Science centres

Centre for Digitalisation of RTS

The Radio Television of Serbia started its activity in 1958, when the first broadcast and the first address to the audience in front of the screens was sent via a signal to all the citizens of Yugoslavia - from the studio located at the Belgrade Fair. Numerous series, shows and programmes have been broadcast from the now famous building, almost a museum of television, which is still located on the banks of the Sava River in the Belgrade Fair complex. Thanks to the people who have worked in television for all these decades and who have collected and preserved material, machines and equipment, the RTS building at the Belgrade Fair has remained a place that captures the imagination of the public. The cooperation between the RST and the Palace of Science will allow the visitors of the Palace of Science to see the processes of work with some of the most modern machines and working methods in the preservation of archival treasures.

What does the Centre do?

One of the most important treasures of Radio Television of Serbia as a national media house is its audiovisual archive. On the one hand, it is a valuable testimony of all political, social and economic developments in the period from 1958 to the present day, and on the other hand, it is a large collection of drama, documentary, children's, educational, cultural and entertainment television programmes.

The Centre is working on the development of a new digital repository or audiovisual archive that uses artificial intelligence to search, process, access and share content across platforms. This includes all archive material, including broadcasts, archive footage, photographs and other data. The main objective is to preserve cultural heritage and provide access to resources for researchers and professionals in the fields of culture, entertainment and media.

Centre Heads

Nevena Popović

Special projects editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Centre for Digitalisation

Nevena Popović works in the Department of Development and New Affairs as the Editor-in-Chief of the Music Programme, as the Editor-in-Chief of the Foreign Programme Department and as the Editor-in-Chief of the Centre for Digitalisation. She has been working at the Radio Television of Serbia since 2003.

She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (multi-instrument module – harp department) and completed her studies in the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.

She has worked as a music journalist and editor, and as a writer, expert consultant and co-writer on many documentary and feature series and documentaries.

She participates in art projects and conferences, and since 1999 has performed as a solo and chamber musician, interpreting classical, contemporary and free jazz music. She is also involved in world music and improvisation, and is often active as a performance artist.

Tihomir Dukić

RTS Realisation and Post-production Department Manager

Tihomir Dukić is a film and television editor.

He graduated from the Editing Department of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade, and has been working on television since 1983. He has edited numerous television series: Bolji život (A Better Life), Srećni ljudi (Happy People), Kraj dinastije Obrenović (The End of the Obrenović Dynasty), Porodično blago (Family Treasure), Ono naše što nekada bejaše (Our Good Old Times), Pozorište u kući (Theatre in the House), and many others.

In the documentary genre, he has participated in picture editing in the films Rok dezerteri (Rock Deserters), Čuvari mira (The Peacekeepers), Ruski beli neimari (The Russian White Builders), Kud god da krenem (Wherever I Go) and other projects, and the most significant feature films he worked on are Pokojnik (The Deceased), Lola, Dva mirisa ruže (Two Scents of a Rose), Pismo za Deda Mraza (A Letter to Santa Claus), Uoči Božića (Before Christmas), Usekovanje (The Beheading of St. John the Baptist) and Delirijum tremens (Delirium Tremens).

He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work in the documentary and fiction genres. He has been involved in the RTS AV ARCHIVES digitisation project since its inception.

Ongoing projects