Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
Transcript of Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
Future Developments
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
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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Outline
1 Introduction
2 The CollectionDescriptionMeta-data
3 Search EngineSearch QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization
4 Future DevelopmentsInternational Collaboration
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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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
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
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Information technologies for presentation of Bulgarianfolk songs with music, notes and text in a digital library
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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DescriptionMeta-data
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.
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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About 2000 pages with typewritten text of songs andhandwritten notes
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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DescriptionMeta-data
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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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DescriptionMeta-data
DescriptionDigital Representation – Notes
The notes are presented in a form of LilyPond coding (plain textfiles).
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DescriptionMeta-data
DescriptionDigital Representation – Notes
Print view of the song’s notes (pdf and eps files).
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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DescriptionMeta-data
DescriptionDigital Representation – Text
The texts and meta-data of the songs are stored in the library ofthe form of LaTeX coding (plain text files).
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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DescriptionMeta-data
DescriptionDigital Representation – Text
Print view of the song’s text (pdf and ps formats).
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DescriptionMeta-data
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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DescriptionMeta-data
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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DescriptionMeta-data
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.
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
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Search QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization
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.
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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Search QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization
Search Result Table
The search result table contains the songs that match a givensearch query
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library
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Search QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization
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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http://www.math.bas.bg/or/nkirov/2010/folk/FOLK.html
Nikolay Kirov, Lozanka Peycheva, Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library