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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.
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El Raheb, K., Ioannidis, Y. (2013). Dance in the World of Data and Objects. In: Nesi, P., Santucci, R. (eds) Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access, and Entertainment. ECLAP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7990. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40050-6_17
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