Multimedia Digital Library as a Constructive Block in Ecosystems for Digital Cultural Assets

Abstract

Libraries have always been a valuable source of knowledge. The technology evolution transformed the traditional libraries into digital ones which arose the need of efficient serve of the huge amount of information that now exists in the form of digitized content. The focus of the monographic study “Multimedia Digital Library: Constructive Block in Ecosystems for Digital Cultural Assets. Basic Functionality and Services” is on the search of innovations especially in areas and subareas relevant to digital library data management and processing—innovative and creative tools for approaching cultural assets, applications and services for better access and exploiting of the rich and diverse digital cultural heritage in a sustainable way, intelligent curation, creative use/re-use and remix, reinterpretation, study, understanding, analysis, personalization, adaptation, semantics, etc. The research deals with important issues of handling data directly, affecting the economy (as presented by creative and re-creative industry), the public sector (cultural institutions—museums, libraries, galleries, etc.), education, and society as a whole.

Concept for Use of Consumer Mobile Devices and Smart Applications for Preservation of Cultural Heritage

“…Thousands of professions were transformed, hundreds disappeared irrevocably, and many new, presumably digital, jobs were created. The digital content, created in the last few years is times bigger than everything accumulated in all the millenia of human history and digital libraries became a natural part of our lifes' ecosystem (Paneva-Marinova, Goynov, & Luchev, 2017).…”

Intelligent Data Curation in Virtual Museum for Ancient History and Civilization

“…The above described solution for virtual museum architecture follows authors' previous developments in the digital content management systems (viz.. digital libraries, digital repositories, galleries, etc.) for Bulgarian artworks and treasuries (see (Paneva-Marinova, Goynov, & Luchev, 2017), (Luchev, Paneva-Marinova, Pavlova-Draganova, & Pavlov, 2013), (Paneva-Marinova, Pavlov, & Rangochev, 2010), (Pavlova-Draganova, Paneva-Marinova, and (Goynov, Paneva-Marinova, & Dimitrova, 2011). These systems are successfully implemented to presents the valuable Bulgarian cultural heritage: Bulgarian iconographic art, Bulgarian ethnographic and folklore artefacts, medieval and early modern Bulgarian texts for saints in combination with ethnological data and visual sources, etc.…”

About Semantic Knowledge for Accessibility

“…Many authors have studied the process of retrieving and managing digital information and gaining semantic metadata with different applications (Dimova, Paneva-Marinova, & Pavlova, 2018), (Marty, 2008), (Paneva-Marinova, Goynov, & Luchev, 2017), (Grigorova, et al, 2012).…”