Digitalization Digital archives Security of Data Metadata Frequency Dictionary
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), 181p-181p
Abstract:
The key to prosperity in today's world is access to digital content and
skills to create new content.
Investigations of folklore artifacts is the topic of this article, presenting research
related to the national program „Knowledge Technologies for Creation of
Digital Presentation and Significant Repositories of Folklore Heritage”
(FolkKnow).
FolkKnow aims to build a digital multimedia archive "Bulgarian Folklore
Heritage” (BFH) and virtual information portal with folk media library of
digitized multimedia objects from a selected collection of the fund of Institute
of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM) of
the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS).
The realization of the project FolkKnow gives opportunity for wide social
applications of the multimedia collections, for the purposes of Interactive
distance learning/self-learning, research activities in the field of Bulgarian
traditional culture and for the cultural and ethno-tourism.
We study, analyze and implement techniques and methods for digitization of
multimedia objects and their annotation. In the paper are discussed specifics
approaches used to building and protect a digital archive with multimedia
content. Tasks can be systematized in the following guidelines:
* Digitization of the selected samples
* Analysis of the objects in order to determine the metadata of selected
artifacts from selected collections and problem areas
* Digital multimedia archive
* Socially-oriented applications and virtual exhibitions artery
* Frequency dictionary tool for texts with folklore themes
* A method of modern technologies of protecting intellectual property
and copyrights on digital content developed for use in digital
exposures.