From September 25 to 28, 2025, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, under the patronage of UNESCO and with the support of the National Scientific Fund of Bulgaria (contract КП-06-МНФ/2 of 06.06.2025) and the Municipality of Burgas, is organizing the Fifteenth International Conference Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage – DiPP2025.

The conference seeks to highlight innovations, projects, and scholarly as well as applied research in the domains of digital documentation, archiving, representation, and preservation of both global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage. Particular emphasis is placed on providing open access to digitized national cultural and scientific heritage, and on advancing sustainable policies for its long-term digital preservation and safeguarding. Keynote speakers invited to the forum include Dr. Giuliano Guffrida from the Vatican Apostolic Library, Prof. Dr. Ioannis Pratikakis from Democritus University of Thrace, and Prof. Dr. Marco Scarpa from the University of Messina, among others, who will present innovative projects and technological developments in the field of digital palaeography.

The distinguished scientific event DiPP2025 will be opened on September 25, 2025, at 12:30 PM at the Cultural Center Sea Casino in Burgas. This event supports Burgas’ candidature for European Capital of Culture 2032.

Co-organizers: Regional Academic Center of BAS – Burgas, Regional Historical Museum – Burgas, Burgas Free University, Regional Library Peyo Yavorov, Burgas, Burgas State University Prof. A. Zlatarov

Accompanying events:

  • The 16th National Information Day: Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Bulgarian Open Science Cloud;
  • 4th Information Day Research Infrastructure Services in the Humanities and Social Sciences, organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – BAS, presenting research outcomes of the project National Interdisciplinary Research E-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies for the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, integrated within the European infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH (CLADA-BG).

Further information about the conference is available on the DiPP2025 website: http://dipp2025.math.bas.bg/.

Research reports presented at the forum are published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus (SJR), and accessible online at http://dipp.math.bas.bg