The traditions of research infrastructure development have created strong trends and centres of gravity, some of which are useful, and some of which hold back the convergence of analogue research methods and the technologies that could assist them. This is particularly true in the arts and humanities, where the analogue tradition of libraries and archives remains very strong, while new modes of engagement with sources and texts enabled by technological advances remain in their infancy. The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Research Infrastructure (CENDARI) has established itself as a firm proponent of reevaluating these trends and resisting the gravity where its pull distorts the possibilities for historians to work effectively in the digital age. As such, the project has leveraged its strongly user-centred design processto advance new perspectives on the federation of cultural material an application of knowledge resources within a digital environment. As such, the project represents both technical and social potential to enable new forms of scholarly insight and communication.

True, precise and complete documentation of artefacts is essential for conservation and preservation of our cultural heritage (CH). Through access to the knowledge about best possible documentation of artefacts it's possible to support an enhanced understanding of material CH and its long-term preservation. Documentation of CH involves researchers, scientists and professionals from multiple disciplines and industries. All of them are contributing in different ways to a documentation process, have different background and correspondingly different views on this process. In order to end up with best possible digital representations supporting subsequent research questions and applications in an optimal way it's important to build a common base linking technical views with those from CH experts. COSCH aims to help building this common understanding through close cooperation on a concerted European level as typically provided through COST Actions. COSCH will address some key interdisciplinary questions concerning the development of optical measuring techniques and electronic imaging applied to documentation and presentation of artefacts, as identified through the work of Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage (www.COSCH.info). More than 200 international researchers and professionals participate in COSCH activities which have been organised around six main subjects: (1) spectral object documentation, (2) spatial object documentation (3) algorithms and procedures (4) analysis and restoration of cultural heritage surfaces and objects, (5) visualisation of cultural heritage objects and its dissemination, (6) the semantic development of the COSCH Knowledge model. The latter one tries to provide the collected mutual knowledge in a structured way to the scientific community allowing to get necessary recommendations in order to select a most appropriate documentation process

Since 2007 we have been developing eLibrary as Internet oriented digital library of retro-digitized books and various documents. In order to increase its visitation rate, we made items in our repository visible to Internet search engines, particularly the Google one. We achieved this goal by using Google Webmaster Tools, free web service provided by Google to help webmasters optimize visibility of their websites. This tool produces detailed reports for searched items and also marks number of clicks and search position for every item shown in the search result. The statistics according to the various search criteria for most searched for items in the repository are also presented

The present contribution concerns a text in the form of handwriting, written in French. The year is known, given on the first page - 1846, but the author not. The present authors believe that the manuscript was written by Hervé Faye (Hervé Auguste Étienne Léopold Alban Faye, 1814-1902), a French astronomer and geodesist. The manuscript belongs to a collection of 24 manuscripts which is a property of the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. The entire collection has been digitized and it is deposited in the Virtual Library of the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade. The manuscript containing almost 600 pages is subjected to an analysis which is reported here.

Music Collection of the National and University Library in Zagreb comprises part of Croatian musical heritage, including music prints, music manuscripts and a collection of sound recordings. The text gives an overview of the activities connected to the Music Collection digitization, with an emphasis on the digitization of historical sound recordings on 78 rpm gramophone records, which constitute the oldest and important part of Croatia's musical sound heritage. Due to its historical and cultural significance some of the material held by the Music Collection, represents a priority when it comes to the protection, preservation and accessibility. With the goal of preserving and making available part of Croatian sound history, the Library launched a project for digitizing historic sound recordings. The project asserted itself as a good solution for preserving and making a valuable part of Croatian sound heritage accessible online. The project's results are presented in the virtual collection Sounds of the past which contains high-quality metadata as well as bio-bibliographic and contextual data. As inseparable parts of the old gramophone record, original record labels can be seen there, as well as what record covers and publisher's catalogues looked like. Its additional value lies in the accompanying materials, which include texts and clippings from the leading newspapers of that time. The major part of the collection of sound recording's collection comprises items released by the Edison Bell Penkala company, an important platform for producing and publishing of gramophone records situated in Zagreb during the 1920s.

