www.linkedin.com/in/bogdantrifunovic 

• 2015: Doctoral Thesis in Cultural Studies defended at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, with distinction (magna cum laude)
• 2010-2014: PhD Studies, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
• 2008: Master studies, Modern History, University of Belgrade
• 2005: Vocational Degree in Library and Information Science
• 2004: Graduated in History at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy

• Serbian – mother tongue; English – fully proficient; Croatian&Bosnian – native level;  German– basic level of reading, writing and speaking; Macedonian&Polish – beginner

• 2022-present: Founder, KreativaLab (CSO/NGO), Belgrade
• 2016-2023: President, Serbian Library Association
• 2015-2024: Director, Čačak Public Library, Serbia
• 2007-2024: Digital Projects Librarian, Čačak Public Library, Serbia
• 2004-2007: Librarian, Čačak Public Library, Serbia

• 2025-2027: IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (DH/DS SIG) Committee member link
• 2025: Editor Transformative Power of Travelling: From Research to Discovery Experience, ed. Bogdan Trifunović, Belgrade: Serbian Library Association, 2025, ISBN 978-86-87177-25-3, link
• 2024: Culture Moves Europe Fellowship, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
• 2023-present: Editor-in-Chief Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (DeGruyter,  ISSN 2195-2965)
• 2023-present: President of the Serbian Library Association Section for Permanent Education and Professional Development
• 2020-2023: Member of the IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group (IFLA LISDEV SIG)
• 2018: Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (SEE maps collection)
• 2017-present: Member of the Europeana Network Association (ENA)
• 2017-2021: Editor-in-Chief Glas biblioteke (ISSN 0353-7595)
• 2016-2020: Working Group Member KS-046, Documentation and Libraries, Serbian Institute for Standardization (main task: Dublin Core – ISO 15836:2009)
• 2016-2020: Editorial Board of Digital Library Perspectives (ISSN 2059-5816)
• 2016-2023: Editorial Board of Bibliotekar (Librarian) (ISSN 0006-1816)
• 2016-2020: Editor of the Serbian Library Association series of conference proceedings
• 2015-present: Author and presenter of the accredited LIS seminars in Serbia: Digitalization of Library Material (2015), Mobile Applications and Services in Libraries (2021), Advancement Presentations Skills (2024)
• 2013-2020: Editorial Board of “E-LIS: E-Prints in Library and Information Science“
• 2014: Visiting Research Fellowship, CENDARI Project, Historical Institute of University of Stuttgart, Library of Contemporary History (BfZ) Stuttgart
• 2013: Research Fellow, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz
• 2011-2012: Expert member of the Working Group on Digitalization Guidelines for Serbian Libraries
• Goethe-Institut Fellowship for 2008-2011 program Narationen und Konstruktionen von Nationalitaet/Identitaet/Geschichte in Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kroatien und Serbien im 20. u. 21. Jahrhundert, Zagreb-Belgrade-Sarajevo-Regensburg

• Digital Humanities, AI, Information Management, E-publications
• Digital Libraries/Archives, Digitization and Digital Preservation
• Modern European History, South East Europe, World War One
• Collective Memory and Remembrance

• 2026-2028: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies of the University of Graz
• 2026-present: Post-Doc, Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz
• 2011-present: Polish commision for Balkan Culture and History, polbalkanology.al.uw.edu.pl
• 2010-present: Alumni, Faculty of „Artes Liberales“, University of Warsaw

• “Memory of Old Serbia and the Shaping of Serbian Identity”, Wydawnictwo DiG, Colloquia Balcanica Vol. 3, ISBN 978-83-7181-929-2, Warszawa, 2015.
• “Life Under Occupation: the District Cacak 1915-1918”. Historical Archives Čačak, 2010, p. 203, ISBN 978-86-80609-43-0 (in Serbian)
• “Antibiografija noći” (novel, in Serbian), ISBN 86-904771-0-1, Belgrade, 2003.

