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

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.

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