The karamanlidika digital library project: Connecting karamanlides memories
The purpose of this paper is to outline how an international initiative to connect Karamanlides cultural heritage could be pursued by using digital library technologies. The Karamanlides, also known as the Karamanli people, are those who spoke Ottoman Turkish and wrote in Greek characters in Asia Minor (Anatoli) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The first step of the research was to identify the available digital Karamanlides cultural artifacts via social media tools and pinpoint the useful metadata. The next step focused on the analysis of these user generated metadata derived from user uploaded images. Findings suggested that these unique cultural artifacts have been scattered all over the World Wide Web and lack descriptive metadata. Conceptual framework for the proposed digital library project will be discussed.
digital library metadata harvesting karamanlidika cultural artifacts