Description
The project aim is to collect, systematize, digitalize and preserve for future generations the cultural heritage of Bulgarian literary classics (mid-19th – mid-20th c.). It also focuses on promoting Bulgarian cultural heritage to the general public, by providing free access to it and turning it into a source of information, ideas and methodological strategies for future cultural and educational products, thus decreasing social and economic disparities. The Classics of Bulgarian literature will be presented through comprehensible literary profiles (incl. cultural and literary context, biography, knowledge of their works, unique bibliographic catalogue of publications in Bulgarian periodicals), and most of them – also by unknown and unique materials from their personal literary archives. Three digital centers will be established in the premises of the Institute for Literature and both partners, which will both contribute with its rich collections to be digitized as well as their expertise, and integral cultural and educational product will be created, which will include a web-based digital repository with 15000 items digitized for first time, a site with new texts presenting the writers, films, virtual exhibitions and collections, presentations, seminars and lectures. In the digitization will take part three trained Roma representatives and two of them will participate in lectures with their presentation of the cultural heritage that is being digitized under the project. The project will create diverse opportunities for free public access to the knowledge of Bulgarian literary heritage, modeling of the contemporary identity of the Bulgarian society, based on the cultural history, forming of cultural values, educational efficiency, efficiency in cultural and educational integration of disadvantaged groups (esp. Roma). Targeted are the general public, students, specialists, social disadvantaged groups (esp. Roma), and Bulgarian schools abroad.
Summary of project results
The project combines research contributions with free access in exposing objects of the national literary CH. For the wide public, it gives knowledge of the national history and culture, which forms cultural and civic values and self-estimation, rises the educational and cultural level of its audience, faces its to the criteria of the high culture, but in an accessible way – by visual materials and clear explanations. The Classics of Bulgarian literature is presented through comprehensible literary profiles (incl. cultural and literary context, biography, knowledge of their works, unique bibliographic catalogue of publications in Bulgarian periodicals), and most of them – also by unknown and unique materials from their personal literary archives (handwritten and printed documents, images of artifacts, photo documents, single sheets from periodicals, documentation of their cultural and historical context and work). The idea is to construct complete, but comprehensible images of the creative persons, their literary and cultural heritage and its Bulgarian and European context. The reached cultural and educational outcomes of the project are: preservation of Bulgarian CH and providing the general public with free access to the knowledge of it; educational effectiveness; contribution in modeling the contemporary cultural identity of Bulgarian society; formation of cultural values; contribution to the cultural and educational integration of disadvantaged groups (Roma); optimization of the cultural interaction in Bulgarian society.
Summary of bilateral results