A labanotation based ontology for representing Vietnamese folk dances

This paper aims at designing and constructing an ontology, representing and allowing Vietnamese folk dances annotation. An effective approach proposed is based on movement analysis. It is possible to divide Vietnamese folk dances into basic units, then movement phrases, movement primitives and dance poses. Studying deeply Vietnamese folk dances features and characteristics allows to find out 5 different types of relationships between main dance components. Typical relationships could be written in the form of logical predicates. For enriching ontologies, a formal encoding of the ontology expertise knowledge in the domain is performed by DL-Lite. The paper uses OWL-2 for building, organizing and visualizing ontologies. A case study - Mo folk dance with a knowledge base, is structured simply but effectively, with reasoning in DL-Lite and answering queries in SPARQL.