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Contra Dance
as an
Intangible Cultural Heritage
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A Study of the Dance
"Delphiniums and Daisies" by Tanya Rotenberg
Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus
A thesaurus is a domain model that implements a controlled vocabulary containing concepts arranged in a known order, with clearly displayed relationships between the concepts, identified by standardized indicators, like those involving hierarchical and associative relationships. (Zeng, n.d.)
This draft thesaurus begins to codify preferred terms for concepts and to eliminate ambiguity, especially among potential calls for the same figures, as well as to represent hierarchical and associative relationships among concepts. There is currently no standard vocabulary for figures
as they are used to write, call, or notate dances, making indexing of dances difficult,
and impossible to integrate into a well-organized database.
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