ABSTRACT
Traditional villages are rich in rural culture resources, such as ancient architecture and folklore, and have attracted attention due to their historical, cultural and artistic value. This chapter explains smart metadata and proposes value addition driven ontology modelling for traditional villages in Beijing. From the perspective of smart metadata, organising the abundant historical and cultural resources in a traditional village facilitates the transformation of “data-information-knowledge-wisdom”, enabling intergenerational cultural inheritance and value enhancement. This chapter collects data on national-level traditional villages in Beijing from the official website named “Traditional Chinese Village Digital Museum”. Events, folklore, story, cultural development, history, and other information at knowledge entity granularity will be extracted from the collected resources in various formats. The proposed ontology in this chapter defines core classes to describe village information, culture heritage, social relation, historical development, and geography. With the guidance of smart metadata and the interconnections of traditional village resources, interactive relationships between village cultural resources are expressed. This chapter offers insights for the discovery of traditional village cultural knowledge and cultural inheritance over time.
