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Dimitar Poposki Detailed CV 2020
Dimitar Poposki Detailed CV 2020
WORK EXPERIENCE
Digital Librarian SEPTEMBER 2019 - CURRENT POSITION
University ”Saint Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Philology, Skopje, N. Macedonia. Schedule and coordinate digitization
initiatives, meetings and interinstitutional cooperation for the Dean of the Faculty concerning digitization project
preparation. Training 2 administrative assistants/librarians to ensure digitization workflow and project proposal
management. Providing new initiatives for hardware and software improvement and use of open source tools for
best organization and digitization practices. Providing digitization services for the academic publishing
department of the Faculty. Project Management for the creation and development of academic scientific
repository and digital library management.
Certificate of completion – Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives
SEPTEMBER 2013
Visiting Scholar MARCH 2008, APRIL 2009, APRIL 2011 (3 MONTHS CEEPUS SCHOLARSHIP)
Karl Franzens University, Department for Slavic Languages Graz, Austria
Held lectures for the students/scholars from the Department of Slavic Languages about digitization, computer assisted
translation, Creative Commons, Open Access and Open Educational Resources.
http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/gralisarium/2008/Dimitar_Poposki_2008.html
http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/gralisarium/2011/2011_Dimitar_Poposki.html
During the stay at Graz digitized German/Macedonian books for the purpose of the GRALIS_MAK project and
managed/negotiated the continuation of the project initiative for 4 years (2008-2012).
http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/projektarium/Mak-Korpus/index.html
Information Literacy Trainer SEPTEMBER 2008
Department of Information Management & Faculty of Education of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey O
btained a
Certificate of Completion at the Workshop organized by UNESCO “Training the Trainers in Information Literacy”
http://en.tttworkshop.net/participants.php
Certificate of completion – Library and Archival Science AUGUST 2004 - JULY 2005
US Department of State Alumni
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies - Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA C ertificate
of Completion awarded by US Department of State, Office of Academic Exchange programs. Audited
courses and gained knowledge about global information infrastructure, scientific repositories, digital libraries and
digital library technologies. Familiarity with repository software and metadata standards, open access,
management and dissemination of research data, excellent understanding of digitization processes (including
scanning and optical character recognition), digital preservation.
Bachelor of Arts, Teacher of French Language and French Literature SEPTEMBER 1994 -
DECEMBER 1999
BSc in Teaching French Language and French Literature. University diploma obtained at Faculty of Philology “Blaze
Koneski”- Department for French Language and Literature, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje, Republic
of Macedonia.
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
❖ Certificate of successful participation of the Project Design and Management workshop held at American
Educational Center in Skopje, Macedonia
❖ Project design and management skills
❖ Project management for the Creation of the linguistic corpora for Macedonian language. Pilot project with
Slavic Institute from Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria.
❖ Actively participated in webinars about Open Journal Systems, Open Harvester Systems, Evergreen library
software, Open Educational Resources, various Open Access topics (policies, publishing, copyright,
business models etc.).
❖ Conference management (web admin, graphic design, logistics, social networks promotion campaign) for the
international conference “Language and Culture Interactions via Translation and Interpreting” at Faculty of
Philology “Blazhe Koneski”
❖ Open Access advocacy national leader, public promotion of Open educational resources, open government
data, scholarly communication and E-publishing
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
❖ Digitization (more than 50.000 pages)
❖ Scanning / Optical Character Recognition / Pattern recognition
❖ Project management for digitization initiatives
❖ Metadata standards
❖ Advanced knowledge of open source software used for building digital libraries, scientific repositories
❖ Advanced knowledge of global information infrastructure and open access academic publishing
1. Second DjVu Summit Conference and Panel Discussion, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (May 16th
2005). Conference held at the Scholarly Communication Center, Archibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers -
the State University of New Jersey. For more info please visit http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/djvu2/
2. “Libraries in the Digital Age” in Dubrovnik, Croatia (May 2006). I have won second place for Professional
Achievement at a poster presentation contest at which 37 posters were presented. The title of the poster
was: “Digitization of Old Books and Manuscripts with Special Characters Using a Scanner and a Digital
Camera: Comparisons, tips and tricks for better OCR”. For additional information please visit
http://www.ffos.hr/lida/2006/
3. “Service Learning” (June 2006). Summer Workshop was held at Bijela, Montenegro and it was organized
by American Councils for International Education. I have presented a short research about “Service
learning and the Visualization of 2-D Vs 3-D Information Retrieval”. For additional information please visit
http://www.ac-see.org/alumni/servicelearning/workshop.htm
4. “Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage” in Sofia, Bulgaria (November
2006). Presented a poster “Impossible and Advanced OCR - Using a Cheap Point and Shoot Digital
Camera” at the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius". For additional information please visit
http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2006/program.htm
5. “Terra Incognita: Art of Librarianship - Third International Convention of Slavic Librarians” in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 2007). Presented a lecture titled “Advanced OCR - Using a Cheap Point
and Shoot Digital Camera”. For additional information please visit
http://www.openbook.ba/images/3_ICSL.pdf
6. “Libraries in the Digital Age” in Dubrovnik, Croatia (June 2007). Presented a poster “Impossible and
Advanced OCR - Using a Cheap Point and Shoot Digital Camera”. For additional information please visit
http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
7. The 3rd SEEDI “Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage” conference held its place in Cetinje,
Montenegro (September 2007). Presented my work done so far in the field of digitalization/OCR of Cultural
Heritage done with cheaper methods than the conventional ones. For additional information please visit
http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.rs/seedi/events/Prezentacije/Presentations_Cetinje.htm
8. BOBCATSSS – Providing Access to Information for Everyone (January 2008) symposium held at Zadar,
Croatia. Presented my work done in the digitization of Rare Books and Special collections. For additional
information please visit http://bobcatsss2008.org/
9. International Symposia ”Intercultural dialogue in the context of translation and Interpretation” held at the
Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” – Skopje, Macedonia (May 2008). Presented a research titled
"Digitization and Translation Memory as a building block for Cultural Heritage preservation in the context
of Machine Assisted Translation".
