Abstract: Today there are a large number of digital archives, libraries and museums with rich digital collections representing the European cultural and historical heritage. The new challenge shifts from having online access to resources to making an effective use of them and avoiding information overload. A possible answer to this challenge is the approach, used for the development of the “Virtual encyclopedia of the Bulgarian Iconography” digital library (BIDL). It is a complete web-based environment for registration, documentation, access and exploration of a practically unlimited number of Bulgarian iconographical artefacts and knowledge. The key for its efficiency is the provision of strictly designed functionalities, powered by a long-term observation of the users’ preferences, cognitive goals, and needs, aiming to find an optimal functionality solution for the end users. A special attention was pay to search and administrative services, trying to cover a wide range of possible solutions such as keyword search, extended keyword search, semantic-based search, complex search, search with result grouping, tracking services, DL data exportation, etc. This paper presents these services in detail, their functional specifications and used algorithms. The ontology of the East-Christian? Iconographical Art is discussed, because of its important role for the semantic description and search of iconographical artefacts and knowledge in the library.

Keywords: multimedia digital libraries, systems issues, user issues, online information services

ACM Classification Keywords: H.3.5 Online Information Services – Web-based services, H.3.7 Digital Libraries – Collection, Dissemination, System issues.

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SEARCH AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IN ICONOGRAPHICAL DIGITAL LIBRARY

Desislava Paneva-Marinova?, Radoslav Pavlov, Maxim Goynov, Lilia Pavlova-Draganova?, Lubomil Draganov

http://foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-18/ibs-18-p20.pdf