Multimedia Digital Libraries Services Slavic Saints Orthodoxy Orthodox Iconography
Issue Date:
2011
Publisher:
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, Vol. 1, No 1, (2011), 99p-110p
Abstract:
Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum project aims at building a
repertoire of medieval and early modern Bulgarian texts for saints in
combination with ethnological data and some visual sources. A basic project
task is to produce an accessible on-line digital repository of this valuable
cultural heritage treasure. The paper presents the Encyclopaedia Slavica
Sanctorum environment, its architecture, functional specification, application
modeling process and software implementation. The paper also discusses the
specifics of the ―Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum‖ project and its knowledge
domain. The paper also presents the integration between the Encyclopaedia
Slavica Sanctorum and the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library, a digital
library keeping rare specimens, private collections of Orthodox icons, wall-
paintings and other iconographical objects, selected from difficult-to-access
storages, distant churches, chapels, and monasteries, objects in a risk
environment or unstable conditions.