10. Held Service learning Seminar at the Department of Translation and Interpretation for students and
professors (May 2008). The main topics of the seminar were Visualization of information, advanced search
of scientific databases and Cluster search engines.
11. The 13thInternational Conference on Information Technology and Journalism held in Dubrovnik, Croatia
(May 2008). Presented a research titled "Digitization and Translation Memory as a building block for
Cultural Heritage preservation in the context of Machine Assisted Translation".
12. The Forth SEEDI “Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage” conference held its place in Belgrade,
Serbia (June 2008). Presented a research titled "Digitization and Translation Memory as a building block
for Cultural Heritage preservation in the context of Machine Assisted Translation". For more info please
visit http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/seedi/events/pp2008.html
13. Held a series of lectures and workshops about Translation memory, Computer Assisted Translation and
Digitization using a Digital camera and Mobile Phones along with some Advanced Optical Character
Recognition techniques at the Karl Franzens University, Slavic Department in Graz, Austria (June 2008).
For more info please visit
http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/gralis/4.Gralisarium/GraLiS%202008/Poposki/Poposki_2008.htm
14. Obtained a Certificate of Completion at the Workshop organized by UNESCO “Training the Trainers in
Information Literacy” hosted by the Department of Information Management & Faculty of Education of
Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, from 3-5 September 2008. For more info please visit
http://en.tttworkshop.net/participants.php
15. The Seventh International Conference “Electronic Library” held its place in Belgrade, Serbia (September
2008). Presented a research titled “An overview of the large-scale digitization initiatives with an emphasis
on the equipment and formats used”. For more info please visit http://www.bds.rs/gpage2.html
16. “Globalization and the Management of the Information Resources” in Sofia, Bulgaria (November 2008).
Presented a research titled "Digitization and Translation Memory as a building block for Cultural Heritage
preservation in the context of Machine Assisted Translation". For additional information please visit
http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2008/abstracts.htm
17. The 4th Annual Fulbright Research Conference “Small Places Can Change the World” in Skopje,
Macedonia (March, 2009). The conference had its focus on nurturing economic development and
innovation in small countries. Presented a lecture about Digitization, Computer Assisted Translation and
Translation Memory. For additional information please visit
http://www.fulbrightacademy.org/file_depot/0-10000000/20000-30000/21647/folder/80264/Macedonia+Pr
ogram.pdf
18. The 3rd Symposium „Die grammatikalischen Unterschiede zwischen dem Bosnischen/Bosniakischen,
Kroatischen und Serbischen“ in Graz, Austria (April, 2009). Presented a lecture about GRALIS Macedonian
Multilingual and Monolingual Corpora along with some Information Management improvement of the
overall Linguistic GRALIS Corpora “Das mono- und multilinguale Gralis-Korpus des Mazedonischen”. For
additional information please visit
http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/projektarium/BKS-Projekt/Symposium3_18-04-2009.html
19. “Libraries in the Digital Age” in Dubrovnik, Croatia (May, 2009). My main focus was on one of the themes
of the conference “Heritage & Digital Libraries – digitization, preservation, access”. For additional
information please visit http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
20. The 6th ProZ.com International Translators Conference held in Ohrid, Macedonia (July 2009). Presented a
series of lectures titled “Boost your translation performance".
a. Part 1: Digitization, a way to preserve linguistic heritage but also to facilitate the translator's work - Optical
Character Recognition
b. Part 2: Digitization, a way to preserve linguistic heritage but also to facilitate the translator's work –
Computer Assisted Translation
c. Part 3: Voice recognition software - speed up the translation process!
