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The Orthodox Icons Collection of the Regional Historical Museum—Burgas: A Digital Library for Iconographic Objects
The Orthodox Icons Collection of the Regional Historical Museum—Burgas: A Digital Library for Iconographic Objects

Author(s): Radovesta Stewart, Lilia Pavlova, Detelin Luchev, Mariya Monova-Zheleva, Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Radoslav Pavlov, Yanislav Zhelev
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Институт по математика и информатика - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Multimedia Digital Library; Virtual Museum Collections; Functionality; Services; Evaluation of Applicability; Evaluation of Necessity; Evaluation of Economic Effect.

Summary/Abstract: In an attempt to answer the needs for wider accessibility of the orthodox icons collection of the Regional Historical Museum—Burgas (RHM—Burgas), a team from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics has developed and applied a multimedia digital library “Virtual Collection of Icons”. This development aims at adequate and complex presenting, documenting, cataloguing and preserving of orthodox icons through the use of modern technologies. Section 2 and 3 briefly describes a methodology for evaluation the need of introduction this innovation in RHM-Burgas, the innovative solution’s degree of viability and the economic impact. Section 4 presents the developed digital library, passing from the semantic description of the iconographic art content to the library architecture and functionality. In the last section are described some conclusions and aspects for future work.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: V
  • Page Range: 157-172
  • Page Count: 16