TY - SER
KW - Dance Analysis
KW - Dance analysis
KW - Data description
KW - Information Technology
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Labanotation
KW - Labanotations
KW - Ontology
KW - Performing arts
KW - Performing arts
KW - Semantic Web Technologies
KW - Semantic Web technology
AU - K. El Raheb
AU - Y. Ioannidis
AB - In 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.
C1 - 2nd International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment, ECLAP 2013
CY - Porto
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40050-6_17
LA - English
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. Pages: 204 Publication Title: Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.
N2 - In 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.
PP - Porto
PY - 2013
SN - 03029743 (ISSN); 9783642400490 (ISBN)
TI - Dance in the world of data and objects
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84883159289&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-40050-6_17&partnerID=40&md5=6bb64831077491a1545fc6ed47ad7330
VL - 7990 LNCS
ER -