Research on a Fashion Knowledge Management Platform for Women Garment Development

Knowledge platform can not provide a better design resolution than qualified designers. But it would be a very useful tool for those less experienced designers who works for small or medium size enterprises that have plenty of past design records. This paper recommends a women garment design knowledge management platform which covers four main research fields concerning garment designs: the shape/style design, pattern design, sewing and post processing, and business. Data clustering is adopted to classify those design samples that are difficult to be categorize to certain classical garment style. Knowledge model is based on ontology theory and RDF is used. Future works would mainly be life-cycle based data mining routines and knowledge reusage problems so that the design knowledge may be much more ´active´ and needs less human interaction.