Business Modeling of the Application Architecture of the Bulgarian Folklore Artery Business Modeling of the Application Architecture of the Bulgarian Folklore Artery Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Konstantin Rangochev, Maxim Goynov Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

FolkKnow project FolkKnow project: “Knowledge Technologies for Creation of Digital Presentation and Significant Repositories of Folklore Heritage” (contract number: IO-03-03/2006) Supported by National Science Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science Partners: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - BAS, Institute for Ethnology and Folklore with Ethnographic Museum – BAS, Veliko Tarnovo University Module 3: “Development of Digital Libraries and Information Portal with Virtual Exposition - Bulgarian Folklore Heritage”

Folklore digital library functionalities Content creation: add (annotate and semantic indexing), store, edit, preview, delete, group, and manage simple or complex folklore objects and collections; Metadata description, metadata management; Preview, browse, navigate digital objects, collections and their descriptions; Information retrieval and mining; Search, filtering, selection and group of folklore objects; Protection and preservation of the digital content; Administration and tracking services, etc.

Bulgarian folklore digital library Web address:

Folklore object description

Extended search through all the object’s characteristics

The Needs of Business Modeling A way to provide better understanding for the business requirements Common language for business analysts and application developers Starting point for a project Clear definition for the differences between the AS-IS and TO-BE processes

Process Analysis Primary Processes Supporting Processes

Primary Processes

Supporting Processes Project Management Communications Management Document Management Artefacts Presentation and Conservation Other

Virtual Expositions Management

Process Analysis Inferences Lack of a good environment for teamworkLack of a good environment for real-time communicationsImpossibility to expose intangible cultural heritageLack of an established practice of using the global information spaceLack of a space for dynamic publishing of news and reportsLack of efficient practices for managing documentation and projects

Process Improvements Provide a common environment (environments) for employees’ teamworkProvide access to a library/repository with folklore artifacts and materialsProvide a common environment for communicationProvide information desk, news-roomProvide functional panel for virtual expositions of folklore artifactsCreate an e-learning cornerOffer tools for collective document processingCreate a common repository for all of the organization’s documents

Application Architecture of the Bulgarian Folklore Artery Bulgarian folklore digital library Virtual expositions of the Bulgarian Folklore E-Learning corner Actual folklore news Folklore discussion forum Folklore and cultural heritage conferences and science forums Bulgarian folklore in the social networks

Bulgarian Folklore Artery (1)

Bulgarian Folklore Artery (2)

Bulgarian Folklore Artery (3) Web address: Accessible trough: IMI-BAS project team: – Radoslav Pavlov – Desislava Paneva-Marinova – Maxim Goynov – Konstantin Rangochev – Lilia Pavlova-Draganova – Lubomil Draganov