A Design of an Ontology for Animation Scripts Writing Towards the Learning of Necessary Elements and Relationship Among Them
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/jiskku.2023.4Keywords:
Ontology, Scripts writing, Animation script elements, Learning supporting toolAbstract
Purpose: This research aims to develop an ontology for the interoperable basic knowledge of essential elements in animation script according to story-telling theory in a form of an ontology. The ontology is for helping the students to realize and clearly map their thought to the predefined schema towards the completion and reasonable of idea and design.
Methodology: The knowledge of script writing theory is extracted and represented as ontological concepts. The concepts involve story structure of the scripts including characters and their relationship, events with the cause and effect, and overall themes and settings. The instances are then generated into a knowledge graph of the script to represent the core story and its elements. Furthermore, SPARQL can be applied to the instances to query them logically based on the designed ontology schema. The ontology is evaluated by 3 ontology experts and 3 animation script experts. For the test, we asked 4 instructors to make queries for testing the potential of the application. There were 16 items to test searching performance of application. The data comes from student animation scripts that were collected as samples for 350 search chapters.
Findings: This research findings ontology as a schema for animation script design. The ontology captures the elements necessary for many aspects of story design, including character details in terms of setting and relationship Events based on the play of the script to link the story in the desired direction and overall settings. Based on expert evaluation results, conciseness, and accuracy obtained the highest assessment for 4.67 and 4.5. Overall, the evaluation is good results.
Applications of this study: The ontology is applicable as a knowledge base for a script writing supporting tool to help to learn animation script writing. The tool helps students to be aware of their idea as elements are segmented into concepts of different categories for clarification. Furthermore, the instances following the ontology schema can be semantically queried for statistical study including the trend of story style, the trend of the genre, and similarity checking of the script content at the abstract level.
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