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31 July 2023

An Ontological Model for the Representation of Vallenato as Cultural Heritage in a Context-Aware System

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Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia
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Department of System, Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
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Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico
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Heritage2023, 6(8), 5648-5671;https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6080297
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Abstract

The traditional Colombian vallenato was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO on 1 December 2015 with urgency for it to be safeguarded, which led the government of Colombia in the head of the Ministry of Culture and the vallenato music cluster to develop a safeguarding plan that contains different activities, among which stands out a platform for the management of vallenato through educational processes. In this sense, this document proposes an ontological model for the representation of vallenato as cultural heritage in a context-aware system called Vallenatic. The ontology was developed using the NeOn methodology, designed in the Protégé software, and has 15 concepts (Vallenata Songs, Artist, Devices, Persons, Environment, Cultural Managers, Interface, Location, MOOC, Learning Object, Profile, Preference, Net, Time Cultural, Event, Cultural_Sites). The model was evaluated by means of nine (9) situations described in natural language and SWRL; this language was used since it allows expressing OWL concepts in combination with RuleML. The proposed model can be used for other musical genres that have the recognition of cultural and intangible heritage, such as the Spanish flamenco, Argentine Tango, Mexican Mariachi music, Peruvian scissors dance, Brazilian capoeira, Dominican bachata, Jamaican reggae, among others.

1. Introduction

In the Republic of Colombia, the Caribbean region, made up mainly of the departments of Cesar, La Guajira, and Magdalena, has a cultural richness that characterizes it, its gastronomy [1], their different oral traditions [2], and its musical genres, and it gives this area of the country a distinction that identifies it both nationally and internationally. Part of this seal is configured by the so-called vallenata culture, a symbiosis of traditions of the indigenous people, black Africans, and Spaniards that converged in the land of Magdalena Grande and who were accompanied with instruments, narrating their daily experiences and giving birth to the traditional vallenata music, which has been considered a reference in the forging of the cultural identity of the Colombian Caribbean [3] to such an extent that the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez says that it was precisely the artistic and literary richness of the vallenato songs he heard in his native Aracataca that inspired him to tell stories through his writings.
This has been the representative music of Colombia, which is defined by Consuelo Araujo Noguera [4] as “the chronicle, made music, of a whole people. They are events narrated in the compositions, which may well have been performed by a specific person, but which are in themselves the reflection of a thousand other events, identically the same, which occurred to so many other people”.
Despite all the cultural richness that endows the vallenato, its folkloric and literary essence has been threatened by the fusions to which it has been exposed, to the commercialization of its lyrics that threatens the costumeries chronicle that characterizes this musical genre, for which measures must be taken to preserve its tradition, such as the one adopted by the Government of the Department of Cesar and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, which, on 1 December 2015, led UNESCO to declare vallenato as “Cultural and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” that urgently needs to be safeguarded [5].
Different vallenato composers, such as Rosendo Romero [6], establish that one of the best ways to safeguard vallenato is through education. It is important to disseminate in the new generations the cultural heritage inherent to vallenato, executing different strategies in schools, such as teaching the use of the accordion, promoting the learning of the traditional roots of the Colombian Caribbean region, providing spaces where the poetic content of classic vallenato songs is analyzed and understood, teaching the differentiation of the musical genres of vallenato (puya, paseo, merengue, and son), in which they build their own lyrics and validate the compositions from the approach of the chronicle and narrative of this type of music.
Romero’s proposal was accepted by the government of the department of Cesar and the municipality of Valledupar—Colombia, (considered the world capital of vallenato), where education and the use of the different means of dissemination offered by technology are established as one of the possible ways to safeguard traditional vallenato music by applying current strategies that are attractive to children, adolescents, and young people, thus ensuring that the customs and traditions surrounding this musical genre are preserved and disseminated over the years.
Various technological tools are used for the protection of cultural heritage worldwide; UNESCO itself on its website has an inventory of all the assets that enjoy the distinction of intangible cultural heritage, allowing its consultation and the dissemination of the various activities aimed at safeguarding it.
When reviewing the inventory, it is observed that the Colombian vallenato does not currently have any technological tool designed for this purpose; even though the message given by UNESCO is of “urgency”, technology has not yet been used to safeguard the representative music of the northern coast of Colombia.
This paper presents a proposal for a MOOC-based contextual awareness ontology for the management of traditional Colombian vallenato. A context-based ontological model for the preservation of vallenato as cultural heritage is one that allows the interaction of users with elements of the context such as: the devices, the composers, the users, the physical environment, the different cultural managers, the instructors or historians, the interface, the location, the MOOCs as a strategy for the teaching of vallenato and the artists.
The context is modeled through the semantic representation of an ontology. The ontological representation defines the properties and relations and instances that are subsequently consumed by the context-aware system, which are processed by a reasoner using previously defined rules. By means of the automatic acquisition of the context modeled by an ontology and the definition of inference rules, an intelligent system is created, which is capable of interacting with the environment and offering a variety of options for the vallenata culture to the different users and their profiles that are an intrinsic part of the context.
This proposed model can be adapted to other musical genres that also enjoy recognition as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity status, such as the Spanish flamenco, Argentine Tango, Mexican Mariachi music, Peruvian scissors dance, Brazilian capoeira, Dominican bachata, Jamaican reggae, among others.

