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Introduction The Collection Search Engine Future Developments Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library N. Kirov 1,2 L. Peycheva 3 1 Department Informatics, New Bulgarian University 2 Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 3 Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences X KONFERENCIJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE I STANDARDI: DIGITALIZACIJA NACIONALNE BAŠTINE 22-23.09.2011, Matematiˇ cki fakultet, Beograd Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library

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Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library

N. Kirov1,2 L. Peycheva3

1Department Informatics, New Bulgarian University

2Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

3Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic MuseumBulgarian Academy of Sciences

X KONFERENCIJA NOVE TEHNOLOGIJE I STANDARDI:DIGITALIZACIJA NACIONALNE BAŠTINE

22-23.09.2011, Matematicki fakultet, Beograd

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Outline

1 Introduction

2 The CollectionDescriptionMeta-data

3 Search EngineSearch QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization

4 Future DevelopmentsInternational Collaboration

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Information technologies for presentation of Bulgarianfolk songs with music, notes and text in a digital library

Folklorists and computer science specialists from fiveinstitutions:

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BulgarianAcademy of Sciences (BAS)Institute of Art Studies, BASInstitute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies withEthnographic Museum, BASFaculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University“St. Kliment Ochridski”Department Informatics, New Bulgarian University

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Partially supported by Grant number DTK 02/54/ 17.12.2009 ofthe Bulgarian National Science Fund – the Ministry ofEducation, Science and Youth.

http://www.math.bas.bg/or/nkirov/2010/folk/FOLK.html

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DescriptionSources

The sources for our collection are the archives from:National Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage at theInstitute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies withEthnographic Museum, andInstitute of Art Studies.

They are a part of the scientific heritage of Prof. Todor Dzidzev– over 1000 songs from Trakia region that were recorded andwritten down during the 60s and 70s of XX century.

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About 2000 pages with typewritten text of songs andhandwritten notes

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27 old magnetic types with original performances of songs13 note-books with handwritten texts of the songs andadditional notes

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DescriptionDigital Representation – Notes

The notes are presented in a form of LilyPond coding (plain textfiles).

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DescriptionDigital Representation – Notes

Print view of the song’s notes (pdf and eps files).

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DescriptionDigital Representation – Text

The texts and meta-data of the songs are stored in the library ofthe form of LaTeX coding (plain text files).

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DescriptionDigital Representation – Text

Print view of the song’s text (pdf and ps formats).

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DescriptionDigital Representation – Music

The music records consist of authentic performances offolk songs, digitized from old magnetic types (MP3 formatfiles)Music, produced by LilyPond system – computerinterpretation of the notes (MIDI files)

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DescriptionDigital Representation – Manuscripts

The handwritten note-books from the research expeditions arepresented in a form of page images (jpg format files)

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Meta-data

Based on the expertise of the scientific team of the project thefollowing meta-data components of recorded and notated folksongs were identified and defined:

titlecontext implementationgenre of the song on a functional basisname, date and birthplace of the singername of the recorderplace and time of the recording

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Search Engine

The presented here search engine can be used as webapplication for keyword-based searching in our library. Thefolklore songs are provided as an index of digital content –lyrics, notes and images. This engine could be used byprofessionals in the field of folklore research to look forcommon motives, characters and similarities between differentsongs. These could be songs from different parts of Bulgaria,variants of the same song or simply common keywords.

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Search Query

The search engine provides a Google-like web interface thatwould be used for searching in the library. It uses a searchphrase (query) which could contain data as well as meta-data.

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Search Result Table

The search result table contains the songs that match a givensearch query

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Google Maps Visualization

In every step of the search process, a link is provided that couldvisualize the resulting songs in Google Maps.

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Future DevelopmentsInternational Collaboration

Our achievements are also a good base for internationalcollaboration in the field of authentic folk songs digitization.

One perspective is to take in mind the common features ofBalkan folklore (Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece,Turkey), andother is to attract Cyrillic alphabet countries (Serbia,Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Belarus,Russia).

An extended collection of digitized authentic folk songs fromseveral countries can generate many investigations aboutcommon roots of popular customs and culture of the people inthese countries.

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