1. Cultural Heritage
Archives on Bulgarian
National Radio Platforms
Anelia Krandeva
krandeva@bnr.bg
Bulgarian National Radio 1040 Sofia, 4 Dragan Tzankov Blvd.
2nd DiPP 2012 Conference
September 19-21, 2012

2. Bulgarian National Radio
2nd DiPP 2012 Conference
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3. Outline
1. Introduction
2. Cultural Resources in EBU Radio Stations and
their integrated Use
3. BNR Archives
3.1. What are the BNR Cultural Resources?
3.2. BNR Archive Architecture
3.3. Simultaneous use of Various Resources
4. Conclusions and Future Work
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4. Introduction
"As public broadcasters, we are called upon to generate, to
preserve and to make available the material that will offer to our
own programme-makers and to the generation that succeed them the
opportunity of greater understanding of the experience of our
time… Among other things, this means that a new kind of responsibility
falls on our generation to maintain, conserve and to use this
archive“. 2nd DiPP 2012 Conference
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5. Cultural Resources in EBU Radio Stations
and their integrated Use
European Broadcasting Union:
 largest association of national broadcasters in the world
 promotes cooperation between broadcasters
 facilitates the exchange of audiovisual content
 serves 85 national media organizations, 56 countries in and around Europe, an
audience of 650 million people weekly
BNR archives
 the sound memory of more than 77 years of modern history
 an indelible part of our national heritage
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6. Public service radio broadcasting:
 not only a wave of sounds, it is a cultural heritage
 public radio archives: an integral part of the cultural
heritage of each country
 it is more than necessary these archives to be
available
 Dublin Core is used in the EBU Core Metadata Set
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7. Is there room for radio production in the
museum as cultural artifacts?
Does it make sense to view radio shows as artifacts on a par
with Thracian treasures and Roman goddesses?
Radio shows should be treated as artifacts of the media
heritage in their own right
COM: sound as an informational tool, not as artifacts
So nowadays, we have to consider the need to combine
the immaterial auditive heritage in the form of radio with
a museological concept of artifacts, and hence as cultural
heritage
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8. Integrated cultural resources application
BBC Radio 4 and The British Museum
project World History
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9. EBU members share their good practices broadcasting
emissions with cultural heritage content on the
platform Euroradio
2012 Euroradio Summer Festivals: 356 exceptional LIVE
concerts from the most prestigious summer festivals
throughout Europe offered by EBU Radio Members
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10. Cultural Resources in the BNR Archives
 BNR: part of the Bulgaria culture, a unique cultural heritage and
modern cultural treasure
 BNR Archives: responsible for collecting, preserving and making
accessible the creative and documentary output of the national
broadcaster
 BNR Gold Fund: status of National Sound Archive of Bulgaria
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11. Bulgarian National Radio
 largest music and cultural producer in the country, six
music formations, broadcasting two national programs
and eight regional radio stations, offers multilingual
service on the BNR Website to provide access to some of
our cultural collections
 various music programs: cultural institutions
 BNR digital archives: a hypermedia publisher
 key cultural actor not only in Bulgaria but also in Europe
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12. BNR Archive Architecture
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13. Simultaneous use of various
Resources
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14. BNR Platforms are already quite
diverse:
 Broadcasting
 Webportal
 Internet Radio
 Crossmedia production
 Multimedia Projects
 Events
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15. Cross Media: Festivals, Broadcast
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16. Cross Media: Broadcast, Events
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17. Events, Broadcast
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18. Cross Media: Events
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19. Cross media: CD, audio books
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20. :
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21. Conclusions
 provide access to our radio heritage
 modern audience - no knowledge or prerequisites to understand or
get the full pleasure of listening to historical radio shows
 it generates a curious amusement along the lines of: “They sure
talked funny back then!”
 the audience needs contextual information and thematic links to
their own horizon of experience to appreciate their radio
heritage.
 significant difference between making radio heritage available in
databases and Content Management Systems and exhibiting it in a
meaningful way
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22. Future Work
Our goal:
 to finalize the digitization of all our archives in about seven
years
 to create a basic online portal from our events archive where
online users will be able to search across some of our digital
cultural heritage multimedia collections
 preservation through active use of the cultural heritage from
BNR archives as best form of protection is our key idea
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23. Cultural Heritage
Archives on Bulgarian
National Radio Platforms
Anelia Krandeva
krandeva@bnr.bg
Bulgarian National Radio 1040 Sofia, 4 Dragan Tzankov Blvd.
2nd DiPP 2012 Conference
September 19-21, 2012