Yorùbá Culture is at the risk of going into annihilation as its rich culture and custom are being lost due to inadequate knowledge preservation measures to safeguarding its learning, teaching and practice. Folktale is the commonest method used in transferring knowledge and information from one generation to another generation. However, this is not possible and reliable as vital information and data would be lost in the face of current globalisation and enculturation. This study was carried out in order to protect Yorùbá Cultural heritage with a focus on Yorùbá Naming practice. In order to safeguard and protect the knowledge contained in the cultural heritage from being endangered, the need to develop a knowledge management system for Yorùbá Naming is required. Data on Yorùbá names were obtained from documented text and knowledge about the naming convention was elicited from domain and ontology experts using a combined method of observation and consultations. Moreover, Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) method was used in building the binary relations, which was used in the computational design of the Yorùbá artefact. The design was implemented and validated using an Ontology Web Language (OWL) tool called Protégé. The ontology model represents the documentation of the elicited knowledge of the YCH domain. Finally, the formal digital artefact resulting from the analysis and design of an ontology model or framework serves as a useful software artefact for formalising the concept of naming in Yorùbá culture. This research is very vital (indispensable) so as to preserve the rich culture of learning names, which can be extended to different societies and clans.
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