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The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach

Investigating the intangible nature of a cultural domain can take multiple forms, addressing for example the aesthetic, epistemic and social dimensions of its phenomenology. The context of Southern Chinese martial arts is of particular significance as it c ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

EncodingActs: Modeling, Representing and Transmitting Embodied Knowledge in Traditional Martial Arts

Yumeng Hou

EncodingActs investigates how computational methods can facilitate the transmission of multifaceted knowledge within intangible cultural heritage (ICH). ICH, characterized by living, tacit, yet complex epistemic systems, is conventionally viewed as challen ...

EPFL2024

Archery Rites: Remaking Confucian Rites

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou, Lillian Hibberd

Ritual archery has a long and vital history in Chinese civilization. This chapter examines the current reenactment and digital reconstruction of the specific tradition of the Archery Rites embedded in the Confucian tradition, ritual practice and cosmology ...

Springer Nature Singapore2023

Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

Purpose: Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have created new avenues to open up cultural data resources, yet mainly as appa ...

2023

Building a Knowledge Graph of Chinese Kung Fu Masters From Heterogeneous Bilingual Data

Lin Yuan, Yumeng Hou, Lin Yuan

Various endeavours into semantic web technologies and ontology engineering have been made within the organisation of cultural data, facilitating public access to digital assets. Although models for conceptualising objects have reached a certain level of ma ...

2023

Ontology-based Knowledge Representation for Traditional Martial Arts

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

Traditional martial arts are treasures of humanity's knowledge and critical carriers of sociocultural memories throughout history. However, such treasured practices have encountered various challenges in knowledge transmission and now feature many entries ...

2024

Co-encoding embodied knowledge in Southern Chinese martial arts: a collaboration between computists, experts, and digital models

Yumeng Hou

This research, within the framework of computational archives, inspects a novel approach to representing intangible knowledge in traditional martial arts. The methodology presents a unity of ontological modeling, semantic annotation, and feature-based mach ...

Zenodo2023

Ontology-Mediated Cultural Contact Detection Through Motion and Style in Southern Chinese Martial Arts

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

2021

Martial Arts MAsters Knowledge Graph (MA2KG) dataset release

Yumeng Hou

Releasing the Martial Arts MAsters Knowledge Graph (MA2KG) dataset, including the core ontologies and RDF dataset, accompanied with scripts for developing the Martial Art MAsters Knowledge Graph (MA2KG). ...

Zenodo2023

Knowledge organization of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive to capture and preserve intangible cultural heritage

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

2022

Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Embodied: state of the art

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as a field of research and site for digital efforts has grown significantly since the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage. In contrast to tangible heritage, where cultural identities are man ...

Association for Computing Machinery2022

Accessing, Representing, and Transmitting Cultural Heritage through Digital Archives: challenges and opportunities

Yumeng Hou

Digitization has been recognized as effective means to safeguard cultural heritage,simultaneously producing a significant body of data resources within the GLAM sector. Digital curatorial innovations in the museums have created tools to enhance accessibili ...

2021

Encoding the Whole-of-Environment Knowledge: A computational experiment with the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

AMPS2022