Hrvoje Stančić, PhD, project lead, is a full professor and Chair of Archival and Documentation Sciences at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where he teaches at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. He is author of the book “Digitisation”, co-author of “Archival dictionary. English-Croatian, Croatian-English”, and more than 130 published papers. He was Director of the European research team at the InterPARES Trust international research project (2013-2019). He is member of the Board of Croatian Archival Society. At the Croatian Standards Institute he is President of the mirror technical committee for development of ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies and member of the ISO/TC 46/SC 11 Archives/records management - Joint Working Group 1 - Blockchain. His main interests are digitisation, document and records management, long-term digital preservation, authentic and trustworthy digital records, digital signatures, digital timestamps, blockchain and DLT, and disruptive technologies applied to office and archival processes.
Arian Rajh, izv. prof. inform. i kom. zn. – arhivistike i dokumentalistike, arhivist, specijalnost za novije arhivsko gradivo, ima 17 god. iskustva u struci. Od 2006. do 2022. radio je u Agenciji, od toga 10 godina kao voditelj odsjeka. Radio je na voditeljskim poslovima, poslovima izrade i održavanja spisovodstvene i arhivske politike ustanove te na implementaciji internih i vanjskih EU projekata (EU IPA 2009 TAIB projekt koji je pokrenuo i vodio, program digitalizacije i migracije gradiva, uvođenje elektroničke dokumentacije o lijeku u hrvatsku regulatornu praksu, brojni projekti nabave ili izrade i nadogradnje IT sustava). Od 2009. sudjeluje u nastavi kao vanjski suradnik Filozofskog fakulteta, a od 2022. zaposlen je kao član Odsjeka za informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti. Predaje „Uvod u arhivsku teoriju i praksu“, „Sređivanje i opis arhivskog gradiva“, “Spisovodstvo” i “Vrednovanje arhivskog gradiva” na I., II. i III. god. na Odsjeku za inform. i kom. znanosti Filozofskog fakulteta Zagreb. Sudjelovao je u izradi nastavnog materijala na Odsjeku i recenziji materijale za Veleučilište u Požegi. Od 2009. do 2014. predavao je na kolegiju Planiranje i oblikovanje sustava za upravljanje gradivom. Od 2012. godine ima zn.-nast. zvanje naslovnog docenta, od 2018. naslovnog izvanrednog profesora, a od 2022. izvanrednog profesora. Sudjelovao je na radionicama Odsjeka (br. 23, 26, 28, 31, 37) i na obrazovanju za HRT, a 2017. na “Digital Preservation” radionici za UN-ovu Međunarodnu agenciju za atomsku energiju. Bio je mentor studentske prakse, završnih i dipl. radova te član povjerenstava za ocjenu doktorskih radova i za napredovanja u zn. zvanja.
Helena Stublić, PhD, assistant professor, born in Zagreb. In 2008 graduated in art history and information and communication sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From the year 2008 works at the same Faculty as the researcher and teaching assistant at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences. Completed her doctoral thesis "Interpretation Strategies of Permanent Exhibitions in Art Museums" in September 2014 at the same Faculty. Assistant Professor since October 2018. Special interest in blockchain (and new technologies in general), NFTs, women in crypto and universe.
Željko Trbušić, PhD, teaching assistant at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He successfully completed his post-graduate doctoral studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2022 with the preparation and defense of his doctoral dissertation entitled Methods for analysis and process optimisation of optical character recognition in archival information systems. So far, he published more than fifteen professional and scientific papers in journals in Croatia and abroad and has participated in many domestic and international scientific conferences, among which stand out the participation in the organizing committee of the international conference AERI (Archival Education and Research Initiative) in 2021 and 2022. He is an active member of the Croatian Archival Society and the association ICARUS Croatia. In 2020, he was awarded a prestigious international scholarship from the AIEF Foundation (ARMA International Educational Foundation) for his work in the field of information management.
Matea Bilogrivić graduated art history and French language and literature at the University of Zagreb. During her studies, she participated in numerous workshops and projects, including the organization of the VIth Congress of Art History Students and co-editing of its proceedings. She currently works as assistant conservator at the Croatian Conservation Institute, in the field of movable cultural heritage. She is also pursuing a PhD in information and communication sciences at the University of Zagreb with interest in NFTs in museum environment.
Željka Dmitrus-Purić has a master's degree in Latin language education, Roman literature, and Croatian Latinity. In 2014, she graduated with the Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, majoring in Croatian Latin with the subject of Mythology in "De raptu Cerberi" by Jakov Bunić. She is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb, majoring in Medieval Studies. She has been working at the State Archives in Zagreb since 2014, and her specialty is working on older archival material, on which her doctoral dissertation is based. In the Archives, she works in the Department for arranging and processing archival material as the head of the department. She initiated the participation of the State Archives in Zagreb in the prestigious project "Enriching Europeana through citizen science and artificial intelligence - unlocking the 19th century" (Enrich Europeana+) and is the author of dozens of professional papers in the field of arranging and digitizing archival material.