Multilingual Knowledge Organization of Cultural Routes: The Case of the Grand Canal

ABSTRACT This study collects heterogeneous information from multiple sources related to the Grand Canal, a cultural route in China, to construct a multilingual ontology of the Grand Canal. The research designs a data translation, optimization, and multilingual ontology construction method to reveal the internal and external characteristics and associations of the Grand Canal, which can provide users with multilingual and ordered knowledge of the cultural route, providing a feasible solution for digital preservation and global sharing of the cultural routes. On this basis, a multilingual knowledge service system is built.