BULGARIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF LITERARY AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE Prerequisites, Opportunities, Perspectives

PERSPECTIVES The book is not subordinate to territorial borders Every national bibliography collect resources in the neighboring countries Balcanica – why not?

CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BOOK SCIENCE and NEW TECHNOLOGIES Book History and usage of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Digitalization of the book collections Online access

OPPORTUNITIES CLOSER and FASTER We can use GIS for research of: Authors’ and interpreters’ initiatives Book production Book dissemination Communities and societies of readers

GIS – BOOK HISTORY WITHOUT BORDERS Source: MacDonald and Black 2000, 510. GIS capabilities allow us to explore the history of the book in Ottoman and post-Ottoman context without complying with today's political borders.

AN EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL TOLERANCE AND ACADEMIC COOPERATION INTERACTIVE MAP

PERSPECTIVES The future cooperation between Balkan countries will help for better research of XIX century at once Bulgarian, Turk and other countries book history. Thanks to new technologies that possibility can be easily used to our mutual acquaintance.

NOTES MacDonald, B.M., and Black, F.A., 2000. Using GIS for spatial and temporal analysis in print culture studies: some opportunities and challenges. Social Science History 24, 505-36. Zagorov, Vasil and others: History of the Bulgarian book between the Liberation and Independence (1878-1908). Interactive Map : https://bgbookhistory.unibit.bg/en Team members: Project Manager: Vasil Zagorov Coordinator: Teresa Trencheva Bibliographic activities: Plamena Zlatkova, Sonia Spasova Computer processing: Dobri Boyadzhiev, Elisaveta Balabanova

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATENTION! Assoc. Prof. Vasil Zagorov PhD email: v.zagorov@unibit.bg