For additional information please visit http://www.proz.com/conference/91?page=scheduleor
21. The 37th National Assembly of the Macedonian National Library Association held in Struga, Macedonia
(May, 2010). Presented a lecture on the current National Strategy for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage
and the current digitization practices in the Information Science world community. More info at
http://www.bdm.org.mk/
22. The 9th conference about New Technologies and Standards: Digitization of Cultural Heritage held at the
Mathematical Faculty in Belgrade, Serbia (June, 2010). Presented a lecture titled “The Republic of
Macedonia National Strategy for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage – the way toward an Information
Literate Society”. For additional information please visit
http://ncd.org.rs/ncd_sr/Events/NCDBeograd2010/NCD_Beograd2010.html
23. The 7-th conference of Young researchers of Macedonian Language held at the faculty of Philology “Blaze
Koneski”, Skopje, Macedonia (14-16 October, 2010). Presented a lecture titled “Publishing Scientific
Articles on Macedonian Language with Open Access and their use as Open Educational Resources”. More
info at http://prezi.com/pfdlzkia7akx/presentation/
24. Organized Open Access Week 2010 held at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Macedonia (October,
2010). Presented a lecture about the use of Open Access E-journals, Creative Commons and Open
Educational Resources within the Higher Education in the Republic of Macedonia. More info at
http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-ejournals-in
25. Regional JFDP Alumni Conference "Enhancing Accessibility of Higher Education to the Persons with
Disability" (November 2010). Presented Open Access and Open Educational Resources in the context of
higher education as means for non-formal learning for persons with disabilities. More info at
http://www.maaa.com.mk/jfdp-conference-2010
26. Presented a guest lecture as a CEEPUS visiting scholar at Karl Franzens University, Department for Slavic
Languages Graz, Austria titled “Macedonian Gralis linguistic Corpora _ Scientific articles and Copyright
(Creative Commons)”. More info at
http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/gralisarium/2011/2011_Dimitar_Poposki.html
27. International conference about Macedonian language held at University Congress Centre (July 2011) in
Ohrid, Macedonia. Presented a lecture titled “Creation of Texts in all Functional Styles for the Macedonian
Gralis Corpus (Gralis-Mak) and their Copyrights”.
28. Open Access Week 2011 held at the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” in Skopje, Macedonia
(October, 2011). Presented lecture about Open Access Publishing in Macedonia and the use of Creative
Commons in publication process. More info at
http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-publishing-and-creative-commons . For a detailed
report about the Open Access Week 2011 please visit
http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/open-access-week-2011-report
29. International conference about Blazhe Koneski held at the Faculty of Philology „Blazhe Koneski“ in Skopje,
Macedonia (December 2011). Presented a lecture titled “The works of Blazhe Koneski as Open
Educational Resource”.
30. International Symposium “POETIK, STILISTIK UND LINGUISTIK DER TEXTE VON BLAŽE KONESKI IM
„GRALIS-KORPUS“ held at the Slavic Institute – Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria (March 2012).
Presented a lecture titled „GRALIS_MAK Linguistic Corpora and the Works of Blazhe Koneski as Open
Educational Resource Models“. More info at
http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/gralis/projektarium/Mak-Korpus/Symposien.html
31. The 8th Macedonian - North American Conference held at University Congres Centre in Ohrid, Macedonia
(July 2012). Presented a lecture titled “Prospects and Future Directions of the Macedonian Linguistics
Corpora Gralis-Mak”. More info at http://www.president.gov.mk/en/media-centre/news/1493--8-.html
32. Collaboratively organized a public lecture/discussion/debate/livestream at Faculty of Philosophy titled “The
Importance of Impact Factor for the Science in Macedonia” (June 2012). Presented a lecture titled “Impact
factor Vs Open Access” explaining the basics of impact factor metrics and scientific publishing using open
access approach. Open Journal System platform was also mentioned as a model for Open Access
publishing. More info at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23557457
33. International conference “Language and Culture Interactions via Translation and Interpreting” at Faculty of
Philology “Blazhe Koneski”, Department of Translation and Interpretation (September, 2012). Presented
lecture about Open Educational Resources and was one of the main people who managed the
organization/logistics/promotion of the conference. More info at
https://sites.google.com/site/conference2012pit/home-1
34. Organized Open Access Week 2012 event held at the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” in Skopje,
Macedonia (October, 2012). Presented a lecture titled “"Open Access articles in Mendeley". Explained the
use of online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley and presented an Open Access approach toward
academic publishing. More info at
www.openaccessweek.org/events/celebrating-open-access-week-2012-in-republic-of-macedonia
35. Organized Open Access Week 2012 event held at Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia (October,
