Development of Ontology for Knowledge of Traditions Common Culture of Countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Abstract

The development of ontology is one important research area in the digital humanities. This study aims at creating a semantic search system for traditions common culture in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) to solve problems in semantic gaps. This paper presents the second phase of the main research. It will present how to develop ontologies for the traditions and common culture in the GMS to gain a perspicuous understanding of the traditions and common culture of those countries in the region. A theoretical concept of seven steps for ontology development was applied by using an ontology editor called Hozo Ontology Editor. The main ontology found in this study included 15 main classes: common culture, history, belief, purpose, location, ritual, activity, literature, values, place, time, principle, person, equipment, and ethnic group. Traditions common culture is a subclass of common culture classes that were found to be related to all classes in ontology. This ontology will be useful for developing a semantic search system of the traditions common culture of the GMS in the next steps of the main study.