• Bogdan Trifunović, “Old Serbian Books at the Chester Beatty Collection in Dublin: Postwar Fate and the Question of Provenance”, Proceedings “Dispersed libraries – (Post)war Fates of Early Printed Book Collections”, Brill Academic Publishing, 2026 (accepted).
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Ottoman Balkans as the Serbian Imagined Orient in the 19th Century Travels”. In: Du Grand Tour à l’Orient-Express, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026, 99-113. (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Technology, Preservation, and Resilience in an Era of Change: Editor’s Note”, Preservation Digital Technology & Culture, 54(3), 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2025-0061
• Bogdan Trifunović, “From Research to Discovery: Travel as Cultural Mediation from Historical Routes to Digital Pathways”. In: Transformative Power of Travelling: From Research to Discovery Experience, ed. Bogdan Trifunović, Belgrade: Serbian Library Association, 2025, 7-12, https://doi.org/10.18485/bds_eroutes.2025.ch1
• “Going Beyond Digital Preservation”. Preservation Digital Technology & Culture, 53(3), 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2024-2001
• Trifunović, B., Vukajlović, A., & Radulović, M. (2022). “Timeline – Uncertain Past 1991-2015. Project of Creation and Promotion of Digital Multimedia Archive through Partnership and Collaboration”. In Saradnja biblioteka sa drugim subjektima kulture nauke i obrazovanja (pp. 223-237). Kraljevo. (In Serbian)
• Marija Radulović, Bogdan Trifunović, “Sharing Reading Experiences in the Digital Age: Bookmarker Application in the Context of Social Reading”. Bibliotekar 1/2022, 59-72 (in Serbian) (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Dreaming of an Empire: Discourse Analysis of Serbian Poetry at the Beginning of the 20th Century”, in: Imagined Empires: Tracing Imperial Nationalism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, ed. Dimitris Stamatopoulos, Budapest-New York, CEU Press, 2021, 81-100 (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Foundation and First Year of Work of the Association of Librarians of Serbia: 1947-1948”, Bibliotekar 2/2017, 9-50 (in Serbian) (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Libraries Preserving GLAM Collections: could we sustain needs and address growth at the same time?”, IFLA WLIC 2017 (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “The Image of Russia Among the Serbs 1875-1885”, Colloquia Balkanica, “The Image of Russia in the Balkans”, Vol. 4, ed. Jolanta Sujecka, Warsaw, 2016, 87-98. (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Application of XML-TEI in Preservation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage in Digital Form”, Glas biblioteke 22 (2016), 9-18 (in Serbian).
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Occupation, Repression and Resistance: Čačak District, Serbia, in 1915–1918”, Balcanica XLVI, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade 2015, pp. 151-170, https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1546151T
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Prisoners of War and Internees (South East Europe)”, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10132.
• Marijeta Božović, Bogdan Trifunović, Aleksandar Bošković, “The Arrest of Ratko Mladić Online: Tracing Memory Models across Digital Genres”. Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, Issue 12. Digital Mnemonics, 2014, 77-104. (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “The public-private partnership case study in digitization of audiovisual heritage”, OCLC Systems&Services, Vol. 29 Iss: 1, 2013, 30-36 (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Web Archive of Čačak: How to Preserve Local Heritage On the Internet“, The Herald of the National Library of Serbia 2010/2011, Belgrade 2012, 89-97, (in Serbian).
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Haiduc traditions in Serbian society (1860-1918)”. Poznać Bałkany IV. Historia – Polityka – Kultura – Języki, ur. K. Taczyńska, A. Twardowska, Toruń 2012, 33-46. (link)
• Predrag Djukić, Bogdan Trifunović, “IFLA/Unesco Manifesto for Digital Libraries”. Infotheca: Journal of Librarianship and Informatics, Serbian Academic Library Association, Belgrade, Year XIII, Vol. 1, 2012, 59-62.
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Web Archiving Projects User-oriented Review”. Review of the National Center for Digitization Vol. 16, Belgrade, 2010, 18-24. (link)
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Local History Digital Libraries”. Kultura, Vol 129, Belgrade, 2010, 151-185 (in Serbian).
• Bogdan Trifunović, “Developing services for local history research through a digitization project: a public library case study“. 75 IFLA WLIC, Milano, August 2009. (link)