3. Ontology Model

3.1. Selected Methodology

One of the main steps to model ontologies was to select an appropriate methodology; in this sense, there were many proposals as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Methodologies for modeling web ontologies.
To model the proposed ontology, the NeOn methodology [25] applied in [26] was selected. Unlike the other ontology construction models, the NeOn methodology arises from the need to fill the gaps that could not be filled by the three most known models up to that moment, such as the concept of network de ontology and the dimension of collaboration, context, and dynamism [26].
This methodology is based on addressing different scenarios or paths for the construction of ontology and ontology networks. These scenarios are flexible and can be combined with each other, which makes it a methodology that adapts to the needs and different requirements of specific users.
The scenarios are as follows:
  • Scenario 1. Development of ontology networks from specification to implementation;
  • Scenario 2. Development of ontology networks through reuse and reengineering of non-ontology resources;
  • Scenario 3. Development of ontology networks by reusing ontology resources;
  • Scenario 4. Development of ontology networks through reuse and reengineering of ontology resources;
  • Scenario 5. Development of ontology networks by reusing and mixing ontology resources;
  • Scenario 6. Development of ontology networks through reuse, mixing and reengineering of ontology resources;
  • Scenario 7. Development of ontology networks by reusing ontology design patterns;
  • Scenario 8. Development of ontology networks by restructuring ontology resources;
  • Scenario 9. Development of ontology networks by localization of ontology resources.
In this case, scenario 1 was taken, following the methodology established by [26] where it was recommended to follow the tasks presented in Table 1.

3.2. Specification of Requirements

The NeOn methodology established an order for the specification of requirements in addition to providing a methodological guide to achieve this activity. The guide established specific tasks summarized by [26] summarizes as shown in Table 2:
Table 2. Tasks for requirements specification according to NeOn methodology based on [25].
  • Task 1: Identification of the purpose, scope, and implementation language of the ontology:
  • Purpose
The objective of the ontology network was to represent the concepts and the types of contexts that influenced the concepts to adapt their behavior to an adaptive application to promote the vallenata cultural identity with respect to the situation that the user activates.
  • Scope
    • The Ontology comprised the following concepts:
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      Artists (Composers, Musicians);
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      Cultural Event;
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      Cultural Managers (Managers, Historians, Researchers, Event organizers);
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      Cultural_Site;
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      Devices;
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      Environment;
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      Interface;
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      Learning Object;
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      Localization;
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      MOOC;
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      Persons (Instructors, Student, Tourist);
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      Preference;
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      Profile;
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      Red;
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      Time;
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      Vallenata Songs.
  • Implementation language
The ontology was modeled using the Protégé Software in the OWL language.
  • Task 2: Identification of the intended end users.
During the initial phase of the project, the following intended users were established (see Table 3):
Table 3. Expected Users.
  • Task 3: Identification of intended uses
  • Store and edit information about users (Students, tourists, musicians, Instructors, other users);
  • Store and edit information about the context of users;
  • Store and edit information about MOOCs;
  • Store and edit information about the devices that users can access;
  • Store and edit users’ network information;
  • Store and edit location information;
  • Store and edit information about weather;
  • Store and edit information about the users’ environment (Artists, Persons, Cultural Managers);
  • Store and edit user interface information;
  • Store and edit information about vallenato related cultural events;
  • Store and edit information about user preferences, profiles, and user roles;
  • Store and edit information about vallenato songs.
  • Task 4: Identification of requirements.
  • Non-functional requirements
For the selection of the non-functional requirements, a review of different ontologies with similar purposes that were already designed was established; thus, to establish which requirements of this type were the most used in this sense, the non-functional requirements were the following:
  • The ontology network must be Modular;
  • The ontology network must be in English.
  • Functional requirements
To determine the functional requirements for applying the NeOn methodology, competency questions were asked, and five (5) experts were used to divide the sub-concepts of the ontology.
  • Task 5: Grouping of the functional requirements
In this case, since the functional requirements were defined by concepts and sub-concepts, it was not necessary to group them.
  • Task 6: Validation of the set of requirements
Both functional and non-functional requirements were reviewed and validated by the ontology development group.
  • Task 7: Prioritization of the set of requirements
For the non-functional requirements, it was decided to give the same level of priority to both requirements:
Priority 1:
  • The ontology network must be Modular;
  • The ontology network must be in English.
The following level of priority was established for the functional requirements:
Priority 1:
Environment, Location, Preferences/Profile/Role, vallenata songs, Cultural Event, Artist, Cultural Managers, Persons, MOOC, Cultural Site, and Learning Object;
Priority 2:
Time;
Priority 3:
Device;
Priority 4:
Interface and Network.
  • Task 8: Extraction of terminology and its frequency.
The extraction of terms and their frequency was done using a syntactic annotator, and then, the terms were extracted in a Word document and organized in a graphical presentation (Word Cloud) using an online tool (https://classic.wordclouds.com/). As an example, the word cloud of the concept of vallenato songs were added.
As can be seen in Figure 1, the words with the highest frequencies were those related to the genres of vallenato songs (merengue, son, paseo, and puya) followed by singers, inspiration, lyrics, nature, among others.
Figure 1. Word Cloud Vallenato Songs.
This terminology was useful to get an idea of what the most important terms of the ontology being developed were as well as to obtain a set of terms from which to search for resources, both ontological and non-ontological, that could be reused during ontology development [26].

