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ARTICLE 

Research on Knowledge Organization of Intangible 
Cultural Heritage Based on Metadata 
Qing Fan, Guoxin Tan, Chuanming Sun, and Panfeng Chen 

 

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https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v41i2.14093 

Qing Fan (fanqmy@hotmail.com) is PhD student, Jingchu University of Technology and Central 
China Normal University. Guoxin Tan (gxtan@mail.ccnu.edu.cn) is Professor, Central China 
Normal University. Chuanming Sun (cms@ccnu.edu.cn) is Assistant Professor, Central China 
Normal University. Panfeng Chen (94388389@qq.com) is PhD student, Guizhou University. 
© 2022. 

ABSTRACT 

Metadata has been analyzed and summarized. Based on Dublin Core metadata, combined with the 
characteristics and forms of intangible cultural heritage, this article explores the metadata for 
intangible cultural heritage in knowledge organizations based on relevant resource description 
standards. The Wuhan woodcarving ship model is presented as an example of national intangible 
cultural heritage to control the application of metadata in intangible cultural heritage knowledge 
organizations. New ideas are provided for the digital development of intangible cultural heritage. 

INTRODUCTION 

Intangible cultural heritage includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors 
and passed on to our descendants. Digital storage and presentation of intangible cultural heritage 
resources is an inevitable requirement for the protection of China’s long history and its culture in 
the information age. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and big data, all kinds o f 
massive data in the Internet age are expanding, necessitating the development of a database 
platform for the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage. At the same time, 
organizations must consider how to deal with the intangible cultural heritage using complex data. 
Searching for data and visualizing the relationship with intangible cultural heritage is a current 
research hotspot. However, at this stage, there are still some problems in the construction of 
digital resources of intangible cultural heritage in China, such as the establishment of accurate and 
interoperable metadata. In this process, the diversity and uniqueness of intangible cultural 
heritage items needs to be fully considered, including the subsequent integration of digital 
resources and its existing digital resource system of intangible cultural heritage in China. 
Therefore, the construction of the intangible cultural heritage resource database is not only to 
simply organize and list the data, but more importantly, to reveal the relationships between the 
knowledge content and resources in the intangible cultural heritage field and to build a thorough 
and relevant knowledge system. 

RESEARCH STATUS AT HOME AND ABROAD 

Metadata is data that describes the attributes of a certain type of resource (or object). Metadata 
can be used to locate and manage the resource and display information about it.1 Metadata can 
also be structured data used to describe online information resources and strengthen the 
collection development, organization, and utilization of online information resources.2 From the 
perspective of knowledge organization, general metadata is used to describe the theme, content, 
and characteristics of information resources. The most common metadata format is Dublin Core 

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(DC) metadata, which is structured and descriptive. The creation of metadata standards in the 
field of intangible cultural heritage must first combine the basic concepts and characteristics of 
cultural heritage to extract specific attributes and provide element definitions that describe the 
basic characteristics of intangible cultural heritage resources, that is, core metadata. This is not 
easy to achieve since intangible cultural heritage is traditional art, music, folklore, etc. Only by 
unifying intangible heritage resources of different expressions through metadata standards can a 
relatively standardized intangible cultural heritage resource library be formed. 

The Visual Resources Association of America (VRA) created the VRA Core metadata standard to 
describe art, architecture, prehistoric artifacts, folk culture, and other artistic visual resources in 
the network environment.3 In terms of intangible cultural heritage material, Lan Xuliu et al. 
proposed the VRA Core as the foundation format and added elements from the Categories for the 
Description of Works of Art (CDWA) as the extended element metadata format of digital cultural 
resources.4 A sculpture of Abraham Lincoln was used as the basis for the metadata format. The 
example explains the specific use method of the proposed metadata format in practice. The 
solution does not extend the core elements and there is an overall lack of flexibility as users 
cannot customize the required elements. B. Murtha proposed a descriptive metadata architecture 
in the field of art and architecture, including the core category of ontology ID, and added a 
controlled vocabulary and classification system in the field of art and architecture to enrich the 
specific metadata model.5 It is mainly based on the theoretical discussion of metadata standards in 
this field, and there is no specific practice, but its method of formulating metadata from the 
perspective of user retrieval effects is worth learning. Yi Junkai et al. proposed the core metadata 
specification for digital museums as the basis for expansion, implemented the relevant methods in 
the metadata expansion rules, and finally formed a special metadata specification. 6 This metadata 
specification system can guarantee the basic and personalized description of resources. 

