ONTOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE KNOWLEDGE IN FOLKLORE DIGITAL LIBRARY Desislava Paneva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

ONTOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE KNOWLEDGE

IN FOLKLORE DIGITAL LIBRARY

Desislava Paneva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

[email protected] Konstantin Rangochev

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of [email protected]

Detelin Luchev Ethnographic Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

[email protected]

Final HUBUSKA Workshop, Kosice, Slovakia, 31 May – 1 June, 2007

mailto:[email protected]

Contents

- Introduction- Ontological presentation of folklore

knowledge - Bulgarian folklore ontology - Semantics of the complex folklore

objects - Ideas for use of the ontology in

Bulgarian folklore digital library- Conclusion


Introduction

Bulgarian folklore heritage

- current state;

- digitalization and presentation;

- new methods for access, preservation, maintenance and distribution


“Knowledge Technologies for Creation of Digital Presentation and Significant

Repositories of Folklore Heritage” (FolkKnow) project

- Aims and tasks; - Target domain; - Target group of users; - Technologies that will be used;

Bulgarian folklore ontology – the first stage of project work


Ontological Presentation of Folklore Knowledge

- Ontology (according Grubber);

- Use of ontologies

- data-interchange;

- data-integration;

- data-querying;

- data visualization, etc.


Bulgarian Folklore Ontology

- Main purpose and scope of the ontology; data collection;

- Conceptualization;

Problems and discussions:- Segmentation of the folklore text;- The records of Bulgarian folklore are

partial and they do not display the whole information;



- Current folklore descriptions schemes don’t define clearly and unanimously their subject areas;

- Transformation of the enormous objects` number into an end number of ontological units;

- Opportunity for minimalization of the contextual defect;



Defined thematic entities:

- Identification and description;- Technical;



- Definition of the concepts and properties;

- The Bulgarian folklore ontology is composed of more than 650 concepts and properties;



Folklore Object

Language{Dialect, Dialect Region}

Period

Folklore Ontology Concept

Folklore Object TypeTitle

Publication{Caption,Pages}

Informant{Id, Name, Surname,

Occupation}

hasFolkloreObjectType

hasLanguage

hasCurrentLocation

hasRecordInformation

Song

Family song

Calendar song Labour Song

Song on the table

Song for rain

Horo

Winter horoSummer horo

Horo during work activities

Engagement song

Wedding song

Name-day song

In the bride house

In the bridegroom house

Annotation

Ritual song

Record Information{Date, Type, Place,

Situation}

Record Maker{Id, Name, Surname, Sex,

Ages,…}

...

...

...

...

Archival Signature

Location{Region,Town/

Village}

Part of the concepts and properties in the Bulgarian folklore ontology



Folklore Object

Song

Record Place

/…/Chichovite_kone /…/Radomirtsi

has

subclass

type

type

hasRecordPlace Data

Schema

isRecordPlaceOf

Scheme of relationships between classes of objects in Bulgarian folklore ontology

Semantics of the Complex Folklore Objects

- Simple Folklore Objects: “song”, “food”, “magic”, etc.

- Complex Folklore Objects - archived objects which cannot be so clearly and simply (synonymously) classified: the same unit (material), according to its informational content, could be classified into different Folklore Object Types


Semantics of the Complex Folklore Objects

- CFO A1_146_2-14 - an interview containing information of the catholic community in the village of Oresh, Svishtov region, northern Bulgaria. The emphasis in the interview is on the ritual, festival, and everyday life in the village, on the popular beliefs and knowledge.



A1_146_2-14

FolkloreObjectType

FirstLevelDescription

SecondLevelDescription

Faith and Knowledge

Calendar rituals

Labour rituals

Family rituals

Rituals for rain

Annunciation

Interpretations

Demonological personages

Ritual food

Easter

Wedding rites

Funeral rites

Spinning bee

Working bee

Other practices

For wood-nymphs

Ritual

Food

Dreams

ComplexFolkloreObject

Scheme of semantic description of the complex folklore object A1_146_2-14


Formalization:

- Web Ontology Language (OWL);

- OWL Protégé;

National investigations and projects for virtual presentation of ethnographic and

folklore artefacts- “Bulgarian Ethnographic Treasury” (

http://mdl.cc.bas.bg/ethnography/);- “Yuper” (http://yuper.hit.bg/);- “Folklore Motives and Anthologies” (http://liternet.bg/);- “WebFolk Bulgaria” (http://musicart.imbm.bas.bg/EN/Default.htm);- “Living Human Treasures” (

http://www.treasures.eubcc.bg/main.php)- “Virtual Encyclopaedia of Bulgarian Iconography” (

http://mdl.cc.bas.bg/), etc.

- Digital Library of Bulgarian Folklore – will be a valuable gallery of artefacts and knowledge for traditional Bulgarian culture, art and folklore;


http://mdl.cc.bas.bg/ethnography/

http://yuper.hit.bg/

http://liternet.bg/

http://musicart.imbm.bas.bg/EN/Default.htm

http://www.treasures.eubcc.bg/main.php

http://mdl.cc.bas.bg/

Implementation

Opportunities that ontology will provide to the digital library of Bulgarian folklore:

- advanced approaches for folklore content representation, browsing and access;

- synchronous, diachronic and asynchronous point of view and analysis;

- etc.


Conclusion

- Bulgarian folklore heritage will be semantically described and presented virtually;

- Addressed to a wide range of potential users;

- We popularize the idea of integration the traditional Bulgarian culture and folklore in the European virtual culture space;


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ONTOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE KNOWLEDGE IN FOLKLORE DIGITAL LIBRARY Desislava Paneva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences