Contra Dance
as an
Intangible Cultural Heritage
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A Study of the Dance
"Delphiniums and Daisies" by Tanya Rotenberg
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."