The metadata specification was developed and completed by the National Museum of China. To 
keep this specification consistent with the metadata description of other metadata specifications 
at home and abroad, the description method refers to the ISO-11179 standard.7 The National 
Museum metadata specification contains seven element sets, 60 elements, and 342 restricted 
elements. The seven metadata element sets are: collection resource entity, data resource entity, 
responsible entity, business entity, transaction entity, relationship entity, and save entity. Each 
metadata element of the museum’s digital resources defines several elements according to the 
concept of hierarchical structure; each element is defined and described by a group of attributes, 
such as name, version, logo, definition, type, and value range. There are 11 attributes of necessity, 
repeatability, lower-level elements, application scope, and annotations. The establishment of the 
metadata standard framework for museum digital resources is based on the digitization of 
museum collection resources. Collection resources are the core of museum work, and the content 
of museum collection resources is the core component of digital resources.8 The digital resources 
of these collections are related to communication, transmission, storage, or business activities. 

Based on the characteristics of China’s existing intangible cultural heritage information resources, 
Li Bo proposed a compatible and interoperable metadata model. The description of intangible 
cultural heritage information resources was created on the basis of information structure and 
semantic component analysis.9 The ontological characteristics of each intangible cultural heritage 
information and related documents, characters, objects, spaces, and other entities are included in 
the construction of the intangible cultural heritage metadata model, which combines China’s non-
material cultural heritage. The actual situation of the tangible cultural heritage database has a 



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certain degree of international generality. Ye Peng compared the DC metadata standard system 
with the needs of China’s intangible cultural heritage protection, proposed a metadata standard 
based on intangible cultural heritage resources, and gave the scope of application. This metadata 
standard contains multiple core metadata, corresponding to the relevant elements in DC. 10 
However, Ye Peng also pointed out that a major problem with this intangible cultural heritage 
metadata standard is that it is not compatible with China’s existing intangible cultural heritage 
database, such as information storage, digital mining, file retrieval, and multimedia distribution. 

CONNOTATION AND DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF INTAGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE METADATA  

Connotation of intangible cultural heritage metadata 
The core metadata of this study will be designed based on the DC core metadata set, considering 
its versatility, scalability, easy conversion between metadata, interoperability between systems, 
and existing comparisons. Universal DC metadata is the most influential and widely used metadata 
standard in the field of information resource description under the network environment. Since 
the DC metadata standard is mainly aimed at the retrieval of network entity resources, it reveals 
common characteristics of digital entity resources but does not consider the cultural connotation 
and knowledge context of specific knowledge topics such as intangible cultural heritage.11 To 
reveal the originality of the object, the model proposed in this article will also combine the 
application and recording of China’s intangible cultural heritage items, reflecting the 
characteristics of specific intangible cultural heritage items, so as to facilitate compatibility and 
integration with existing information resources to form a unified interface standard with the 
existing intangible cultural heritage management system of the cultural sector, enabling the 
sharing of digital resources among cultural centers in different regions. 

Design principles of intangible cultural heritage metadata 
The design of the metadata model of intangible cultural heritage information resources should be 
fully compatible with popular metadata standards. Various metadata standards apply to different 
objects: DC is suitable for network resources, CDWA is suitable for artworks, and Federal 
Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is suitable for geographic space.  