3.3. Graphic Design of the Ontology

The ontology designed had 15 concepts and their respective relationships, which can be seen in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Ontological Model.
The ontological network of the proposed system was constituted by classes that identify the dimensions of the context for the management of vallenato as national heritage. The following is a brief description:
  • Vallenatas Songs: Describes the information of the vallenato compositions, such as lyrics, genre (merengue, paseo, puya, and son), duration;
  • Artists: Describes the information of the composers and musicians related to vallenato, such as their personal information and relates the songs composed (composers) and performed (musicians);
  • Devices: Describes the devices, both software and hardware, in context;
  • Environment: Describes information about the environment of people, artists, and cultural managers;
  • People: Describes the information of the people involved in the context, such as students (those enrolled in the MOOCs), instructors (those who teach using the platform, those who make use of the MOOCs), and tourists (describes the visitors from anywhere in the world who attend the vallenato events);
  • Cultural Event: Describes the information of the events related to the vallenato, these events can be festivals, concerts, talks, private parties, among others;
  • Cultural Managers: Describes the information of the people who promote Colombian vallenato from different fronts (event organizers, artists’ representatives, historians, and researchers);
  • Interface: Describes the interface of the MOOCs and the learning objects inspired by the vallenato culture;
  • Location: Describes the location of the context of all the elements that make up the model;
  • MOOC: Describes the information of the massive open online courses to teach about vallenata culture that can be developed in the context;
  • Learning Object: Describes the different learning objects based on vallenata culture used in the context;
  • Profile: Describes the profile of the actors (people, artists, cultural managers) involved in the process;
  • Preference: Describes the preferences of the actors (people, artists, cultural managers) involved in the process;
  • Network: Describes the characteristics of the network connectivity of the devices owned by the actors (people, artists, cultural managers) involved in the process;
  • Cultural sites: Describes the cultural sites related to vallenato;
  • Time: Describes the notion of time in the context of vallenato.

4. Ontology in Protégé

As specified above, for the ontology modeling, we used the application Protégé (https://protege.stanford.edu/, accessed on 3 February 2023), developed at Stanford University. Protégé is a free open-source platform that provides a set of tools for building domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies, which has been widely used in different projects [8,12,27,28,29].
The version of Protégé used was 5.6.1, downloaded directly from the site https://protege.stanford.edu/products.phpthe (accessed on 3 February 2023). The downloadable version was chosen because it allows for designing and/or modifying more than one ontology using the same interface that can be customized. In addition, it has very good support.
After the application configuration process, the classes were created as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Class and subclass. Obtained from Protégé software, version 5.6.1.
Once the 15 classes that made up the ontology and their respective subclasses were created, we proceeded to create the object properties, data properties, and individuals by class. See Figure 4.
Figure 4. Object Property and Data Property. Obtained from Protégé software.
The object properties defined the relationships between the classes and subclasses of the model; the data properties corresponded to the instances of the ontology.
The relationships with their concepts and ranges are presented in Table 4.
Table 4. Ontology Relationships.
Using the Ontograf tab, Figure 5 shows the ontology with its respective relationships; each of the dotted lines of different colors represents the relationships between the concepts of the ontology.
Figure 5. Ontology in Protégé. Obtained from Protégé software.

