Abstract:

Current trends in the preservation and protection of literary heritage necessitate more initiatives and stimulate socio-cultural continuity between different generations. Over the last decade, Europe and the world have been very active in the restoration, conservation and digitization of documents from different historical periods, which are an important part of written culture and collective human memory. In addition to the Europeana platform, which brings together digitized images of objects reflecting various aspects of Europe's cultural heritage and provides access to millions of materials provided by libraries, archives, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions, many European countries are developing projects within memory institutions, whose main purpose is to preserve rare and valuable documents that contribute to the cultural image of Europe. One of these projects is the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies - Sofia, Bulgaria, which is entitled "Innovative model for research and socialization of Strandzha literary and documentary cultural heritage", whose main goal is through systematic and targeted research, identification and research of the important literary monuments to create and test an innovative model for research of the literary-documentary heritage. Based on this model, innovative approaches are created for documenting, preserving, protecting, accessing and promoting the rich literary heritage of one of the strategically important regions - the Strandzha region, which is part of the European Southeast region.

This report presents examples and good practices in the digitalization of literary heritage, which have been implemented in the research process of the project and have been successfully tested in the educational process and in particular in the practical training of students in Bachelor's degree programmes at ULSIT. A significant part of them are the digitized four issues of the Trakia newspaper from the period 1923-1926. The digitalization of these samples of journalistic work provides easy and fast access of students, doctoral students, young scientists and specialists to an extremely important representative of periodicals from a nearly 100-year historical period. Thanks to the information and knowledge contained in the literary and documentary heritage and their processing, today researchers can quickly and easily carry out research to generate new and valuable knowledge about humanity.

Keywords:

Digitization, Cultural Heritage, Information Sources.