Ontology-based search and document retrieval in a digital library with folk songs¹

Issue title: 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing – ELPUB 2012 – Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay between Culture and Technology

Guest editors: Ana BaptistaGuest Editor, Peter LindeGuest Editor, Niklas LavessonGuest Editor and Miguel A. BritoGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Nisheva-Pavlova, Maria^{; *} | Pavlov, Pavel

Affiliations: Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Maria Nisheva-Pavlova, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria. E-mail: [email protected].

Note: [1] Paper also published in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ISBN 978-1-61499-064-2.

Abstract: The paper discusses some aspects of a work in progress aimed at the development of technologies for digitization of Bulgarian folk music and building a digital library with Bulgarian folk songs presented with their music, texts and notes. This library provides digital preservation of the sound recordings, lyrics and notations of more than 1000 Bulgarian folk songs and tools for various types of search and analysis of the available resources. The presentation is focused on the subject ontology especially developed for the occasion and its application in the implementation of a tool for semantics oriented search in the lyrics of songs.

Keywords: Digital library, metadata, ontology, search engine, document retrieval

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0645

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 157-166, 2011