02147nam a2200277   4500000000100000008004100001653001900042653001900061653002100080653002700101653002400128653001700152653001800169653001300187653002000200653002000220653003000240653002800270100001600298700001700314245004300331856015300374490001400527520128600541020004201827                                       d10aDance Analysis10aDance Analysis10aData description10aInformation Technology10aintangible heritage10aLabanotation10aLabanotations10aOntology10aPerforming arts10aPerforming arts10aSemantic Web Technologies10aSemantic Web technology1 aK. El Raheb1 aY. Ioannidis00aDance in the world of data and objects  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84883159289&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-40050-6_17&partnerID=40&md5=6bb64831077491a1545fc6ed47ad73300 v7990 LNCS3 aIn this paper, we discuss the challenges that we have faced and the solutions we have identified so far in our currently on-going effort to design and develop a Dance Information System for archiving traditional dance, one of the most significant realms of intangible cultural heritage. Our approach is based on Description Logics and aims at representing dance moves in a way that is both machine readable and human understandable to support semantic search and movement analysis. For this purpose, we are inspired by similar efforts on other cultural heritage artifacts and propose to use an ontology on dance moves (DanceOWL) that is based on the Labanotation concepts. We are thus able to represent dance movement as a synthesis of structures and sequences at different levels of conceptual abstraction, which serve the needs of different potential users, e.g., dance analysts, cultural anthropologists. We explain the rationale of this methodology, taking into account the state of the art and comparing it with similar efforts that are also in progress, outlining the similarities and differences in our respective objectives and perspectives. Finally, we describe the status of our effort and discuss the steps we intend to take next as we proceed towards the original goal.  a03029743 (ISSN); 9783642400490 (ISBN)