5. Situations or Behavior for a Vallenato Management Environment Supported by Contextual Awareness

The situations or behaviors are described below:
  • A student of X age enrolls in a massive open, online course;
  • Vallenata music artist A performs at a cultural event EC;
  • Vallenata music composer C writes song V, which is performed at the CE event;
  • The researcher designs a Massive Open Online Course inspired by the vallenata culture;
  • Student A is enrolled in Massive Course 1 that was designed by a researcher, inspired by vallenata songs and contains a learning object 1;
  • Student A receives a notification of enrollment in the Massive Open and Online Course;
  • A Massive Open Online Course is inspired by one or more vallenato songs;
  • The student has a learning object associated with his/her Massive Open Online Course;
  • Instructor B designs a learning object inspired by a vallenata song composed by a composer C and performed by a musician M and inserts it in the Massive Open Online Course 1;
  • Tourist 1 attends the cultural event 1 where a vallenata music composer C and a musician M perform;
  • The system helps the tourist with the information of the vallenato musicians of his preference;
  • The system helps the students to choose the mass course of their preference taking into account the vallenato songs they listen to;
  • The system helps the tourist to locate the cultural event related to vallenato where the artists of his preference are performing;
  • The Event Organizer organizes an event related to vallenato that can be a festival, conversation, parranda, concert, among others;
  • The Manager represents the vallenato artists that are hired to perform at cultural events;
  • Students connect through their device to the Massive Open Online Course they are enrolled in;
  • Students solve the activities contained in the learning object of the Massive Open Online Course from their device;
  • People research about vallenato from their devices by reading NFC tags, QR codes located in different places of the Cultural Museum of Vallenato Music;
  • Composers show their unpublished songs from their devices;
  • People located in a U location review the location of cultural events related to vallenato;
  • Students connect via their device to the Massive Open Online Course they are enrolled in; the contents are adjusted to the network characteristics of the device.

