Bulgariana.eu is an Europeana aggregator that contributes Bulgarian cultural heritage

Bulgariana initiative is sponsored by Korean-Bulgarian IT Cooperation Center.

Mission Statement

http://bulgariana.eu will be a Bulgarian aggregator to Europeana that will include

• Public website
• Confluence for discussion, technical materials, coordination and collaboration
• Digital repository for storing and presenting digitized cultural heritage
• Conversion/ingestion tools for converting objects to the required Europeana formats (ESE and in the future EDM)
• OAI/PMH endpoint for serving content to Europeana
• Semantic search using OWLIM (in the future)

Bulgariana Collections

• Pra-historic and Thracian Civilizations
  • unpublished Thracian archeological objects collected by Prof. Valeria Fol, Center of Thracology at the Institute for Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Golden Pages from the Bulgarian Renaissance
  • unique manuscripts of Bulgarian folk songs collected in 19th century by Miladinov Brothers, renowned Bulgarian Folklorists published in 2008 by D-r Luchia Antonova, Institute of Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Other Bulgarian Collections published in Europeana

• WebFolk - Example record
  • published within Athena project
    an online collection of Bulgarian folk songs gathered in 1997 by a team from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Website funded by “Open Society” Foundation, available in English and Bulgarian. Originally, a collection made by the Bosnian-Croatian Stefan Verkovitch, 1874
    Entitled “Bulgarian Folk Songs from the Prehistoric and Prechristian Times”.
• Varna Museum Collection
  • published within Europeana Local initiative

Digital Collections of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage

• Bulgarian collection in F-Museum
• Museum of Kjustendil
• SU Digital
• Plovdiv Archeological museum
• Varna Museum of Archeology
• TELAMON
• Digital Repository of Information and Knowledge - Fund "Bell Know" - Galina Bogdanova, Todor Todorov, Nikolay Noev (IMI-BAS)
• Bulgarian Folk Songs in a Digital Library - Lozanka Peycheva (Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, BAS), Mikolay Kirov (IMI-BAS)
• Multimedia Digital Libraries
• Virtual Bulgaria

Collections of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage

• Epigraphics
• Dialectology
• Archeology
• Ethnology
• Folklore
  • Collection of Bulgarian Folklore
• Iconography
• Medieval church-slavonic texts

Collections of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage to be published in Europeana via Bulgariana

• British Museum collection of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage

Contacts
For inquiries and expression of interest, please email to info@bulgariana.eu or to mdamova@bulgariana.eu

Administrative Procedures for becoming Europeana Aggregator

• Europeana Aggregator's Handbook
• Europeana partner Request Form
• Data Exchange Agreement
• Copy Right Guidelines