Ontology-Driven Cultural Heritage Conservation: A Case of The Analects of Confucius

Applied Sciences

Tong Wei¹  Fengxiang Wang¹  Jun Wang¹ 

[1] The Department of Information Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;

关键词: cultural heritage;    ontology;    Confucianism;    The Analects of Confucius;    essential characteristics;    protégé;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app12010287

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Confucianism, recognized as the belief system of Chinese, is one of the most important intangible cultural heritages of China. The main ideas of its founder, Confucius, are written in The Analects of Confucius. However, its scattered chapters and the obscurity of ancient Chinese have prevented many people from understanding it. In order to overcome this difficulty, it needs some modern ways to reveal the vague connotation of Confucianism. This paper aims to describe how to construct the Lunyu ontology in which all concepts are abstract within the core scope, i.e., morality of Confucianism. The key task of this project lies in identifying essential characteristics, a notion that is compliant with the ISO principles on Terminology (ISO 1087 and 704), according to which a concept is defined as a combination of essential characteristics. This paper proposed an approach in the practice of identifying essential characteristics of abstract concepts from different meanings of its Chinese terms in The Analects of Confucius. With this work, Lunyu ontology established a semantic, formal, and explicit representation system for concepts of Confucianism, and the new proposed approach provides a useful reference for other researchers.

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