The paper identifies necessary steps to create a national information system for management and preservation of cultural heritage documentation. The Republic of Serbia, where the digitization of cultural heritage is recognized as a segment of cultural development and officially accepted as one of the methods for preservation and presentation of heritage documentation, is taken as a case study. The paper describes the evolutionary path of the digitization process in Serbia and analyzes the importance of the adoption of a legal framework and establishment of national standards in the process of achieving the uniqueness in cultural heritage long-term sustainable documentation management and preservation across cultural institutions.

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The aim of the paper is to present the digitization of the results of last observations of bright stars made by the Belgrade vertical circle ASKA-NIA N • 80118 (D = 190 mm, f = 2578 mm) at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade. The observations are mainly made by Djuro Bozhichkovich in the period between 1982 and 1985. All of the found observational data and intermediary results are referenced and presented and some research possibilities are suggested.

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