LECTURE: IMAGING EQUIPMENT IN OPEN SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS: BETWEEN THE HAMMER OF COPYRIGHT LAW AND THE ANVIL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE
On Thursday, 4 December 2025, at 13.00 you are invited to the online lecture Imaging equipment in open science publications: between the hammer of copyright law and the anvil of information technology knowledge. Lecturers will be Prof. Dr. Jonatan Vinkler (director of the University of Primorska, University Library) and ing. Primož Orešnik (University of Primorska Press). The event will be streamed online via Zoom (https://upr-si.zoom.us/s/68511632951, Meeting ID: 685 1163 2951). The lecture will be held in Slovenian.
With the introduction of e-formats in the publication of scientific texts, visual equipment (pictures, graphs, displays, diagrams, etc.) has become a semantically completely equal partner to the text of a scientific work. However, the author does not usually create all the visual material himself, but rather, to some extent, takes it from already existing publications. In doing so, he faces two sets of challenges: 1) copyright issues and the rights to republish an existing work, and 2) technical procedures that result in visual equipment that is of sufficient quality for publication.
Therefore, the lecture/workshop will include an introduction to copyright law and a practical application with a demonstration of working with software:
1) capturing visual equipment (e.g. taking pictures, scanning, screen capture),
2) exporting to formats,
3) converting formats,
4) the basics of processing visual equipment.
Prof. Dr. Jonatan Vinkler is a specialist in the literary and cultural history of the early modern age, editor and librarian. Editor-in-chief of Collected Works of Primož Trubar and editor of the individual books of the mentioned scientific critical edition (2003–2018: the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth – with F. Kranjc-Vrečko, the eighth, the ninth – with B. Javornikom and M. Šetinc, the twelfth, the thirteenth and the fourteenth book). He is the editor of a scientific critical edition of the Symphony in F major, opus 68: ‘Ljubljana transcript’, Ludwig van Beethoven with an international review in an indexed scientific journal (A&HCI, Scopus (h), ERIH PLUS …). On the reception of the Hussite and Lutheran Reformations, the imaginary of the ‘Turkish’ threat in the Slovenian cultural space and Czech-Slovenian and Slovene-Czech cultural and literary contacts in the century of ‘townspeople and revolutions’ he has published several single-authored scientific papers and monographs, which are cited in domestic and foreign scientific papers and monographs. Bibliography of dr. Vinkler has 360 units; he is the mentor of several doctoral students. He is the director of the University of Primorska University Library, chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Primorska, and vice president of the National Council for Library Activities. He has received several awards for his work, among them the Prešeren Award of the FF UL (2000), the Trubar’s plaque of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of (2017) and the Golden Plaque of the University of Primorska (2020).
Primož Orešnik is a mechanical engineer by education, but he built his professional career in the graphic industry. He has more than 30 years of experience. First with the technical preparation of printing forms for printing at the company Fotolito Dolenc and then with executive design at the design studio Gigodesign. He has participated in many projects, including as an executive designer for the publisher Nova Revija and as a designer for the Collected Works of Primož Trubar VI–XIV (Pedagogical Institute). He is currently employed at the University of Primorska Press.
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This is the eleventh lecture in the OSUP series – Open Science at the University of Primorska. The event is organised by the University of Primorska as part of the project SPOZNAJ (Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia). If you have any questions you can contact Dr. Ana Slavec, the editor of the OSUP series.
Past lectures that were organised within the OSUP series are available on the YouTube channel of the UP University Library >>
More about the project SPOZNAJ >>
Project SPOZNAJ is co-financed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
