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Organizing and representing the relationships between these concepts, as well as eliminating ambiguity and controlling synonyms will help create knowledge bases and domain models to preserve and study contra dance information into the future.

Contra Dance as Cultural Knowledge

The concepts and entities that exist within contra dance, and the relationships between them, represent a knowledge base connecting people, places, groups, roles, dances, tunes, events, and their documentation, along with the unique vocabulary and topics that contra dance and folk heritage possess.

These various concepts, and the complex relationships connecting them, can be organized and represented in order to make meaning of them, and to further enhance both

the historical and cultural record of contra dance and aid knowledge-building

about intangible cultural heritage like folk traditions.

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Two methods explored here include creation of a thesaurus as a controlled vocabulary

for contra dance figures, formations, and roles, and a semantic network view

representing the knowledge base generated through this study of contra dance

examining "Delphiniums and Daisies."

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