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Online Archives

• Delo

Click at: Tiskane izdaje > Delo > Iskanje po arhivu tiskanih izdaj (uredi po ustreznosti ali padajoče-last articles) > vpiši organizacijo, ki jo iščeš

Statistics

• Statistični urad - data on production, audiences, etc, also in English
• Nacionalna raziskava branosti - mediji!
• Naklada SLO medijev
• Obiskanost spletnih strani

Web catalogues

• http://www.worldcat.org

Individual artists data

• Culturebase.net - International website with a database on contemporary international artists from all fields (selected Slovene artists included: E.Kugler, D.Grassi, M.Farič, A.Šteger)
• Wikipedia

Education

• University directory

International cooperation

• CCP-Slovenia - EU Culture Programme - database of supported projects + 2010 zmagovalci

Cultural policy resources

• Compendium Cultural Policies in Europe – Slovenia -

Council of Europe and ERICarts

• Ministry of Culture documents - Annual reports

• Mirovni inštitut - zbirka Politike - e-book Culture Ltd, Material Conditions of Cultural Production, 2005

Online news on arts & culture

• RTV Slovenia MMC

• Vest.si - online daily

• Government Communication Office - news in English (including selected cultural events, esp. festivals):

• Sinfo Magazine - eg interviews

Encyclopaedia on paper

• Enciklopedija Slovenije
• Krajevni leksikon Slovenije

Field related

General

• Uradni list RS Good source for founding and historical information about all institutions. (Type name in search field and look in "Odlok".)

Film

• Filmski sklad - also in English - news on international festivals, awards, coproductions, Film catalogue 2009
• Videodokument - catalogue and essays on Slovene video production 1999-2003 (SCCA-Ljubljana project)

• Mediadesk - database of EU supported projects:

Heritage - Museums/Libraries/Archives

• Online catalogue of unmovable heritage
• NUK - digital resources, eg. Digital library of Slovenia
• Slovenske knjižnice v številkah - statistični podatki o fondih, čitalnicah, etc.- updated annually
• Portal Kamra - data on libraries, personalities
• GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art

Visual arts

• Moderna galerija - selected artists' biographies, their exhibitions and basic references: Moderna galerija database; The Arteast 2000+ website
• National Gallery of Slovenia database
• ŠKUC Gallery archives
• East art map

Architecture

• Trajekt - news and reflection on architecture portal
• Newspaper Večer - weekly page Arhitekturna beseda
• AB bulletin - editorials in English
• Oris magazine
• [ Architecture-page.com Architecture page Website ] - Slovene architects presentations, e.g. http://www.architecture-page.com/go/people/profiles/sadar-vuga-arhitekti
• [ http://www.archdaily.com Archdaily Website ]
• [ http://www.world-architects.com World Architects Website]

Design

• Brumen Foundation projects

New media art

• CulturalProfile intro: Intermedia timeline
• Institut Egon March
• Ljudmila
• Frida
• Kiberpipa
• Kibla multimedia centre
• Ars Electronica
• ISEA
• Runme.org - Software art
• Dorkbot.org

Literature - Publishing

• Slovene Writers’ Association website - slovene writers portal (Slovene only)
• Centre for Slovene Literature website / in English - catalogues of Slovene presentations, eg at BookWorld Prague, Frankfurt Book Fair
• AirBeletrina webzine
• Slovenia Poetry International website
• Bibliography of translated literature - regularly updated by Miran Hladnik)
• Literatur im Kontext website - Users must register but in order to do that you have to manoeuvre through the German site ... once you manage that you have access to information usually in English and Slovenian, at least regarding Slovenian authors. (Unfortunately the new site design is less user-friendly than it was.)
• Dober pregled izdaj po malih založbah (levi stolpec spodaj): Spletna knjigarna Buča

Music

• Muska
• Slovene Music Information Centre - SIGIC database
• Faber Book of Pop by Hanif Kureishi, Jon Savage (available in Helena's library)

Theatre & Dance

• Maska - in English
• Sigledal.org /. Slovene theatre portal database - in Slovene
• Slovenski gledališki letopis - digitalna verzija (knjige so na voljo v Slov.gledališkem muzeju) - iskanje po izvajalcih
• Finančna poročila MK - vse izvedene produkcije po letih - cf Poročila in podatki
  • Letno finančno poročilo MK 2009 - PDF
• Theatre Architecture in Central Europe - slovenske gledaliske hise - zgodovina arhitekture in galerija slik (External links!)
• Kastracijski stroji in English at the Wikivir -ce uporabis, navedi source
• Položaj sodobnega plesa v Sloveniji - PDF document - diploma by Jasmina Cerimovic at FDV, 2003

Images Copyright

• Creative commons

References for External links

• VideoLectures.Net
• Saatchi Online

NATIONAL CULTURAL PORTALS

• CROATIA
  • Culturenet.hr - English version

• POLAND
  • Culture.pl - English version

• FRANCE
  • French cultural portal - in French

• ESTONIA
  • Ministry of Culture portal - with short description of the disciplines, also in English
  • About the Estonian Guide
  • Culture calendar in English and Estonian
  • Culture guide - in English and Estonian

• BELGIUM
  • Ministry of Culture portal - administration of culture - related to individual field of art

• BRASIL
  • Ministry of Culture portal - CC licence

• DENMARK
  • Website related to heritage - by Heritage Agency of Denmark

• FINNLAND
  • Kultursampo - Finish database related to culture - Web 2.0 - forum related to cultural politics, etc - partly in English