Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: between EU Priorities and Bulgarian Realities

* The part of this article presenting institutional involvement is an extended and updated version of the respective part of a report on Bulgaria prepared by Milena Dobreva for a MINERVAPlus Global Report (Coordinating digitisation in Europe. Progress report of the National Representatives Group: coordination mechanisms for digitisation policies and programmes 2004, forthcoming).

The paper presents the Bulgarian setting in digital preservation of and access to cultural and scientific heritage. It mentions key Bulgarian institutions, which take or should take part in digitisation endeavours. It also presents examples of building and adapting specialised tools in the field, and more specifically SPWC, ACT and XEditMan.