6. Ontology Evaluation by Means of SWRL Rules

To evaluate the correct functioning of the ontology, some rules are established. This section shows nine situations or behaviors described in Section 5 are taken. The description includes each rule in its natural language and the SWRL, which was used because it allows expressing the OWL concepts in combination with RuleML [30].
In addition, a scenario of the situation posed is presented.
Situation 1. Student A receives notification of enrollment in the Massive Open Online Course.
Rule 1. We would like to list the students that are part of MOOC number 4.
MOOC(?mooc), Has_Enrrolled (MOOC004, ?std), Student(?std) -> Notify(?std)
Figure 6 shows the results obtained from the situation presented, where the three notified students that are part of MOOC004 can be visualized.
Figure 6. Diagram Situation 1.
As can be seen in Figure 7, students Std0002, Std0006, and Std0010 are enrolled in MOOC004.
Figure 7. Result Rule 1. Obtained from Protégé software.
Situation 2. A student of age X enrolls in a massive open online course.
Figure 8 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 8. Diagram Situation 2.
Rule 2: List the students who are enrolled in the MOOC004 over 14 years of age.
MOOC(?mooc), Is_Enrrolled(?std, MOOC004), Student(?std), Age(?std, ?xage), greaterThan(?xage, 14) -> Notify(?std)
The result is shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9. Result Rule 2. Obtained from Protégé software.
The Std0006 and Std0010 comply with Rule 2, are enrolled in MOOC0004, and are over 14 years of age.
Situation 3. Vallenata music artist A performs at an EC cultural event.
Figure 10 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 10. Diagram Situation 3.
Rule 3. List the vallenato artists performing at the Event0004 Cultural Event.
Artists (?art), Cultural_Event(?event), Has_presented (?art, Event0004) -> Notify(?art)
The result is shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11. Result Rule 3. Obtained from Protégé software.
Figure 11 shows that the musician Music0001 and comp0002 are part of the presentations of the cultural event Event0004.
Situation 4. Tourist 1 attends cultural event 1 where a vallenata music composer C and a musician M perform.
Figure 12 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 12. Diagram Situation 4.
Rule 4. Notify tourists and artists performing at the Event0003 Cultural Event.
Tourist (?tou), Cultural_Event(?event), Attend (?tou, Event0003), Artists (?art), Cultural_Event(?event), Has_presented (?art, Event0003) -> Notify(?tou), Notify (?art)
Figure 13 shows that Tourist Tourist0004 attends Event Event0003 where composer comp0001 and musician Music0002 perform.
Figure 13. Result Rule 4. Obtained from Protégé software.
Situation 5. Student A is enrolled in Massive Course 1, which was designed by a researcher, inspired by vallenata songs, and contains a learning object 1.
Figure 14 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 14. Diagram Situation 5.
Rule 5. List the students enrolled in MOOC004, the researcher who designed it, and the vallenato songs that inspired it.
Vallenata_Songs(?vsng), MOOC(?mooc), Has_inspired (?vsng, MOOC004), MOOC(?mooc), Has_Enrrolled (MOOC004, ?std), Student(?std), Researchers (?res), MOOC(?mooc), Designs (?res, MOOC004), MOOC(?mooc), Learning_Object(?lob), It\\’s_content (?lob, MOOC004) -> Notify (?vsng), Notify(?std), Notify(?res), Notify(?lob)
Figure 15 shows that students Std0002, Std0006, and Std0010 are enrolled in MOOC004, which was designed by the researcher Rese0004, who was inspired by the vallenato songs Sng0005, Sng0010, Sng0011, and Sng0012, which contains the Learning Object Object0004.
Figure 15. Result Rule 5. Obtained from Protégé software.
Situation 6. The Manager represents the vallenato artists who are hired to perform at cultural events and interpret vallenato songs.
Figure 16 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 16. Diagram Situation 6.
Rule 6. List the representative of the musician Music0001, which establish the events where he performs and the songs he performs.
Managers(?man), Musicians(?music), Represented_by (Music0001, ?man), Musicians(?music), Cultural_Event(?event), Has_presented (Music0001, ?event), Musicians(?music), Vallenata_Songs(?vsng), Performed (Music0001, ?vsng), -> Notify (?vsng), Notify(?man), Notify(?event)
Figure 17 shows that Music Music0001 is represented by the representative Mang0002, he performs in the events Event0004 and Event0006 and interprets the vallenato songs Sng0004 and Sng0006.
Figure 17. Result Rule 6. Obtained from Protégé software.
Situation 7: People located in a U location review the location of cultural events related to vallenato.
Figure 18 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 18. Diagram Situation 7.
Rule 7: Tourists in a LOC0001 Location review the location of cultural events in the same location.
Tourist(?tou), Cultural_Event(?event), Location(?loc), Has_Located(LOC0001, ?tou), Has_Located(LOC0001, ?event) -> Notify(?event), Notify(?tou)
As can be seen in Figure 19, tourists Tourist0008 and Tourist00012 who are at Location LOC0001 look for event information at their same location, which are Event0001 and Event0012.
Figure 19. Result Rule 7. Obtained from Protégé software.
Situation 8: Students connect through their device to the Massive Open Online Course they are enrolled in; the contents are adjusted to the characteristics of the device’s network.
Figure 20 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 20. Diagram Situation 8.
Rule 8: Students enrolled in MOOC0004 connect to the course from their devices and are given the network access the two types of course content (Light or Robust)
MOOC(?mooc), Has_Enrrolled (MOOC004, ?std), Student(?std), Student(?std), Devices(?dev), Through (?dev, ?std), Devices(?dev), Net(?net), Connected_A (?dev, ?net), Net(?net), Type_of_content (?toc), Access_content (?net, ?toc) -> Notify(?std), Notify (?dev), Notify(?net), Notify (?toc)
As seen in Figure 21, the notified students accessing MOOC0004 are: Std0002, Std0006, and Std0010, which use Devices Dev0001, Dev0003, and Dev0005, which connect to the network and adjust the contents considering the network that the devices have.
Figure 21. Result Rule 8. Obtained from Protégé software.
Situation 9. People research about vallenato from their devices by reading NFC tags, QR code located in different places of the Cultural Museum of Vallenato Music.
Figure 22 shows the diagram of the situation presented.
Figure 22. Diagram Situation 9.
Rule 9: A tourist/student visiting the cultural site Site0001 (Cultural Museum of vallenato music) has a device that allows him to research about vallenato since his device has NFC tags or QR code accessing a MOOC on the platform.
MOOC(?moocnfc_QRcode), Student(?std), Has_Enrrolled(?moocnfc_QRcode, ?std), Tourist(?tou), Cultural_Site(?site), Visited(Site0001, ?tou), Student(?std), Cultural_Site(?site), Visited(Site0001, ?std), Tourist(?tou), Devices(?devnfc_QRcode), Through(?devnfc_QRcode, ?tou), Student(?std), Devices(?devnfc_QRcode), Through (?devnfc_QRcode, ?std) -> Notify(?std), Notify(?tou), Notify(?moocnfc_QRcode), Notify(?devnfc_QRcode)
Figure 23 shows the result of the rule after using the Pellet reasoner.
Figure 23. Result Rule 9. Obtained from Protégé software.
As shown in Figure 23, students Std0002 and Std0003 and Tourist Tourist0008 visit the cultural site Site0001 (Cultural Museum of Vallenata Music) and access information using their device by reading, which connect to the network and adjust the contents considering the network that the devices have.