2012). Presented a lecture titled “Open Access and Academic publishing” emphasizing the importance of
the use of FOSS platforms for Open Access publishing – Open Journal Systems and DSpace for scientific
repositories. More info at
http://www.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-week-2012-event-in-republic-of-macedonia
36. The 8thInternational conference e-Society.mk held in Skopje, Macedonia (November, 2012). Presented a
lecture titled “Creating an information infrastructure for open access publishing in the Republic of
Macedonia”. More info at http://e-society.org.mk/docs/Agenda_EN.pdf
37. The 1stInternational Conference of Cultural Heritage, Media and Tourism held in Ohrid, Macedonia
(January, 2013). Presented a lecture titled “Intangible cultural heritage projects and the digital preservation
of the Macedonian language”. More info at http://www.conference.ubaeg.org/Programa-Final.pdf
38. Regional Conference “Public Libraries – empowering innovations in the community” held in Radovish,
Macedonia (February, 2013). Presented a lecture titled “The use of open source software for creation of
digital libraries and open access to scientific information”. Conference was supported by eIFL and
Macedonia Library Association. More info at
http://www.eifl.net/events/macedonia-libraries-meet-promote-innovation
39. The 8th South Eastern European Digitization initiative (SEEDI) conference on Digitization of Cultural
Heritage held in Zagreb, Croatia (May 2013). Presented a lecture titled “Digitization of the complete literary
works of Blazhe Koneski for the purpose of Creating Linguistic corpora for the Macedonian Language”.
More info at http://seedi.nsk.hr/programme.html
40. OpenAIRE/LIBER workshop “Dealing with data-What’s the role for the libraries?” held in Ghent, Belgium
(May 2013). Workshop of information professionals interested in Open Access publishing. Actively
participated and created stronger regional contact networks. More info at
https://www.openaire.eu/en/component/content/article/1-general-information/462
41. The 42nd Annual Conference "Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries" held
in Munich, Germany (June 2013). Received a full scholarship grant from the LIBER organizers and actively
participated in the discussion during the conference. For more info about the LIBER2013 program please
visit http://www.liber2013.de/index.php?id=54
42. Attended “Neighbours. Higher Education. Cooperation” conference on Higher Education Cooperation in
Central, Eastern&South-Eastern Europe held in Vienna, Austria (July 2013). Actively participated in the
contact seminars and workshops about cooperation in regional projects involving Higher education. For
more info about the conference please visit http://www.oead.at/nhec-conference
43. Attended 2nd Summer School - Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives held in Macerata, Italy
(26 August – 3 September 2013). Received a full scholarship grant from the Central European Initiative
Cooperation Initiative and a certificate of completion from the University of Macerata. For more info about
the summer school please visit http://blog.unimc.it/ada2013/
44. Attended the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students & Early Stage Researchers (Berlin 11 Open
Access Pre-conference) held in Berlin, Germany (November 18, 2013). Received a full scholarship grant
from the Right to Research Coalition. For more info about the satellite conference please visit
http://www.righttoresearch.org/act/berlin11-3.shtml
45. Attended the OCWC Global conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia (23-25 April 2014). Received a full grant
as part of the GO_GN network (Global OER Graduate Network) from William and Flora Hewlett foundation.
Presented a PhD research proposal as part of the GO_GN research track. For more info please visit
http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2014/
46. Attended the POINT (Political Accountability and New Technologies) conference held in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina (May 2015). Received a full grant from the conference organizers. Actively participated in
discussions about Open Government Data, Right to Privacy and Open Data Advocacy. For more info
please visit http://point.zastone.ba/en/programme/
47. Attended the POINT (Political Accountability and New Technologies) conference held in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina (May 2016). Received a full grant from the conference organizers. For more info please
http://point.zastone.ba/en/govornici/dimitar-poposki/
48. Attended Software Freedom Kosova 2016 conference. Held in Pristina, Kosovo (October 2016). Received
a full speaker grant from the conference organizers and presented a lecture titled “Using public library
computers anonymously in order to access digital libraries in the deep web” (PDF = http://bit.ly/sfk16) For
more info please visit http://sfk.flossk.org/sfk16/speaker-detail.php?speakerId=33
49. Attended workshop “My digital Library/Archive” (Lecturers: Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars help in Skopje
(November 2016) Workshop was part of the KRIK - Festival for Critical Culture. For more info visit
http://www.kontrapunkt-mk.org/
50. Attended the POINT (Political Accountability and New Technologies) conference held in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina (May 2017). Received a full grant from the conference organizers. For more info please
http://point.zastone.ba/en/govornici/dimitar-poposki/