Using CIDOC-CRM to Model Hexi Regional Poetry

Regional poetry is an important part of Chinese intangible cultural heritage; a characteristic example is the poetry of the Hexi Corridor, an important historical region with a rich poetry tradition located in the modern western Gansu province of China. In this paper, we present our work on an ontology-based model for Hexi regional poetry that captures historical and cultural information including poetic imageries and allusions, based on CIDOC-CRM and other standard Semantic Web ontologies. Our work lays the foundation for transforming digitised poetry into a knowledge graph and facilitating the research of the history and culture of the Hexi region.