VISUAL ARCHIVE OF YUGOSLAVIA - DIGITIZING PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL OF MUSEUM OF YUGOSLAV HISTORY

摘要

Photographic material of Museum of Yugoslav History is consisted of photos, glass plate andfilm negatives and photo albums. Materialcan be found in the following collections: Photo Archive ofJosip Broz Tito, The collections of gifts presented to Josip Broz Tito: photo albums, framed portraits andslides, A collection of images of Josip Broz Tito with photo and cinema equipment, A collection ofreportage 1944-1947, Photo Archive of Museum of the Revolution of nations and nationalities ofYugoslavia with a collection of photo albums, and Stevan Kragujevi? Bequest. The process of photoarchive digitization was started in 2012 with the support of Telenor Foundation. The result of thecooperation was digitization of 132,000 photographs that documented the socio-political activity of JosipBroz Tito from 1947 to 1980 and are available on the web at http://foto.mij.rs/site/galleries. The signingof the agreement between the Museum of Yugoslav History and the University of Basel marked thebeginning of a major joint project named Visual Archive of Yugoslavia. This project represents furtherdevelopment of the digitization process started in 2012. and it isas part of the SCOPES programme(Scientific co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland) which is aimed at safeguarding andpromoting the visual heritage of Yugoslavia. The project objectives are the development of infrastructurefor digitization, improving the methodology of processing, digitizing over 50,000 negatives, developmentof a database and web portal for presentation of photo material from museum collections in cooperationwith Mathematical Institute SANU, organizing student practice at the museum in a collaboration with theCenter for museology and heritology at Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Media andCommunicationsat University of Belgrade, organization of workshops and exhibitions in a cooperationwith a partner on the project, data exchange with the portal Visual Archive Southeastern Europe (VASE)and publication of the manual based on the best practices of digitization process. In this paper will bepresented the technical platform of the final solution, metadata schemas and vocabulary for describing thestructure and the current progress of the project.