When it comes to digital collections, the National Library of the Netherlands was one of the first 
institutions in the world to respond, starting in 1994 with the decision to collect digital 
publications and working with publishers and IT partners to make important contributions to 
digital collections research. The National Library of the Netherlands will develop a new global 
information network. The main approach of the system is to add DC data to all collected web 
pages. The new web page will require providers to add elements of the DC core set by themselves. 
Once submitted, the National Library of the Netherlands’ search engine will use these DC elements 
to assist in retrieval. In recent years, the art museum community has adopted several metadata 
standards such as CDWA and VRA Core to describe their collections of art works. Nam, Y. J. and 
Lee, S. M proposed a set of metadata elements customized to fit into the distinct context of small-
scaled art museums in South Korea.12 A small art museum in Korea combines the existing CDWA, 
VRA Core, and DC standards and the proposed set of metadata elements is expected to support 
artistic resources. The metadata design of intangible cultural heritage resources should refer to 
the design cases of the Netherlands and South Korea. When applying the existing metadata 
standards, it is beneficial to fully reveal the characteristics of the described objects and decide 
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The design of the metadata should connect with existing intangible cultural heritage information 
sources. At present, China should refer to the relevant standards of world intangible cultural 
heritage digital resources and establish a management system for intangible cultural heritage 
resources in line with the national, provincial, municipal and county levels. The relevant cultural 
management functional departments have also established relevant information systems to form a 
unified set of authoritative and standardized data. Therefore, in terms of the elements and 
concepts used in the metadata model, special attention should be paid to the connection with 
these existing data models, so that as new resources are developed, these rich information sources 
can be shared through the mapping relationship between the elements. 

The metadata model should have good scalability and strong descriptive ability containing more 
elements. Therefore, an element-rich metadata model has a strong influence on the organization 
and management of information resources and content disclosure. Data inspection should be 
flexible. Conversely, a metadata model with a lack of elements will be less flexible when 
technology is upgraded or user description requirements are expanded. A metadata model 
requires constant expansion and modification, and the practicality of the model will be greatly 
reduced. On the other hand, the design of the metadata model should have a mechanism that 
facilitates different types of users to expand elements according to different needs. 

The design of metadata can show the relationship between intangible cultural heritage resource 
entities. With the development of information resource description technology at home and 
abroad, a batch of metadata standards for various types of information resources have been 
formed. The metadata standards for China’s intangible cultural heritage should aim for 
compatibility and integrate existing world standards based on current results. The metadata 
should further be expanded and developed in accordance with preserving intangible cultural 
heritage works. The metadata standards for intangible cultural heritage archives should describe 
resources while displaying the greatest degree of versatility, compatibility, and standardization. 
Therefore, combining the requirements of cultural heritage archiving and the characteristics of 
intangible cultural heritage, the DC metadata standard is used as the basic standard, and the 
advantages of other metadata standards are combined to determine the metadata standard of 
China’s intangible cultural heritage archives. 

INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 

Definition of intangible cultural heritage metadata 
Through semantic analysis, the core attributes and concepts involved in metadata can be obtained, 
and the specificity of attributes and concepts can be improved through metadata standards, which 
can make users’ cognition, retrieval, and evaluation of information more accurate and effective. At 
the same time, the normative concepts and common attributes in existing metadata schemes 
should be quoted as much as possible. According to the attribute characteristics of the object, close 
and similar conceptual entities can be selected from one or more common metadata schemes, so 
that the element definition has versatility and standardization. For intangible cultural heritage, 
according to the attributes and characteristics of the object, close and similar conceptual entities 
are selected from one or more general metadata schemes to make the element definition universal 
and normative. In the “Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage," UNESCO 
pointed out that the types of intangible cultural heritage include oral traditions, performing arts, 
social practices, festivals, traditional handicrafts. Based on the above-mentioned definitions of 
intangible cultural heritage types and the previous comparative research results on metadata 



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standards of various countries, combined with the research results of scholars, the DC standard 
metadata name and standard affix library incorporates a set of intangible cultural heritage archive 
metadata containing 23 elements and extended elements (table 1). 

