Ekaterina Dikova

Ekaterina Pantcheva Dikova is a philologist and medievalist with long experience as a translator and interpreter. She was granted a PhD in Diachronic Linguistics (Bulgarian) from the Sofia University (2006), an MA degree in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest (2001) and a joint MA degree in Bulgarian and Russian Philology from the Sofia University (1998). She specialised in Italy (University of Pisa, 2008), in Austria (University of Vienna, 2004-2005), UK (University of Warwick, 2002) and Germany (University of Saarland, 2000). She taught at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia (English Language for Architects, 2005–2007) and at the Sofia University (Historical Grammar of the Bulgarian Language, 2003–2004). Dr Dikova has been an Assistant Professor at the Central Library-BAS since 2007 and at the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology – BAS since 2018. She is currently working with medieval translated texts and was previously involved in projects related to digitisation, namely MICHAEL, ATHENA, LinkedHeritage, AthenaPlus, World Digital Library, Europeana, ArtNouveau, Athonite Digital Arch etc. At NALIS, she was responsible for the Working Group for translating the MARC 21 standard and creating the respective dictionaries, coordinated the creation of a multilingual template to display digitised 19th-century Books online (all the papers mentioned are published on the NALIS website) and dealt with the foreign partners of NALIS.

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