Abstract: In the process of current traditional national costume metadata digital collection, there is no uniform standard and specification, and the collected metadata does not carry on the deep excavation of cultural connotation. Firstly, based on the international common DC metadata, the basic elements of digital collection of traditional national costume are extracted. Then the basic elements of the traditional national costume culture are deeply excavated and expanded. At the same time, a contrastive mapping with clothing, embroidery and textile picture metadata is made, and a set of cultural ontology, connotation mining, and the excavation of the connotation are constructed. The metadata of multi-layer and extensible national costumes is described in digital color. Finally, with the bat pattern batik back fan as an example, the annotation process of digital collection metadata of traditional national costume is illustrated. Through the RDF/XML metadata annotation and SparQL query metadata simulation, the paper implements a set of more operational specifications on  the digital collection of traditional national costumes.

Key words: national costume, digitalization, metadata, RDF/XML, SparQL