“Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum” Ten Years Later: Main Trends and Questions

• Published in: Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Vol. 13; no. XIII; pp. 87 - 96
• Main Authors: Dimitrova, Margaret, Goynov, Maxim, Rangochev, Konstantin, Luchev, Detelin, Senka, Gita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Институт по математика и информатика - Българска академия на науките 01.09.2023; Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
• Subjects: Classification; Electronic Encyclopaedia; Electronic information storage and retrieval; Folklore Texts; Information Architecture; Library and Information Science; Library operations and management; Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts; Museology Heritage Studies; Preservation; Saints; Saints; Electronic Encyclopaedia; Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts; Folklore Texts
• ISSN: 1314-4006; 2535-0366
• DOI: 10.55630/dipp.2023.13.8

The paper discusses users’ activities in the period 2011-2022, mostly types of searches, in an electronic encyclopaedia on saints. The e-product contains information in Bulgarian on orthodox church calendar and texts dedicated to saints as preserved in medieval Slavonic manuscripts and in popular Bulgari-an culture (as represented in fieldwork interviews). The most frequently used options are “view object” and “view date”. Most often articles on popular saints amongst Bulgarians were read, such as St. Basil the Great, St. Kliment of Ohrid, St. George, and St. Petka of Tarnovo. Less often are searches by combined parameters and an increase of their frequency is observable in 2019-2021.