The National Center for Digitization (NCD) is a consortium composed of the most important leading Serbian (and former Yugoslav) cultural and scientific institutions, which analyse problems of digitization of cultural and scientific heritage.
The work on the foundation of the National Center for Digitization (NCD) in Serbia started in 2002, with the idea to form a consortium consisting of leading cultural and research institutions involved in digitization of heritage. At the present state, the consortium includes:
Mathematical institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsFaculty of Mathematics BelgradeNational Library of SerbiaNational Museum BelgradeArchaeological Institute BelgradeArchive of the Republic of SerbiaInstitute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of SerbiaYugoslav Film ArchiveUniversity library Svetozar MarkovicThe main subjects of cooperation in the NCD are the following:
Coordination of efforts of institutions involved in the cultural and scientific heritage digitizationEstablishing and promoting a national strategy for the cultural and scientific heritage digitizationExploring, adaptation and implementation of international standards and protocols for the cultural and scientific heritage digitization and preservation at the national level. Development of new standards in areas where they do not exist.Launching the cultural and scientific heritage digitization and making plans for possible migration process to new formats and technologies for already digitized dataThe main activities of the NCD are:
Annual national conferences New Technologies and Standards:Digitization of National HeritageThe journal Review of the National Center for Digitization, published both on paper and in electronic formEstablishing, at the national level, proposals for a basic set of standards in the area of digitization of cultural and scientific heritageDeveloping models of the appropriate distributed information systems and specific software for the realization of the digitization standardsCollaboration with the similar institutions from abroad, particularly with the South-Eastern European Digitization Initiative (SEEDI).Electronic catalog of cultural monuments in SerbiaElectronic editions of mathematical journalsDigital library retro-digitized books and documentsDigital National library of Serbia