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{excerpt}Bulgariana.eu is an Europeana aggregator that contributes Bulgarian cultural heritage{excerpt}
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Bulgariana initiative is supported by Ontotext !Ontotext-logo.JPG!
and partially sponsored by !ITCC-logo.JPG! Korean-Bulgarian IT Cooperation Center.

h1. Mission Statement
[http://bulgariana.eu] will be a Bulgarian aggregator to [Europeana|http://www.europeana.eu] 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|http://www.ontotext.com/owlim] (in the future)

h1. 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-- unpublished Thracian archeological objects collected by Prof.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

h1. Bulgariana Digital Repository

[Bulgariana Digital repository| http://bulgarianheritage.bulgariana.eu] is a platform providing hosting of cultural heritage objects and the metadata describing them. It gives free or controlled access to these objects.

h1. Other Bulgarian Collections published in Europeana
- WebFolk - [Example record |http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08506/0D3E6758CF3786E39CB3AC75D4CAD6EFDDD65B04.html]
-- 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 Regional Library collection
-- published within [Europeana Local initiative | http://www.europeanalocal.eu/]
- National Archeological Museum collection
-- [Carare project | http://www.carare.eu/isl/News/Carare-project-starts]
- Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences collection
-- [Athena project |http://www.athenaeurope.org/], [Linked Heritage | http://www.linkedheritage.eu/]
- National Library "Cyril and Methodius collection

h1. Digital Collections of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage
- [A map of the cultural heritage sites in Bulgaria|http://ninkn.bg/Pages.aspx?id=3&subid=25]
- [Bulgarian collection in F-Museum|http://www.europeanvirtualmuseum.net/virtual_museum/virtual_museum.asp?lingua=en&tab=0]
- [Museum of Kjustendil|http://www.kyustendilmuseum.primasoft.bg/en/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=36&page_id=141]
- [SU Digital|http://lib.sudigital.org/?ln=bg]
- [SU Digital | http://sudigital.org/?set_language=bg]
- [Plovdiv Archeological museum|http://www.archaeologicalmuseumplovdiv.org/_m1709/The%20Collection]
- [Varna Museum of Archeology|http://www.amvarna.com/gindex.php?lang=2&lid=3&slid=&slid=13]
- [TELAMON|http://telamon.proclassics.org/]
- 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|http://mdl.cc.bas.bg/ind.htm]
- [Virtual Bulgaria|http://www.bulgaria-vr.com/bg/home.html], [presentation of the author|^document_64.docx]


h1. Collections of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage
- Collection of Bulgarian Folklore
- Iconography
- Medieval church-slavonic texts

h1. Collections of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage to be published in Europeana via Bulgariana

- British Museum collection of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage
- British Museum collection of Korean Cultural Heritage

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


h1. Administrative Procedures for becoming Europeana Aggregator
- [Europeana Aggregator's Handbook | http://group.europeana.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=94bcddbf-3625-4e6d-8135-c7375d6bbc62&groupId=10602]
- [Europeana partner Request Form |^Europeana Partner Request Form.doc]
- [Data Exchange Agreement| http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/newagreement/]
- [Copy Right Guidelines |^CopyRightGuidelines.pdf]

h1. The Future of the Past

- [Horizon 2020|http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/digicult-future-digital-preservation_en.html]
- [FP7 - ICT Call 9 - Digicult|http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/digicult-calls_en.html]