Abstract
The paper traces the history of the Histdict system, which turned into a basis for the new Electronic Research Infrastructure for Bulgarian Medieval Written Heritage, which was included into the National Research Roadmap at the end of 2020. Through this act the state declares its support to our resources, that have been so far created and supported by project funding. And of course, it is a big recognition of our efforts and achievements. On the other hand, this act coincided with two other events: the inclusion of RESILIENCE (Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies) in which Histdict is taking part, in the European Research Infrastructures Roadmap and the start of the updating and upgrading of the system. Given the situation the Infrastructure is now facing new challenges—not only the successful improvement of the services it offers, but also the inclusion of the Orthodox Cultural Heritage into European research exchange, which will promote and popularize the history and culture of Southeastern Europe.
Highlights
In the periods when our activities were not covered by European funding, we used other project opportunities such as internal funding in the framework of the University Humanities Complex, in which we participated with the project Digital Medievalia (2016–2018)
In 2019 we applied for becoming a part of the National Roadmap for RIs and at the end of 2020 our digital resources were officially accepted as a starting RI
The structured XML document that included all entries of the Old Bulgarian Dictionary was used to produce a reversed Greek-Old Bulgarian Dictionary, which is available online and is widely used by colleagues who deal with the metaphrastic practices of Old Bulgarian men of letters
Summary
We have not been able so far to count on a stable funding on behalf of the state and we had to finance our work under different kinds of project initiatives in order to survive and implement our plans to produce a complex of digital resources for studying and popularising Bulgarian written heritage. Our RI provides digital research resources and tools for studying Bulgarian Medieval written heritage in terms of diachronic linguistics, literary history, Bulgarian and European history, theology, cultural history, and philosophy.
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