02146nas a2200337   4500000000100000008004100001260005100042653002200093653002300115653002100138653003400159653002700193653002600220653002600246653002700272653002400299653002500323653002400348653002400372653001900396653002500415653000800440100002200448700002000470700002900490245006400519856011800583300001400701520106800715020002501783                                       d  bEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)10acultural heritage10aCultural heritages10aDatabase systems10aIntangible cultural heritages10aInterfaces (materials)10aLinguistic properties10aMultimedia annotation10aMultimedia annotations10aMultimedia database10aMultimedia documents10aNative XML database10aNative xml database10aSearch engines10aSpatial informations10aXML1 aIvana Tanasijevic1 aBiljana Sikimic1 aGordana Pavlovic-Lazetic00aMultimedia database of the cultural heritage of the Balkans  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85037333778&partnerID=40&md5=1f13ec3d24c0d42223c31ce0a9508ae8  a2874-28813 aThis paper presents a system that is designed to make possible the organization and search within the collected digitized material of intangible cultural heritage. The motivation for building the system was a vast quantity of multimedia documents collected by a team from the Institute for Balkan Studies in Belgrade. The main topic of their research were linguistic properties of speeches that are used in various places in the Balkans by different groups of people. This paper deals with a prototype system that enables the annotation of the collected material and its organization into a native XML database through a graphical interface. The system enables the search of the database and the presentation of digitized multimedia documents and spatial as well as non-spatial information of the queried data. The multimedia content can be read, listened to or watched while spatial properties are presented on the graphics that consists of geographic regions in the Balkans. The system also enables spatial queries by consulting the graph of geographic regions.  a9782951740877 (ISBN)