Table 1. Core metadata of intangible cultural heritage digital resources 

Category 
Standard 
metadata name 

Field name Annotation 

Content 
Title DC_Title 

Name and content of 
intangible cultural heritage 

category DC_category 
Bintroduction DC_Bintroduction 

Creator 

Mcreator DC_Creator_Own 

Creator identity 
information 

Nation DC_Creator_Nation 
Sex DC_Creator_Sex 
Age DC_Creator_Age 
area DC_Creator_area 
Biography DC_Creator_Biography 

Category 

Dance DC_Category_Dance 

Heritage list category 
Song DC_Category_Song 
literature DC_Category_literature 
Quyi DC_Category_Quyi 
Art DC_Category_Art 

Resources 

video DC_Category_video 
Resource type includes a 
description of resource 
content 

Picture DC_Resources_Picture 

Text DC_Resources_Text 
network DC_Resources_network 

Organization 

area DC_Organization_area 

Organization Information 

principal DC_Organization_principal 
OfficePhone DC_Organization_OfficePhone 
Jobtitle DC_Organization_Jobtitle 

Introduction DC_Organization_Introduction 

 

Intangible cultural heritage metadata standards unify the information format and mutual mapping 
relationship of intangible cultural heritage digital achievements. On the one hand, a single 
standard removes barriers to sharing metadata caused by having intangible cultural heritage 
information resources with different hardware, different platforms, and different formats. On the 
other, it enables the digital resources of intangible cultural heritage to be shared online. For 
example, the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Museum (https://www.ihchina.cn/) uses 
unified metadata to design this section, which solves the problem of integration and sharing of 
different resources. 

The smooth conversion between new and old data is beneficial to the protection of intangible 
cultural heritage inventory data, avoiding duplication of work, and improving the efficiency and 
effectiveness of intangible cultural heritage storage. In addition, design of intangible cultural 

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heritage metadata standards must consider the versatility, compatibility, and individualization of 
the metadata system. 

Description of digital resources of intangible cultural heritage 
Through the analysis of the intangible cultural heritage project objects, we can provide content, 
management, resources, etc. These attributes can correspond to the elements of the metadata 
during the metadata design or serve as the semantic basis for the definition of the elements. The 
analysis and extraction of the core attributes and concepts of the object should firs t consider the 
full presentation of the object knowledge and resource content, and the concept should have a 
certain degree of specificity so that users can recognize, retrieve, and evaluate the information. 
Secondly, it is important to refer to the normative concepts and general attributes in the existing 
metadata schemes as much as possible. According to the attribute characteristics of the object, 
select close and similar conceptual entities from one or more general metadata schemes, so that 
the element definition is versatile and standardized. Therefore, the content description of 
intangible cultural heritage items should reflect unique cultural meanings and characteristics. At 
present, there are only general concepts such as name, category, subject, and region among 
several general metadata schemes. Figure 1 shows the metadata framework of intangible cultural 
heritage. 

 

Figure 1. Metadata framework of intangible cultural heritage. 

In the content description, there are five elements which include names, types, subjects, regions, 
and protection levels as special attributes. In the metadata standard, the only elements that can be 
used in general are the name, subject, category, and region. The protection level means that the list 
of intangible cultural heritage is the object of national or provincial protection. The “National 



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Intangible Cultural Heritage Declaration Form” uses the five elements of content description, and 
then conducts resource description analysis based on the information organization structure of 
the intangible cultural heritage project object to construct intangible cultural heritage. Th e 
framework covers the main attributes and definitions involved in intangible cultural heritage 
objects, as well as their connections and hierarchical relationships. In the description framework, 
in addition to the attributes and definitions specified by the DC metadata, a set of custom elements 
is also set.14 Without changing the basic structure, users can customize elements according to 
standard needs to make the model extensible. 

