Contra Dance
as an
Intangible Cultural Heritage
A Study of the Dance
"Delphiniums and Daisies" by Tanya Rotenberg
L.P. Coladangelo is a Master's degree student at Kent State University in the School of Information. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004. His research interests include knowledge organization, knowledge representation, metadata, digital humanities, cultural heritage informatics, folk traditions, folk dance, literature, narrative theory, canon formation, and semiotics.
About this Resource
This website is the work of L.P. Coladangelo (lcoladan@kent.edu) and brings together assignments and coursework from Cultural Heritage Informatics (LIS 60635) as a final
course project. The work here proposes five possible methods for studying, describing,
and representing contra dance as an intangible cultural heritage: 1) narrative description,
2) object-based cataloging, 3) process-centric modeling, 4) event-based representation, and
5) knowledge organization through thesauri and semantic networks (as well as ontologies).
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