Introducing Digital Bell Objects in Web Based and Mobile Applications: "BellKnow" and "BOOK@HAND Bells"
Galina Bogdanova, Nikolay Noev, Detelin Luchev, Zsolt László Márkus
pp. 270 - 283
Title: Introducing Digital Bell Objects in Web Based and Mobile Applications: "BellKnow" and "BOOK@HAND Bells"
Authors: Galina Bogdanova, Nikolay Noev, Detelin Luchev, Zsolt László Márkus

Abstract: This article presents a research on the presentation of Bulgarian cultural resources at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) in the field of campanology. Problems have been investigated for representing bell-type digital objects in web-based and mobile applications. A standalone offline mobile application BOOK@HAND Bells was created in cooperation with Institute for Computer Science and Control at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI), based on the integration of the Web archive on the Bulgarian bells (Multimedia Fund "BellKnow") and the GUIDE@HAND mobile application family. BOOK@HAND Bells provides multimedia information on bells including textual description (history, creator, material, height, location, description, etc.), audio files containing the sounds of the bells, photos, videos presenting the bells while being tolled and diagrams representing the acoustic characteristics of the bells, etc.

Keywords: Digitization and Presentation of Cultural Heritage, Digital Bell-type Objects, Digital Repositories, GUIDE@HAND, BOOK@HAND Bells

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Bogdanova, G., Noev, N., Luchev, D., Márkus, Z. (2018). Introducing Digital Bell Objects in Web Based and Mobile Applications: "BellKnow" and "BOOK@HAND Bells". Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 270–283