7. Comparison of the Proposed Ontology Model with Other Ontologies

Considering that the modeling of ontologies has been widely studied, there is a wide range of ontologies with different purposes, but there is none like the one presented in this research; even so, a comparison is made with other ontology models designed for cultural heritage management.
The criteria used for the comparison of the classes in each context model are the following:
  • Explicit definition of the class in the context model (✓);
  • Explicit definition of the class by means of subclasses in the context model (✓/);
  • Partial definition of the class through a single class or subclass contained in the model (P);
  • Partial definition of the class through different classes or subclasses contained in the model (P/);
  • Class not explicitly or partially defined (X).
Table 5 shows the comparison of the proposed ontology model “Vallenatic” with other ontologies for cultural heritage.
Table 5. Comparison of the proposed ontology model with other ontologies.
As can be seen in Table 4, the systematic literature review did not find a model that contemplates the protection of musical cultural heritage mediated by educational processes as proposed in this research.

8. Conclusions

This document contains the ontological model proposed for the preservation of Colombian vallenato as intangible cultural heritage of humanity through educational processes with the implementation of massive open online courses (MOOC).
For the development of the ontological model the NeOn methodology was selected, taking as a reference the scenario I, the elements of the context that compose the ontology are the following: Artists, Device, People, Environment, Cultural Managers, Interface, Location, MOOC, Learning Object, Profile, Preference, Network, Time, Cultural Event, Vallenato Songs.
The relationships and each of the concepts that compose the ontological network are described as well as its implementation in the Protégé Software version 5.6.1.
The model was validated through the implementation of rules using the Protégé pellet reasoner, where it can be observed that the model works.
This model was compared with other models to establish similarities and differences, and it was possible to establish that there is no model equal to the one proposed, although there are some that share components (see Table 5).

9. Future Works

At the end of this document, recommendations for future research are made. The first one is to continue with the evaluation of the ontology model by implementing the other rules that were not contemplated in this document.
The second recommendation is focused on continuing with the development of the architecture that will consume the proposed ontology.
The third recommendation is to make use of the proposed model for other musical genres that, like vallenato, are recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage of humanity, such as Spanish flamenco, Argentine Tango, Mexican Mariachi music, Peruvian scissors dance, Brazilian capoeira, Dominican bachata, Jamaican reggae, among others.

Author Contributions

Introduction, M.A.D.-M.; Related Works, E.D.-L.-H.-F. and R.R.-V.; validation, M.A.D.-M.; Ontological Model, M.A.D.-M. and J.E.G.G.; Ontology evaluation, M.A.D.-M., R.R.-V., E.D.-L.-H.-F. and J.E.G.G.; ontology in Protégé, M.A.D.-M.; data curation, M.A.D.-M. and E.D.-L.-H.-F.; writing—original draft preparation, E.D.-L.-H.-F.; writing—review and editing, J.E.G.G. and M.A.D.-M.; visualization, M.A.D.-M.; supervision, E.D.-L.-H.-F. and R.R.-V.; project administration, E.D.-L.-H.-F. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Colombia through the Bicentenary Scholarship program in its first cohort. The authors did not receive support from any organization for the submitted work. No funding was received to assist with the preparation of this manuscript. No funding was received for conducting this study. No funds, grants, or other support was received.

Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Colombia and the Universidad de la Costa CUC through the bicentennial scholarship program in its first cohort.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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