Towards Building a Knowledge Base for Research on Andean Weaving

  • Authors:
  • Denise Y. Arnold;Sven Helmer;Rodolfo Velásquez Arando

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara (ILCA), La Paz, Bolivia;SCSIS, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom WC1E 7HX;Universidad de Aquino de Bolivia (UDABOL), La Paz, Bolivia

  • Venue:
  • BNCOD 26 Proceedings of the 26th British National Conference on Databases: Dataspace: The Final Frontier
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We are working on a knowledge base to store 3D Andean textile patterns together with rich cultural and historic context information. This will allow ontological studies in museum collections as well as on ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork. We build on an existing ontology, extending it to incorporate more content and make it more accessible. This goes well beyond storing and retrieving textile patterns and enables us to capture the semantics and wider context of these patterns.