2026 / 1 – 3D Digitization of Cultural Dance Heritage (in English). Issue Editors: Ivaylo Parvanov, Veselka Toncheva

The thematic issue is dedicated to the research into and preservation of Bulgarian traditional dancing through an innovative method for creating the world’s first set of semantically enriched spatio-temporal data of high value for traditional cultural practices, recorded using commercial inertial motion capture systems. The authors featured in this issue are specialists from various fields of knowledge: information and communication technologies, the humanities, and medicine. The texts address topics such as: the technical characteristics of inertial motion capture systems as a factor in the digitization process from the perspective of ICT specialists; medical monitoring of heart rate variability and dance movement synchrony before, during, and after dancing; approaches to archiving digital cultural heritage data in a European context; and the humanistic perspective for preserving, analyzing, and studying movement that the sensors permit, i.e., the new framework for the development of ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology made possible by modern technology.