On July 2 and 3, 2020, Consortium of the National Interdisciplinary Research E-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies for the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, integrated within the European Infrastructures CLARIN-ERIC and DARIAH (CLADA-BG) organized a meeting, which took place at the Ivan Vazov National Library in Plovdiv. Current construction of the infrastructure, results achievedand planned activities by the end of the year have been discussed during the meeting.

The partners in CLaDA-BG gave open to the public presentations on the following topics: building a Bulgarian knowledge network (semantic methodology, language technologies, neural networks, annotation software environment, historical perspective); OCR models for Bulgarian spelling texts before the 1945 reform; three-dimensional digital models; digitization of ethnographic materials; bibliographic data in the humanities; augmented reality in galleries and museums.

The Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology participates in the Consortium as partner providing content and expertise. During the meeting the coordinator for IBSCT-BAS in CLaDA-BG Assoc. Prof. Dr. habil. Yura Konstantinova gave a presentation "Bulgarian Knowledge Network: Historical Approaches and Problems", and Assist. Prof. Dr. Alexandra Milanova, member of the team of IBSCT-BAS in CLaDA-BG, spoke on the topic "Bibliographical Data in the Humanities: Bibliodata Curation, Classification and Exchange".

The next meeting of the Consortium is scheduled for October 2020.

Image Credit: Todor Nenov, Ivan Vazov National Library