Knowledge system based on cultural repository of NanTong blue calico patterns

The exponential growth of cultural data lead to problem such as fragmented data, limited cultural context knowledge, and insufficient cultural knowledge base, which has severely led to significant challenges of their protection and development, which especially worse for those people who far away from the Chinese traditional cultural context. Taking the NTBC-patterns as example, as one of the national intangible cultural heritages (ICH) in China, NanTong Blue Calico(NTBC) is an outstanding representative of traditional Chinese folk handicraft. Its patterns carries rich historical, cultural, religious, folk, and lifestyle information of ordinary people in Jiangnan, and is the basic entry point for understanding the characteristics of Chinese traditional patterns and blue calico patterns. In order for public to can gain insights into historical, artistic, and culture of it for a better understanding and viewing experience, constructing a knowledge system for NTBC-patterns based on the NTBC-pattern cultural repository. In addition, as one of the most important tasks in interpreting the NTBC-pattern and its cultural connotations that is to analyze, extract and construct the semantic description model of NTBC-pattern based on its cultural system, which bridge semantic gap between visual elements of NTBC-patterns and their cultural connotations, and show the visualization of cultural connotations through knowledge graphs.Finally, comparing and analyzing the knowledge visualization of specific examples through knowledge graphs which has demonstrated the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed approach for both the semantic description of NTBC-pattern cultural connotation and the knowledge graphs.

Cultural knowledge · Cultural system · Knowledge creation · Knowledge-based systems · Traditional knowledge · Diverse Interdisciplinary Research Innovations · Extenics and Innovation Methods · Software Engineering and Design Patterns

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