Digital Libraries Information Portals Cultural Heritage
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), 182p-182p
Abstract:
The current research activities of the Institute of Mathematics and
Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI—BAS) include the
study and application of knowledge-based methods for the creation, integration
and development of multimedia digital libraries with applications in cultural
heritage. This report presents IMI-BAS’s developments at the digital library
management systems and portals, i.e. the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital
Library, the Bulgarian Folklore Digital Library and the Bulgarian Folklore
Artery, etc. developed during the several national and international projects:
- "Digital Libraries with Multimedia Content and its Application in Bulgarian
Cultural Heritage" (contract 8/21.07.2005 between the IMI–BAS, and the
State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications;
- FP6/IST/P-027451 PROJECT LOGOS "Knowledge-on-Demand for
Ubiquitous Learning", EU FP6, IST, Priority 2.4.13 "Strengthening the
Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe"
- NSF project D-002-189 SINUS "Semantic Technologies for Web Services
and Technology Enhanced Learning".
- NSF project IO-03-03/2006 ―Development of Digital Libraries and
Information Portal with Virtual Exposition "Bulgarian Folklore
Heritage".
The presented prototypes aims to provide flexible and effective access to the
multimedia presentation of the cultural heritage artefacts and collections,
maintaining different forms and format of the digitized information content and
rich functionality for interaction. The developments are a result of long-
standing interests and work in the technological developments in information
systems, knowledge processing and content management systems. The current
research activities aims at creating innovative solutions for assembling
multimedia digital libraries for collaborative use in specific cultural heritage
context, maintaining their semantic interoperability and creating new services
for dynamic aggregation of their resources, access improvement,
personification, intelligent curation of content, and content protection. The
investigations are directed towards the development of distributed tools for
aggregating heterogeneous content and ensuring semantic compatibility with
the European digital library EUROPEANA, thus providing possibilities for pan-
European access to rich digitalised collections of Bulgarian cultural heritage.