Radoslav Pavlov

Towards online accessibility of valuable phenomena of the Bulgarian Folklore Heritage

Bulgarian Folklore Digital Library (BFDL) represents a complete web-based environment for the registration, documentation, and access to a wide range of Bulgarian folklore objects. A very important task during the BFDL development was the provision of the strictly designed functionalities. A special attention was pay to content creation, search and administration, trying to cover a wide range of possible solutions such as easy content annotation and indexing, content structuring, storage, maintenance, access, search, selection, group, management, tracking, data export, etc. This paper presents the main functionality, services specification and implementation of the BFDL.

New digital fashion world

The contemporary information space provides a special place for the fashion art exhibitions. The fashion art reflects not only the choice of the society for the clothes, but it is a valuable cultural heritage - a long-term commitment for dress designers. Preserving and presenting this treasure is not new task, but the digital world gives a new vision on fashion creation and performing. In this paper we presented the first attempt in Bulgaria to be developed a multimedia digital library, keeping fashion objects, created by students of the National Art Academy. During the process on fashion study of young people it is often discovered new lines, talented creators, innovative fashion tendencies and new performing ideas that have to be advertised and popularized.

Two integrated digital libraries for knowledge and iconography of orthodox saints

The paper presents the work done within the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum project for building a digital library of medieval and early modern Bulgarian texts about saints in combination with ethnological data and some visual sources. The paper presents the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum environment, its functional specification and software implementation. The paper also presents the integration between the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum and the Virtual Encyclopaedia of the Bulgarian Iconography, a digital library keeping rare specimens, private collections of Orthodox icons, wall-paintings and other iconographical objects, selected from hard-to-reach storages, distant churches, chapels, and monasteries, objects in risk environments or unstable conditions.