01671nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002400043653002600067653003700093653002600130653002100156100001400177700001700191700001300208245007800221856014800299490000600447520098000453022002001433                                       d10aConcept recognition10aHeritage preservation10aMultimedia web ontology language10aOntology construction10aVideo Annotation1 aA. Mallik1 aS. Chaudhury1 aH. Ghosh00aNrityakosha: Preserving the intangible heritage of indian classical dance  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979842387&doi=10.1145%2f2069276.2069280&partnerID=40&md5=00835595485635b6d13c19834d5478040 v43 aPreservation 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.  a15564673 (ISSN)