Examining of the participation paradigm in the paper “Participatory practices in modern institutions of culture” is focused on the understanding of these practices in the context of information society, on the creative participation of citizens in the field of culture, and on the potential of digital technologies for the users’ creative engagement. The paper pays particular attention to the web and the Internet technologies as the foundation of participation and to the concept of participatory practices in culture. In the technological environment that enables participation, cooperation, and interactivity, the audiences’ positions, desires, and possibilities are radically and rapidly changing. These behavior patterns are a result of changes in expectations and habits of a large number of people, which emerged, among other things, as a consequence of the widespread ICT and their significant influence.

In this paper we present digitized works of Emilijan Josimović, a respectable 19th century Serbian architect, engineer and professor of mathematics. He is considered as a first Serbian urbanist and in the mid of the sixties of the XIX century he gave a plan pursuant to which the center of Belgrade is reconstructed. He also was the university professor of mathematics, rector of the Grand School, the forerunner of the Belgrade university. He wrote first Serbian university books in mathematics and architecture. It interesting that the books he wrote in the fifties of the XIX century were written in the old-Serbian language and script. His later books were written in modern Serbian in accordance of Vuk Karadžić reform. We digitized six his works, four textbooks in mathematics, one textbook in physics and the proposal of the regulation plan of the city of Belgrade. The printed copies of these books belong to Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Their digital copies are deposited in the Virtual Library of the Faculty of mathematics, elibrary.matf.bg.ac.rs.

Abstract. In search for the best solution in the last ten years (in some libraries even longer than that), the process of digitization has established itself as currently the best among the widely available methods for storing the material. It has also instituted itself as an integral part of everyday work, primarily in relation to local history collections. The local history department of the Kraljevo City Library “Stefan Prvovencani” boasts a varied collection of local periodicals, giving a detailed insight into the city and its people’s eventful history. Local newspapers and magazines have established themselves as the most important source of information for (not only) local researchers - pupils, students, scientists, thus becoming a priority in the digitization process.
“Žički Blagovesnik” belongs among the most important and most challenging publishing tasks of its kind in many ways. It is a publication of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which was issued on the territory of the Eparchy of Žiča in the period from 1939 to 1941, only to see its publication renewed after a long break in 1997. This paper reviews the old issues (before the World War II) of “Žički Blagovesnik”, with a particular focus on the short history and dynamic of its publication, the structure of the magazine, but also the digitization process it was subjected to, in order to not only protect it, but also make it available to a much wider audience than ever before.

The archive material, that can be stored and displayed in digital form, belongs to the mobile cultural heritage. Digitization makes the basic process in conservation and restoration of nonmovable cultural heritage, indirect and fixed, if the digitized documents are related to certain nonmovable cultural monuments. Topotheques are a network of checkpoints developed first in Austria, under the authority of the city archives, in order to make the collection and enable the processing of digital archival materials, photos, audio and video recordings that belong to the citizens, and on the personal initiative of the owner. The project topotheque North Bachka is an initial attempt to create such a network of private-public institutions in Vojvodina and Serbia.

The project of “Digitizing the Archive of Student Services of the Faculty of Mathematics” was initiated in 2004 with the aim of converting the old archive materials to electronic form with the ability to search and print data. In the middle of 2016 there was no significant progress in the work, and the main reason was the lack of human resources. The plan is to reactivate and complete the project, and connect it with the existing information system of student services, StudInfo. This paper presents a brief overview of the content of the archive and describes the necessary steps for the digitizing of archive documentation, storing and organizing documents in the appropriate database that can be searched according to relevant criteria.

The paper presents a proposal of a method for hierarchical classification of digitized documents of NCD digital library. The classification model implements Structured Support Vector Machine method (SSVM) which has shown excellent performance on Ebart corpus of documents in Serbian language. We describe the developed model and its results on Ebart dataset, suggest two types of hierarchies of classes of the NCD library regarding its content and define a protocol for the application of the method to digitized documents.