Projects
2019
In 2019, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia is financing two of the Institute’s projects: Digital Collection of Mate Ujević and Biobibliographica Nova.
2018
In 2018, the Institute joined the consortium of the Time Machine project, which brings together more than 300 organisations from 34 countries. Time Machine (TM) is a large-scale research initiative aiming to develop the big data of the past, a huge distributed digital information system mapping European social, cultural, and geographical evolution through time. TM will design and implement advanced new digitisation and Artificial Intelligence technologies to mine Europe’s vast cultural heritage, providing fair and free access to information that will support future scientific and technological developments in Europe.
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia financed the project Digitisation of the Catalogue of the Retrospective Bibliography of Articles in 2018.
2017
In 2017 and 2018 the Institute participated in the international DARIAH project Cooperation Framework of Digital Infrastructure in the Region − Opportunities and Needs in the Case of Material Concerning Famous People in Science and Culture, which won the call Cultural Heritage and Humanities Research in 2017. The projects's aim was to discuss the important issues about using digital infrastructure in cultural and scientific communities of the wider region (Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Slovenia), with the special emphasis on data exchange and copyrights, as well as to create the guidelines on the interoperability of digital infrastructures in the region. Besides the Instiute, partners in the project included the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the National and University Library, the Zagreb City Libraries, the State Archive in Varaždin, the Museum of Arts and Crafts, the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, ICARUS HR, ArhivPro d.o.o., the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a result of the project, the thematic portal EminentPeople was launched in 2018.
In 2017 the Institute joined the project Znameniti.hr, which was launched in 2016 by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts together with its Library as coordinator, the National and University Library in Zagreb, the Zagreb City Libraries and the State Archive in Varaždin. The project aims at building a thematic portal containing digital material on the leaders of Croatian culture, science, arts and public life from different collection/repositories.
2016
Following the Call for the procurement of electronic dictionaries and databases in 2016, the Institute provided the digitised version of the Lexicon of Law to the European Commission.
2015
From 2015, the Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts has been financially supporting the publishing of the Croatian Encyclopaedia of Technology.
Cooperation
2018
In 2018, the Institute signed collaboration agreements with the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (Zagreb). Furthermore, the Institute signed a letter of agreement with the Jožef Štefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia), one of the partners in the CEF eTranslation TermBank (eTTB) project, which aims at identifying and collecting terminological resources in all EU languages. The Institute provided the following terminological resources to the eTranslation TermBank project: the Lexicon of Film, Croatian Biographical Lexicon, Lexicon of Medicine, and Lexicon of Football.
2015
The Institute joined the DARIAH-HR network in 2015, a part of the pan-european Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, DARIAH-EU, which aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts.
Together with the Institute of Art History, the Institute signed a contract in 2015 about the implementation of the project Modern and Contemporary Artist Networks, Art Groups and Art Associations − Organisation and Communication Models of Collaborative Art Practices in the 20th and 21st Century Art, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation. For the project's needs, the Institute will ensure the retrieving and use of the digital formats of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon, the Croatian Encyclopaedia of Art and the Lexicon of Art.
Finished research projects
Comparative Analysis of Croatian and Slovene Exonyms (2014–2015)
Croatian Biobibliographical Heritage (2008–13)
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Film (2007–13)
Croatian Biobibliographical Heritage (2002–06)
Scientific Terminology of Theology and Sociology and Philosophy of Religion (2002–06)
Encyclopaedias on New Media (2001–02)
Croatian Biobibliographical Heritage (2001–02)
Verification of Croatian Data in Lexicographic Publications (1999–2002)