TY - JOUR AU - Pavlov, Radoslav AU - Paneva-Marinova, Desislava PY - 2011/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Digital Libraries and Portals Saving National Cultural Heritage (IMI – BAS Experience) JF - Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage JA - DiPP VL - 1 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.55630/dipp.2011.1.24 UR - https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/dipp.2011.1.24 SP - 182 AB - The current research activities of the Institute of Mathematics andInformatics 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 librarymanagement systems and portals, i.e. the Bulgarian Iconographical DigitalLibrary, the Bulgarian Folklore Digital Library and the Bulgarian FolkloreArtery, etc. developed during the several national and international projects:- ―Digital Libraries with Multimedia Content and its Application in BulgarianCultural Heritage‖ (contract 8/21.07.2005 between the IMI– BAS, and theState Agency for Information Technologies and Communications;- FP6/IST/P-027451 PROJECT LOGOS "Knowledge-on-Demand forUbiquitous Learning", EU FP6, IST, Priority 2.4.13 "Strengthening theIntegration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe"- NSF project D-002- 189 SINUS ―S emantic Technologies for Web Servicesand Technology Enhanced Learning‖.- NSF project IO-03- 03/2006 ―Development of Digital Libraries andInformation Portal with Virtual Exposition ―Bulgarian FolkloreHeritage‖‖.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 longstanding 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. ER -