Bled was the venue of the 20th congress of Slovenian publishers. They talked about the challenges of artificial intelligence and the digitization of publishing work processes, they focused on the material and design side of books and chose “the best personality of publishing”.
They also touched on the question of what industry is waiting after hosting Slovenia as guests of honor at the fair in Frankfurt.
There is publishing at the congress in numbers presented Damijana Kisoveclibrarian specialist from the National and University Library.
The first set was dedicated to artificial intelligence challenges. Head of the development office in Technology Park Ljubljana Aleš Pevc is in touched on the issue of artificial in an interactive lecture intelligence and publishing houses in of the future. In the following, the gathering addressed the issue of generative models of artificial intelligence in relation to copyrighted works in lecture Luke Novak (Sazor).
The second set was aimed at finding concrete and effective steps towards the digitization of publishing work processes. Mitja Ličen z Založba Goga presented the operation and practical use of software solutions, Alex Murphy from the company Stitson Publishing Solutions can be software solutions for publishing houses of various profiles and sizes.
In the afternoon, they focused on the material and design aspects of books. Designer Sanja Janša it is in gave some answers to questions about book design in her lecture. In the conversation with Bojana Leskovar, the topic of books as an important building block of private and public living space was deepened both through the perspective of architects and experts and researchers of reading habits. Participants were Katjuša Kranjc (Studio Raketa), Miha Kovač (Ljubljana Faculty of Arts), Tina Popovič (UNESCO City of Literature) and Matija Bevk (Bevk Perović Architects).
Barbara Pregelj, creative director of the publishing house MalincAt the congress, the personality of the publishing industry was awarded. She received it Barbara PregeljDoctor of Literary Sciences and associate professor at the University’s Faculty of Humanities in Novi Gorica, a researcher, translator and editor who stepped down in Slovenian publishing in 2012, “when she became the driving force and idea leader of the label Malinc“.
As it says in explaining the recognition, Barbara Pregelj in in his research-theoretical work he mainly deals with various aspects of the reception of Spanish literature in Slovenian literature, with translation questions, literary interpretation and youth literature. All this was also reflected in its publishing work and expanded into new areas of activity. Her contribution to the promotion of reading culture and literary awareness in it is invaluable to society.
Paving the way for minority literature to the Slovenian marketWithin the publishing house Malinc has developed a publishing program that takes care of readers with dyslexiawith its book program paves new paths on the Slovenian reading map related to minority literatures, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, in in recent years, he has also devoted a lot of time to the breakthrough of Slovenian authors into foreign markets, they wrote, among other things in explanations and also drew attention to her translation work from Spanish in Slovenian and from Slovenian in Spanish language, which includes more than 80 book titles in Slovenian and a dozen translations by Slovenian authors in Spanish.
Source: Rtvslo
