Title
Implementing digital folklore collections
Abstract
In this paper, a metadata model is analyzed to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material and requires a specialized data schema to describe its peculiarities. The collection big size and material variety results in representing the collection as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronological period and geographic region. The main goal is to preserve and popularize to all kinds of users the precious information regarding cultural collection data. For this purpose a metadata model is developed that enables efficient navigation to the notebooks sub-collection, as well as meaningful information retrieval to the collection objects.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
J. Comput. Meth. in Science and Engineering
collection object,folklore collection,metadata policies,material variety result,meaningful information retrieval,digitized material,application profiles,digitized digital folklore collection,precious information,cultural heritage material,cultural collection data,collection big size,metadata model,information retrieval,cultural heritage
Field
DocType
Volume
Folklore,World Wide Web,Computer science,Database schema,Metadata modeling
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1472-7978
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irene Lourdi1516.08
Mara Nikolaidou219438.84
Christos Papatheodorou355955.91