Digital libraries with multimedia content Digital library architectures Cultural heritage National Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian ethnographic treasury.
Issue Date:
2007
Publisher:
Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA
Abstract:
The conservation, spread, comprehension and recreation of traditional culture heritages is one of the
main purpose of the National Ethnographic Museum in Bulgaria. As other cultural and scientific heritage
institutions, it begins to use new information technologies and strategies for providing access to its cultural
heritage treasures. This paper aims to present digital libraries with multimedia content as a modern technological
solution for innovative presentation of Bulgarian ethnographical heritage. It includes some basic concepts of
digital libraries with multimedia content and a description of three types of architecture. The paper also describes
the ideas, conceptual decisions and strategies in the project Experimental Digital Library “Bulgarian Ethnographic
Treasury”.