БУЛГАРИАНА, БЪЛГАРСКАТА ВЕРСИЯ НА ЕUROPEANA
BULGARIANA, THE BULGARIAN VERSION OF EUROPEANA

Summary/Abstract: Creating virtual exhibitions and publishing them on the Web according to specific standards improves the quality of the information available on the Web. This helps better educating and raising the youth and providing the general public with better content. Europeana is an initiative and a European institution that has the mandate to create an infrastructure and a single access point for consuming European cultural heritage collected from all countries around the continent. Bulgariana is a Bulgarian initiative for virtual preservation and presentation of Bulgarian cultural heritage, technical aggregator to Europeana, and a network of Bulgarian organizations and private people, who deal with activities related to the Bulgarian cultural heritage. This makes it very close in goals to Europeana at a local level. This article presents one view point for the development and the evolution of Bulgariana as the Bulgarian version of Europeana. Much like Europeana, Bulgariana is positioned as a technological infrastructure, organizational backbone, and a community of proselytes and revered experts, a center encouraging creativity, educating and promoting virtual preservation and presentation of Bulgarian cultural heritage, participating in international initiatives, a central point for preservation and presentation of Bulgarian cultural heritage to the world, an institution with governmental support, keeping pace with all modern trends and best practices for handling cultural heritage information in the virtual space, a contributor in the world wide process of creating conditions for raising a better next generation and building a better society in the future as a whole.

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