Serbian Archaeology in Digital Era – The State of the Art

Abstract

The paper gives an overview of cultural heritage digitization in the Republic of Serbia. Ever since 1990-ties, there have been various attempts to digitize parts of Serbia’s cultural heritage. These includ ed both artefacts kept at various museums or data gained during specific archaeological excavations. However, those attempts were conducted as isolated cases. In recent years, digitization of cultural heritage has become an imperative for all of the institutions that deal with it. This is why there are attempts to establish a strategy at the national level and implement it throughout the country. Although the goal is to digitize Serbian cultural heritage, special attention needs to be paid to accessibility, since digitized data are easy to misuse. Further on, over-digitization should also be prevented. Therefore, it is necessary to define how, why and to what extent pieces of cultural heritage need to be digitized.