Two integrated digital libraries for knowledge and iconography of Orthodox saints

Abstract

The paper presents the work done within the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum project for building a digital library of medieval and early modern Bulgarian texts about saints in combination with ethnological data and some visual sources. The paper presents the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum environment, its functional specification and software implementation. The paper also presents the integration between the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum and the Virtual Encyclopaedia of the Bulgarian Iconography, a digital library keeping rare specimens, private collections of Orthodox icons, wall-paintings and other iconographical objects, selected from hard-to-reach storages, distant churches, chapels, and monasteries, objects in risk environments or unstable conditions. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.