• “The Past as a Bag of Choices: Constructing Wanted and Unwanted Traditions in Western Balkan”, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, 13 November 2025.
• “GLAM Digital Collections Usage As Trustworthy Wiki-Sources: Western Balkans Case Study” (online), WikiLibCon25, Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025, Mexico City, 15-17 January 2025. (link)
• “Healthcare and Foreign Influence After the First World War: The American Mission in Serbia 1919-1922”, 2nd International Conference on The History of Health: Epidemiology And Health Infrastructure In European History (19th-21st Century), Lisbon, Pharmacy Museum, 9–11 December 2024.
• “Digitization and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Serbia 2012-2023: Strategy, Projects, and Transformation of Cultural Memory”, European Cultural Memory in It’s Digitalization – Inventing Cultural Memory in the 21st Century?, University of Graz, Austria, 6-7 November 2023.
• “Visualizing and storytelling sources by using Omeka / Curatescape”, Digital Approaches to Historical Sources, COST Action 22159 Workshop, HAIT Dresden, 23 October 2024.
• “New technologies to support GLAM: comparing the potential of two software for digital storytelling” (with Antonello Migliozi, Marco Marotta, and Nevena Bečanović), ICARUS Convention #33, Portici-Naples, 16-18 October 2024.
• “Ottoman Balkans as the Serbian Imagined Orient in the 19th Century Travels”, Du Grand Tour à l’Orient-Express : curiosité, exploration, sociabilité, INALCO Paris, 25-26 March 2024
• “E-ROUTES”, Enhancing Heritage Experience – Exploring Cultural Routes​, Šibenik, 22-25 March 2023
• “Wiki Wars, Digital Genres and Memory Models Online: the Arrest of Ratko Mladić as Case Study“, Historicity of the Visuality and Image History: New Forms of Digital and Visual History/Humanities, Lviv, 14-15 November 2019
• “Mapping the Old Serbia in European Cartography: Knowledge, Ideology, Collective Memory”, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, 27 June 2018,
• “Libraries Preserving GLAM Collections: can we sustain needs and address growth at the same time”, 83rd IFLA WLIC, Wroclaw, 23 August 2017,
• “Supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals with International Open Access Initiatives“, ALA 2017 IRRT pre-conference, Chicago, 23 June 2017,
• “Standardization of Library Material Digitization in Serbia: possibilities, needs, case studies”, New Horizons of Digitization in Serbia, University Library Belgrade, 23 January 2017,
• “XML and the Text Encoding Initative: Encoding Textual Sources and Manuscripts for Preservation and Presentation”, Service According the User’s Needs in 21st Century: The Application of ICT in Libraries, City Library Belgrade, 10-11 December 2015.
• “Coding Historiography with XML: Enhancing Scholarship and Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries”, CENDARI Guest Lecture, University of Stuttgart, 11 June 2014 (link).
• “Digitization of audio-video heritage in the public library: The public-private partnership case study“, Kultureinrichtungen im digitalen Zeitalter, University of Graz, Graz, 22-23 November 2012.
• “Digital Libraries and the challenge of a “Digital Dark Ages”. Libraries in the Digital Age XI Conference, 24-28 May 2010, University of Zadar, Croatia.
• “Web Archiving projects end-user perspective“. VIII National conference, National Center for Digitization, Belgrade, 15-16 April 2009.
• “Digitization projects among public libraries in Serbia: problems, obstacles and success stories“. ALA Conference, Chicago, 9-15 July 2009.

• 2024: Award “Blagodarje” by the Association of Writers of Serbia for 2023
• 2023: Award “Zapis” by the Serbian Library Association for permanent contribution to the library and information sector in Serbia
• 2018: Award “Golden Badge” by the Cultural and Educational Congregation of Serbia for the achievements in culture and cultural heritage preservation
• PhD grant by the Foundation for Polish Science 2010-2014, for the MPD doctoral program at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
• 2010-2011: The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) membership award.
• Third place at the Poster Session, XI Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2010 Conference, University of Zadar, Croatia, 24-28 May 2010, for presenting poster titled “Should public libraries invest [more] in digital preservation? The Public Library Cacak case study”
• “Best Library Project 2006-2009”, awarded in June 2009 by the Association of Serbian Libraries, for “Digital Library of Čačak” project
• One month research stay at the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague, November 2008, Digital Preservation Europe Exchange Program

• AIRS: AI Rights Shield for Independent Artist and Cultural Scene, project author and coordinator, AIRS is supported through the Digital Spark granting scheme, as part of the Regional Support Mechanism EECA project, as well as through the Up Grants 2026 award by the European Network of Cultural Centers and through the European Fund for the Balkans Innovation Grant 2026, https://airs.kreativalab.org/en/
• SAFEGUARD-DH: Responsible Digitalization and Ethical Governance for AI Futures in Digital Heritage, project author and coordinator, subgrant of the Reinforcing.eu project, from the European Research Executive Agency (REA), under grant agreement number 101094435, https://safeguard.kreativalab.org/
• E-ROUTES: Time travel routes through Europe – Creative Europe Programme of the European Union (Call: CREA-CULT-2021-COOP), duration 36 months (2022-2025), project coordinator and lead, e-routes.eu
• Water care in a Creative Way, project supported by the European Cultural Foundation (2024)
• Bukmarker: my reading e-diary, bukmarker.app

• Content Management Systems: WordPress, Drupal, Omeka
• Digital Repositories: ResCarta, DSpace, Fedora Commons, Islandora
• Digital Humanities: XML-TEI, Voyant Tools, Gephi, XML
• Digital Preservation: Metadata, Dublin Core, Web Archiving (Heritrix)

• Prof. dr Hab. Jolanta Sujecka, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, jolanta.sujecka@al.uw.edu.pl  (PhD supervisor)
• Prof. dr Florian Bieber, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, florian.bieber@uni-graz.at