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Bulgarian folklore songs and their presentationin Europeana
Nikolay Kirov1, Lozanka Peycheva2
1Informatics Department, New Bulgarian University
2Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic MuseumBulgarian Academy of Sciences
March 29, 2012
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
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"Informatics Department, New Bulgarian University
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
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://nikolay.kirov.be/2010/folk/index.html
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Description
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 Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
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DescriptionSources
About 2000 typewritten pages with handwritten notes, andtext of songs
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
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DescriptionSources
27 old magnetic types with original performances of songs
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
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DescriptionDigital Representation – Notes
The notes are presented in a form of LilyPond coding (plain textfiles).
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Description
DescriptionDigital Representation – Notes
Print view of the song’s notes (pdf and eps files).
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Description
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 Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Description
DescriptionDigital Representation – Text
Print view of the song’s text (pdf and ps formats).
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
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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)
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Search QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization
Search Engine
The presented here search engine can be used as webapplication for keyword-based searching in our library.This engine could be used by professionals in the field offolklore research to look for common motives, charactersand similarities between different songs. These could besongs from different parts of Bulgaria, variants of the samesong or simply common keywords.
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
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 Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Search QuerySearch Result TableGoogle Maps Visualization
Search Result Table
The search result table contains the songs that match a givensearch query
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
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.
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Europeana
Currently the intelectual rights for folklore songs in Bulgariaare undefined, so we use the “Unknown” license field inEuropeana Semantic Elements, and the data files arepassword protected.Our XML metadata catalog passes the Europeana ContentChecker validation.
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Vassil Stoin ProjectInternational Collaboration
Future DevelopmentsVassil Stoin Project
Vasil Stoin is one of the most prominent Bulgarian researchersof musical folklore and we propose to start with the digitizationof books, which are published in a result of Stoin’s project in the20s of XX century.
Vassil Stoin collections (books and unpublished records)are a valuable treasury of folk music heritage of BulgariaMuch of the notated songs published in these books havelong been forgotten and not persist in the musical practicesof Bulgarians. If they are published again and equippedwith sound examples, these songs can be sung again bythe modern and future fans of Bulgarian folk musicOnly single specimens from the collections are savedtoday, wasted by the time and usage
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Vassil Stoin ProjectInternational Collaboration
Future DevelopmentsVassil Stoin Project
To our knowledge, Bulgaria is the only Balkan country thathas implemented such a comprehensive project forcollecting, deciphering and publishing folk music heritageStoin’s folk music collections cover almost all ethnographicregions in Bulgaria. They provide a unique music style ofthe Bulgarian Dialect AtlasThe launch of the Stoin’s project for collection andpublication of Bulgarian folk songs had taken place due tothe fact that this task was defined as a state priority bythe Ministry of Education, funded by the Prime MinisterProfessor Alexander Tsankov in 1925 and by allsubsequent ministers until completion of the project
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Vassil Stoin ProjectInternational Collaboration
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.
Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana
IntroductionThe CollectionSearch Engine
EuropeanaFuture Developments
Vassil Stoin ProjectInternational Collaboration
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Nikolay Kirov Bulgarian folklore songs and Eupopeana