The article presents an alternative solution to the long term preservation of the documents from the Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy. This solution can be viewed from several organic perspectives: on of the zoo, one of the seed-bank and, finally, the guerrilla gardening perspective. The first one insists on the importance of returning into the wild what was once captured on the field of research, the second one is about the seed-bank as a live database for future generations and the last one offers a way of adopting the seed bombing method to the problem of disappearing immaterial cultural heritage. This article is trying to describe a conceptual model, rather than technical details.

The paper presents the most recent and by many accounts the most successful virtual exhibition of University library Belgrade ``Djordje Stanojević -- A Rector who lit up Belgrade''. Prepared as an instigating exhibition of the virtual exhibition series ``They built Serbia'' that will once a year for Serbia National Day -- February 15th portray prominent people, professors and researchers who achieved great results in the history of the university and Serbian society, the exhibition presents life and achievements of a University of Belgrade professor and rector Djordje Stanojević, a pioneer of electrification and photography and a person of an almost renaissance mind and wide range of scientific and engineering interests. The exhibition consists of short informative texts about main areas of Stanojević activites, digitized collection of his books, a comprehensive bibliography and annotated list of web resources on Stanojević and was prepared by collaboration between University library Belgrade and leading experts from organizations such as Belgrade city library and Faculty of Philology of University of Belgrade. The paper advocates the need for innovative ways to present digital heritage materials and proposes a format of the thematic virtual exhibition as viable and achievable solution for cultural institutions in Serbia and other transitional and developing countries of the region.

This paper introduces a novel method of successful processing the large three-dimensional (3D) spatial data for Virtual museum design. Billion triangular faces are obtained from the 3D scanning process of national clothes. In order to avoid the filling holes problem we have included additional steps in post scanning process. Removing isolated vertices and all redundant faces, in the first step algorithm solves all topological error issues. This step also includes mesh optimization for two purposes: i) removing duplicated edges and faces and ii) mesh simplification for a precise unwrapped map. Algorithm in the next step performs texture creation and UVW mapping. Separated fields of the mesh faces contain rich and unique textures analogously to original national clothes. Separating these fields by color, texture and curvature features, we also achieved better rendering performance in the 3D web preview. This step is the final step in the presented algorithm. Classifying texture pixels in database in strict correlation to the real museum cloth and jewelry classifications, we have designed powerful software engine. Algorithm is crucial for the Virtual museum in order to allow the simple and efficient use and administration through user view and administrator panel.

In this paper we present scientific papers of Milutin Milanković, one of the greatest Serbian scientists, in his Digital Legacy. Papers are classified in accordance with the areas to which they belong.

This paper is focusing on access model for historical and contemporary newspapers in the Serials Collection of the National and University Library in Slovenia (NUL). It shortly discusses the history of microfilming of newspapers in the NUL, its advantages in the 1980s and its disadvantages in the digital 21st century. The paper summarises the beginnings of the digitisation of the newspapers, too. A qualitative analysis of the microfilmed material is made and, in addition analysis of copies for end users, made from both media. The paper suggests the possibilities of improvements of the current state and recommends changes of the existing access model with the purpose to meet the digital demands of the current and future reader. A partnership between the NUL and publishers is suggested in order to enable ingests all editions of a publisher's newspapers via digital copies, and to make them available on a page level, read-only basis in the Serials Collection reading-room.

The aim of the project Virtual Deposit Library is to simplify and increase the efficiency of the preservation book collections refilling, which are stored in the Czech libraries. The main goal is to create a special application which enables(based on the harvested data from library catalogues) to evaluate the lists of discarded books, that are offered by the public libraries. To increase the value of Bohemical book collections three certified methodologies for building of preservatives collections will be also developed. The project takes into account not only the presence of the single specimens in the collections but also some attributes of their physical condition, which are continuously examined through the extensive research of book collections. All the activities funded by the Virtual Deposit Library project will enrich preservation collections greatly and support the cultural heritage stored in the Czech libraries.