented the libraries of New Jugha, which were created at three important bases. а) Educational center. In 1831, KhachaturKesaratsi opened a monastery school, on the basis of which many schools were created. At present, there are “Armen,” “Kananyan,” “Katarinyan” schools, the Department of Armenian Studies of the University. b) Typography. In 1637, Kesaratsi founded the first printing house in Persia, which printed educational, theological, moral, historical and folklore books. c) A book. The Armenians of Jugha listed the manuscripts and books they brought from their homeland, as well as the books printed in their new place of residence. Today there are three basic libraries in New Jugha: 1) the monastery library, 2) the state university library, 3) the “Ararat” union library, where there are also valuable dialectological monographs.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132194882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Թվայնացված գրականությունից մինչեվ լեզվական շտեմարաններ. դրանց նշանակությունը, հեռանկարներն ու մարտահրավերները","authors":"Gayane Hovhannisyan, Srbuhi Aydinyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-hga2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-hga2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"The Republic of Armenia has traditionally had a solid culture of preserving written heritage. However, in the last few decades, due to various geopolitical circumstances, we have lagged behind the global advancement of digitization, information, and communication technologies in terms of natural language processing for the Armenian language, access to the expanding opportunities of systematising and utilising the collated enormous amount of literature. This paper presents the current global state of natural language processing and the related methodological problems of the field in our country. The process of dataset development and consumption, from the primary stage of text digitising collected in physical databases, libraries, and archives, to the very use of the knowledge and information stored in these texts for various scientific, educational and practical purposes, requires a clear scientific-methodological program introducing not only the importance and perspectives of the field but will also ensure the conditions for its sustainable development, including the processing of written (and spoken) digitized language data and the retrieval and “industrialization” of the information and knowledge contained in the language corpora.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133600529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Հայաստանի ազգային գրադարանի ադրբեջաներեն մամուլը․ Հայաստանում և Ադրբեջանում հրատարակված պարբերականները","authors":"G. Avetisyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-agh2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-agh2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a brief summary of the Azerbaijani-language newspaper collection preserved at the National Library of Armenia. The history of the beginning of the Azerbaijani-language periodicals is briefly discussed in order to provide a thorough understanding of the material we chose, with a particular focus on those published in Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. We will focus on the history of Azerbaijani-language periodicals from the 1940s through 1989, which are available at the National Library of Armenia.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122746425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Հայ տպագրության տարեգիրքը» որպես ազգային մատենագիտության ցանկերի ժողովածու","authors":"Astghik Nersesyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-nah2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-nah2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the “Yearbook of Armenian Printing.” In 1925, the first Armenian bibliographic periodical “Book Chronicle” was published in the Soviet Armenia Book Chamber. Based on the collected printed materials, a state bibliography of publications was compiled. “Book Chronicle” was published monthly from 1971 with the title “Printing Yearbook” including also bibliographic descriptions of music and fine art publications, as well as materials published in periodicals of the USSR and socialist countries about Soviet Armenia. “Journal Articles Yearbook” and “Newspaper Articles Yearbook” were published under the common title “Articles and Reviews Yearbook” from 1972, and under the general title “Arme-nian Printing Yearbook” from 1995. Since 2017, the publishing of this yearbook has been continued at the National Library of Armenia.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129159700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Հիշարժան տարեթվերը»՝ որպես մեթոդ-մատենագիտական ձեռնարկ","authors":"M. Hovhannisyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-hmh2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-hmh2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"The National Children’s Library after Khnko Aper, is the methodical center of children’s libraries of our country, carries out various methodological-bibliographic publishing works. From 1963 up to now, the library’s Bibliography Department has been creating a “Memorable Dates” reference manual, which includes the famous dates of the given year, commemorative books and works, national and international holidays, as well as topics of interest to children and young readers. It helps different levels of society plan their work and organize events and book exhibitions. Encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, relevant reference books, official websites on the online platform, etc. are used in compiling the manual.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130554992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Հայ Երուսաղեմի երախտավոր Եղիշե Պատրիարք Դուրյանի տպագիր ժառանգությունը","authors":"A. Muradyan","doi":"10.52027/18294685-maj2023.sp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52027/18294685-maj2023.sp","url":null,"abstract":"The presentation discusses the period of service of Patriarch Yeghishe Duryan in Jerusalem (1921-1929), which became a separate subject of study. Noteworthy is the fact that with the advent of Yeghishe Duryan (1860-1930) in the history of the monastery, a broad religious and intellectual movement unfolded, in which the publishing house didn’t stand aside. The unique works of the Armenian medieval bibliography, theological and historical memoirs of the Armenian Church, textbooks and translations were published. Based on the sources, it can be stated that the inspiring and educational activity of Patriarch Yeghishe Duryan was a great impetus, especially to the cultural field of the Holy See Congregation. The Duryanashen Trading Center was built with voluntary donations made on the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary (1929) “in memory of the great patriarch and mentor.” The profits gained from the center were to be directed towards the publication of the “Durian” series.","PeriodicalId":189164,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Armenian Libraries","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124445570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}