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Nrityakosha: Preserving the intangible heritage of Indian classical dance
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The efficacy of the ontology-based approach is demonstrated by constructing an ontology for the cultural heritage domain of Indian classical dance, and a browsing application is developed for semantic access to the heritage collection of Indian dance videos.Abstract:
Preservation of intangible cultural heritage, such as music and dance, requires encoding of background knowledge together with digitized records of the performances. We present an ontology-based approach for designing a cultural heritage repository for that purpose. Since dance and music are recorded in multimedia format, we use Multimedia Web Ontology Language (MOWL) to encode the domain knowledge. We propose an architectural framework that includes a method to construct the ontology with a labeled set of training data and use of the ontology to automatically annotate new instances of digital heritage artifacts. The annotations enable creation of a semantic navigation environment in a cultural heritage repository. We have demonstrated the efficacy of our approach by constructing an ontology for the cultural heritage domain of Indian classical dance, and have developed a browsing application for semantic access to the heritage collection of Indian dance videos.read more
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Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities for Cultural Preservation and Development
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Towards a conceptual foundation for documenting tangible and intangible elements of a cultural object
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