DrDC (Game) Ontologies for the Semantic Web


For DrDC (Game) Ontologies we currently use Protégé, OWL-DL, and RACER. Our primary scholarly resource is the Description Logic Handbook. Our primary concern is to find a way in which to build ontologies which are DrDC game specific.

EXAMPLE: Bulgarian Cuisine

Let us imagine that we are designing a DrDC game for the purpose of discovering the cuisine of the Other? For example, suppose that there are some special dishes associated with Ohrid, Macedonia. We want to be able to identify these and build them into the "City of Light" game which is due for release next week (16 August 2005). Then participants at the First SEEDI Conference will be able to experience a certain Physicality of Soul related to the cuisine.

Professor Alexander Kiossev, Cultural Studies at the Department of Philosophy, University of Sofia, has already remarked on the use of a "cuisine" to facilitate "diverse" Cutlures to recognise "mutual affinities":

"Everyone who has lived for a while in different Balkan countries finds the similarities among their everyday cultures to be rather evident. Every Bulgarian, Greek or Serb who has longer been somewhere in Europe knows that if he/she gets a craving after a dear old “manja”, they better go to a Greek restaurant or buy something from a Turkish shop. The Bulgarian will have his meals in the Greek restaurant under unknown names – tatsiki, suvlaki, giros – but they will have a familiar taste so much like tarator and shish-kebab whilst the sarmi and the musaka have a good chance to be just like my mom’s sarmi and musaka. The Turkish shop will offer white brine cheese, vine leaves, khalva, kashkaval and boza as well as the cherished gherkins – real sour unlike the sterilised insipidness they sell in German, French or Czech supermarkets. The kebabcheta (kevavchichi in Serbia, pleskavitsa in Macedonia) are obviously a common Balkan phenomenon just as the sturdy grape brandy and the shopska salad let alone the emblematic spices like mint, savoury, basil, etc. giving the overall profile of the Balkan taste. The experts claim the Balkan cuisine is a common heritage absorbed as Arab or Turkish versions of the Persian cuisine. It has its natural borders – somewhere round Zagreb it clashes with the mid-European front of the Austro-Hungarian chocolate cakes, sugary salads and milky pottages, while to the South, at Rieka – with the Dalmatian/Mediterranean cuisine of fritti di mare, pizzas and spaghetti. What matters here is that the area thus outlined hardly coincides with any state borders in the region. It emphasises a hazy commonality of taste and culinary style criss-crossed by the multilingual patchwork of the meals’ names."

Source: "HEROES AGAINST SWEETS. The Split of National and "Anthropological" cultures in South - East Europe"
Published at: http://www.scca.org.mk/utb/utb2000/syn_alex.htm


Posted: Sat - August 13, 2005 at 02:34 p.m.          

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