Ontology-based search and document retrieval in a digital library with folk songs1

Abstract

Abstract. The paper discusses some aspects of a work in progress aimed at the development of technologies for digitization of Bulgarian folk music and building a digital library with Bulgarian folk songs presented with their music, texts and notes. This library provides digital preservation of the sound recordings, lyrics and notations of more than 1000 Bulgarian folk songs and tools for various types of search and analysis of the available resources. The presentation is focused on the subject ontology especially developed for the occasion and its application in the implementation of a tool for semantics oriented search in the lyrics of songs.

Metadata Schema for Folktales in the Mekong River Basin

“…This is evident from the many studies that have used the digital humanities method to preserve folktales worldwide. Examples include the knowledge technologies used to describe the semantics of Bulgarian folktale heritage [4], and the ontology-based search and document retrieval in a digital folk-songs library [5]. Regarding research on cultural heritage, there are several researchers in Asian countries, such as [6], who developed a multimedia system that educates children through storytelling; [7], who developed the metadata standard for describing Chinese local music; and Chansanam and [8], who developed an intangible cultural-heritage knowledge framework for ontology development.…”

Design and implementation of a social semantic digital library

“…The main characteristics of this prototype were presented at the ELPUB 2012 conference [12]. In this paper we discuss an entirely new version of DjDL that has some essential features of a social semantic digital library.…”

“…This paper discusses the main features of a particular semantic digital library called DjDL [12] and the results of our recent activities directed to its growing into a social semantic digital library. It is an extended version of the one published in The ELPUB 2015 Conference Proceedings [13].…”

Positioning Libraries for a New Bibliographic Universe

“…50 Nisheva-Pavlova and Pavlov provide another example with the description of subject ontology for access to a repository of Bulgarian folk songs. 51 Pattuelli describes a project to develop an ontology for a digital primary source collection, "Tobacco Bag Stringing," at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where instructors planning to use the material provided input into ontology creation and revision. 52 There are tools available to find information about different vocabulary projects that can help determine when an existing vocabulary will meet a project's need or if a new vocabulary is necessary.…”