1. TOWARDS EFFICIENT AND CONTINUING USAGE OF THE DIGITAL CULTURE ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING PURPOSES
Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Peter L. Stanchev, Kettering University, USA and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Radoslav Pavlov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Maxim Goynov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

2. Digital World and Digital Ecosystems

3. Digital Cultural Ecosystems (DCE)
to share the wealth of cultural resource, and
to continuous research and study of cultural treasures.
Respond to the growing willingness
to facilitate the access to their resources, and
to bring cultural content to new audiences in novel ways.
They virtually assemble various digital collections, archives, virtual museums, digital libraries and cultural heritage sites

4. Natural Ecosystems
Biology Form, Chapter 8: Dynamic Ecosystem Part 1,

5. Digital Cultural Ecosystems Features
Various “digital organisms” (viz. collections, archives, virtual museums, digital libraries, cultural heritage site, etc.) interact with one another as well as with the living part of the environment (viz. users);
“Digital organisms” “work” through services and tools to satisfy their users.
Digital cultural ecosystems (DCEs) aggregate heterogeneous resources leaning on interoperability support of its building blocks.

6. Digital Cultural Ecosystems Types
huge, covering joint digital content management systems of a big area - one country or a region (similarly to a large forest or lake in the nature),
small, such as a virtual museum, a digital library or a private collection of artifacts (the nature analogues: a puddle of water or only a tree).

7. Digital Cultural Ecosystem (1)
Digital cultural objects (DCOs) are the smallest content units in the DCE.
The DCOs could be selected according to their type and area, author, style, school, location, date, subject, origin, context of usage, etc.
Context-based grouping of DCOs creates a collection with a wide variety of usage.
The collections are saved in catalogues for further inclusion and display in exhibitions.
*DCOs – digital cultural objects

8. Digital Cultural Ecosystem (2)
Main content units and activities for their manipulation in a digital library
The user’s manipulations with DCOs and DCOs collections are related to: access and exploitation, curation, semantic extraction, use/re-use and remix, analysis, study, etc.
*DCOs – digital cultural objects

9. Content Analysis Provided to the DCE User

10. DCE User Ontology

11. Model for Efficient Use and Continuing Development of the DCE
Strategic goals
Steps to achieve the strategic goals

12. Strategic Goals (1)
Analyze research and development of the ICT sector and the needs of the cultural heritage sector  outline the directions for further development and improvement;
Work to improve coherence between cultural institutions, public administrations, research institutions, and local business representatives involved in the ecosystem to develop specific policies to support the wider use of ICT in the cultural sector inheritance;

13. Strategic Goals (2)
Promote cooperation between cultural institutions with similar goals and interests;
Transfer knowledge and good practices among ecosystem users;
Develop a joint action plan between ecosystem users to stimulate innovation and technological development in the cultural heritage sector.

14. Steps to Achieve the Strategic Goals (1)
Make a SWOT analysis of technical development, innovation capacity and economic prospects for ICT in support of the cultural heritage sector;
Develop a common research and development strategy for the new "digital culture“;
Develop a joint action plan and business plan to promote the use of ICT and digital innovation in the cultural industry;

15. Steps to Achieve the Strategic Goals (2)
Create a support strategy and mentoring activities to support targeted users;
Open and expand the existing technologies and platforms for digital access to cultural resources;
Use of standard formats to enable interoperability for digital content sustainability and integrated dissemination to the public;
Consume new creative and cultural content, in turn transform it, provide the opportunity to build new revenue and business models in the sector, to change the practices of the whole cultural chain in line with today's technological upturn.

16. Acknowledgements
This work is partly funded by the Bulgarian National Scientific Fund
under the Research project № DN02/06/ "Concepts and Models for Innovation Ecosystems of Digital Cultural Assets",
WP2 - Creating models and tools for improved use, research and delivery of digital cultural resources,
WP3 - Designing a model of a multifunctional digital culture ecosystem.
Coordinator: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Project team:
Desislava Paneva-Marinova,
Peter L. Stanchev,
Radoslav Pavlov,
Maxim Goynov,