RA MINISTRY OF CULTURE ENVISAGES TO CATALOGUE AND STANDARDIZE ARMENIAN MATRIXES

Noyan Tapan
Jul 12 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Ministry of Culture has envisaged
to study, classify, catalogue, and publish all the Armenian matrixes
created by now. This statement was made by Garnik Guyumjian, the Head
of the State Programs, Cultural Cooperation, Education, and Science
of the Department of the Cultural Policy of the Ministry, at the
conference titled "The importance of the preservation of copyrights
and rights for the investment of the Armenian matrices and software
for the further development of the sphere of Information Technologies
(IT)." This conference was held on July 11.

According to him, numerous Armenian matrixes, which are not used
any longer, were created before computer technologies began to be
applied and "it would be desirable for us, from the point of view
of protection of cultural heritage, if these Armenian matrixes were
preserved, restored and applied."

The official of the Ministry of Culture attached importance to
the above-mentioned work from the point of view of the protection
of copyrights of those, who created letters, as well as of the
standartization of matrixes. the latter is necessary in order to
promote the application of high-quality, more legible Armenian
matrixes.

It was also mentioned that the RA Ministry of Culture is planning to
create a section for preservation and development of Armenian matrixes
in the National Book Chamber of Armenia. According to G. Guyumjian,
this is connected with the fact that the greatest fund of Armenian
matrixes is kept in the RA National Book Chamber, which provides the
best opportunities to coordinate and implement the above-mentioned
programs.