In the description of related resources, entities related to intangible cultural heritage are divided 
into four categories: inheritors, object categories, resources, and organizations. Among them, the 
inheritor-related attributes include six general attributes such as name, ethnicity, gender, region, 
age, and person profile. Object category attributes include dance, song, art, literature, video, 
network, etc. For intuitive objects, you can refer to the use of artistic works to describe the 
category or the core category of visual materials, and the documentation and materials can use the 
metadata defined by DC. This model does not specify the use of attributes and concepts in 
metadata. In a specific metadata solution, these attributes and concepts can correspond to 
metadata element names, or they can be modifiers, values, or metadata element definition s, such 
as the inheritor of shadow puppetry is Lin Shimin. 

Data association 
Linked data is a technical specification recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). 
The relationship among linked data objects supports a greater degree of resource sharing and 
utilization, enabling users to efficiently and accurately locate needed resources on a larger scale. 
The release of linked data is to describe the metadata of cultural resources in the form of Resource 
Description Framework (RDF). After forming semantic associations, intelligent retrieval and data 
discovery services are provided on the intelligent application platform, so as to ensure the visual 
presentation and data sharing of intangible cultural heritage digital resources in knowledge 
organizations. Linked data publishing provides standardized data access specifications. The 
biggest advantage is that it can correlate data across platforms and establish links to different 
data, which is convenient for users to search for data in different repositories. 

As far as the content of intangible cultural heritage is concerned, linked data presents 
unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data on the Internet in the form of RDF. RDF 
description refers to the transformation of metadata in resources into RDF triples through data 
and relationship mapping, and the formation of W3C-supported documents through semantic 
relationship construction. Visual presentation refers to the visual presentation of relevant content 
by users through network search with the support of the network architecture. In essence, the 
release of digital resource data is to realize the RDF description and sharing of metadata for 
intangible cultural heritage metadata by multiplexing the relationship. Its essence is the 
management application process of the database. 

The linked data publishing process of intangible cultural heritage resources consists of three 
steps: (1) Converting the metadata of the repository into an RDF triple model and assigning a URI 
identifier to form an RDF document of linked data; (2) Establishing a semantic relationship and 
building relational links to form semantic associations; and (3) Mapping cultural resource data to 
the network through the URI access mechanism, and presenting data search results in a visual way 



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through user SPARQ queries. Although there are differences in the structure of different data 
publishing tools, metadata-based linked data publishing follows these basic steps. 

EXAMPLES OF METADATA APPLICATION OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE KNOWLEDGE 
ORGANIZATIONS 

Introduction to the Wuhan Wood Carving Ship Model intangible cultural heritage project 
The Wuhan Woodcarving Ship Model is a unique art variety in Chinese woodcarving 
craftsmanship, with a history of more than 2,000 years.15 According to the Song Dynasty’s The 
History of Jin Shi·Zhang Zhongyan: “the craftsman did not know how to build the ship. When the 
boat was built, the craftsmen did not know how to build it. The boat model made by Zhang 
Zhongyan. It was only a few inches long and was very delicate. The front and rear of the boat could 
be spliced well without glue. The other craftsmen were all amazed.” As early as the 12th century, 
there were people in China who could carve small boats several inches long as models for making 
ships. 

Hubei woodcarving boats are a national intangible cultural heritage project but the art and craft 
faces challenges. Like other intangible cultural heritage projects, development of the craftwork is 
weak. While younger generations in Hubei may recognize the form of wooden carving boat, few 
are willing to learn this art and more young people have not even heard of it. In order to better 
honor this long-standing tradition, this article focuses on the characteristics of intangible cultural 
heritage digital resources, combined with the relevant theories of knowledge organization, an d 
adopts certain technical standards to organize the knowledge organization and construction of the 
metadata standards for Hubei woodcarving ships. 

