Business Modeling of the Application Architecture of the Bulgarian Folklore Artery

In an attempt to answer the need of wider accessibility and popularization of the treasury of Bulgarian folklore, a team from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has planned to develop the Bulgarian folklore artery within the national project ―Knowledge Technologies for Creation of Digital Presentation and Significant Repositories of Folklore Heritage‖. This paper presents the process of business modeling of the application architecture of the Bulgarian folklore artery, which aids requirements analysis, application design and its software implementation. The folklore domain process model is made in the context of the target social applications—e-learning, virtual expositions of folklore artifacts, research, news, cultural/ethno-tourism, etc. The basic processes are analyzed and modeled and some inferences are made for the use cases and requirements specification of the Bulgarian folklore artery application. As a conclusion the application architecture of the Bulgarian folklore artery is presented.

A national research project of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) that is supported by the National Science Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under grant No IO-03/2006. Its main goal is to popularize and advertise the Bulgarian tradition and folklore in the global information Web space by exposing various folklore objects/collections selected from the fund of the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore with Ethnographic Museum (IEFEM–BAS)