Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronological period and geographic region. Our goal was to preserve and popularize to every user all the precious information regarding collection material. For this purpose we develop a metadata model that enables efficient navigation to the notebooks sub-collection structures, as well as meaningful information retrieval to the collection objects.