Knowledge organization construction based on metadata 
To effectively use metadata in intangible cultural heritage, metadata specifications must be 
defined and described. RDF is metadata specification description language. It can semantically pay 
attention to the attributes of the ontology and the interrelationships between these attributes. By 
using RDF information, it can be easily exchanged between computers using different types of 
operating systems and application languages.16 RDF regulates the realization of semantics in a 
standardized and interoperable way. The web page can implement the invocation of RDF in a 
simple way, thereby facilitating the retrieval of network data and the discovery of related 
knowledge. 

In this paper, the metadata system needs to use RDF to define the attributes, so that it can be 
better transformed into a language that the computer can understand. Intangible cultural heritage 
items have a certain relationship with inheritors, organizations, resource content, etc. In order to 
establish a complete intangible cultural heritage cultural resource database, these entities need to 
be described separately in RDF. 

Wuhan Woodcarving Ship Model metadata definition 
According to the RDF description, Wuhan Woodcarving Ship Model is used as a specific example to 
show the designed metadata scheme, that is, the relevant content of the example is filled into the 
defined resource description frame. For example, part of the RDF description of the Wuhan 
Woodcarving Ship Model intangible cultural heritage item can be found in the following code: 

  



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<?xml version = "1.0"?> 

<rdf:RDF 

 xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"  

 xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-syntax-schema#" 

 xmlns: heir ="http://hbinc.com/foaf/inc/1"> 

<rdf:Description rdf:about = "http://hbinc.com/foaf/inc/1/LongCongfa"> 

 <heir:Name > Long Congfa </heir:Name> 

 <heir:Gender>Men</heir:Gender> 

 <heir:Residence>Wuhan, Hubei</heir:Residence> 

 <heir:Occupation>Family-level intangible cultural heritage project-inheritor of Wuhan 

woodcarving ship model</heir:Occupation> 

</rdf:Description> 

</rdf:RDF> 

CONCLUSION 

This article reviews the classification system of China’s intangible cultural heritage items and the 
integration of existing knowledge organizations and other types of resources for designing a set of 
more comprehensive and reasonable metadata standards with a certain degree of scalability and 
it is applied to the actual intangible cultural heritage knowledge organization. To effectively 
protect and use the digital resources of intangible cultural heritage, further research is needed for 
this study. Additional discussion on updating and promoting existing metadata specifications as 
well as multidimensional aggregation of existing resources to achieve knowledge discovery is 
needed. Through the integration of linked data and sharing existing digital resources, this article 
can encourage scholarship and conversation that leads to the preservation of China’s intangible 
cultural heritage. 

FUNDING STATEMENT 

This work was supported by the Hubei Key Laboratory of Big Data in Science and Technology. This 
work was also supported by the Palace Museum’s open project in 2021, Research on the 
Dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Palace Museum from the Perspective of 
Artificial Intelligence. This subject has been funded by the Mercedes-Benz Star Wish Fund of China 
Youth Foundation. 

  



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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES  JUNE 2022 

RESEARCH ON KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE | QING, TAN, SUN, AND CHEN 11 

 

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	ABSTRACT
	Introduction
	Research status at home and abroad
	Connotation and Design Principles of Intagible Cultural Heritage Metadata
	Connotation of intangible cultural heritage metadata
	Design principles of intangible cultural heritage metadata

	Intangible Cultural Heritage Knowledge Organization
	Definition of intangible cultural heritage metadata
	Description of digital resources of intangible cultural heritage
	Data association

	Examples of Metadata Application of Intangible Cultural Heritage Knowledge Organizations
	Introduction to the Wuhan Wood Carving Ship Model intangible cultural heritage project
	Knowledge organization construction based on metadata
	Wuhan Woodcarving Ship Model metadata definition

	Conclusion
	Funding Statement
	Endnotes

