Virtual Campfire –Digital Media Discourses between Cultures, Continents and GenerationsJapanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, September 11, 2009Ralf KlammaInformatik 5RWTH Aachen

Agenda

Media Discourses – New ChallengesReconstruction? How?Media is witness for cultural heritage preservationHeterogeneous communitiesMedia as research discourses and archiveKnowledge may get lost, if no community/individual is telling stories any moreHow to preserveknowledge?How to bridge intergenerational, intercultural gaps?How to use information technologies to preserve knowledge?

Media is witness for cultural heritage preservation

Heterogeneous communities

Media as research discourses and archive

Knowledge may get lost, if no community/individual is telling stories any more

How to preserveknowledge?

How to bridge intergenerational, intercultural gaps?

How to use information technologies to preserve knowledge?

Virtual Campfire – A Teaser

International CommunitiesCommunication / Cooperation ?UNESCOSurveying/safeguardingSketch drawingAdministrationContent input / requestSPACHContent retrievalICOMOSExperiences imparting Cultural heritage in AfghanistanDatabaseSurveying/recordingStandards definingGPS positioningPhotographingAsiaRWTH AachenTeaching/presentationResearchwww.bamiyan-development.org

Knowledge SharingThe SECI Model (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 95)Interpretation with the Transcription-media Theory (Jäger, 02)Knowledge management for cultural heritage management communitiesExplicit KnowledgeImplicit KnowledgeImplicit KnowledgeExplicit Knowledge

Cross-MediaTheory of TranscriptionTranscriptCross-Media TranscriptionPre-“texts“Understandand Critisize Strategies of transcriptivity Collection of learning materials are re-structured by new mediaDesign is specific for media and communities by default Strategies of addressingSocial Software promotes the globalization of address spacesPersonalization and adaptive strategies are mission critical for communities Strategies of localisationRe-organization of local practices is stimulated by new mediaNeed to model practice explicitlyJäger, Stanitzek: Transkribieren - Medien/Lektüre 2002

Strategies of transcriptivity

Collection of learning materials are re-structured by new media

Design is specific for media and communities by default

Strategies of addressing

Social Software promotes the globalization of address spaces

Personalization and adaptive strategies are mission critical for communities

Strategies of localisation

Re-organization of local practices is stimulated by new media

Need to model practice explicitly

Learning & Knowledge ManagementIndividual / Community PerspectiveProcedural Knowledgesensomotoric skills, procedural scriptsnon-documented routines and operationsDeclarative KnowledgeSemantic Knowledgesemiotic conceptsdocumentationEpisodic Knowledge memory of experiencing past episodes web blogs, narratives[Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995]Verbalwordslinguistic dataNon-verbalimage, icon, indexvideo blogs, diagrams, images, photographies[Ullman, 2004]

Non-linear multimedia story-telling “Digital Storytelling uses digital media to create media-rich stories to tell, share and to preserve. Digital stories derive their power through weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, and insights.”Digital Storytelling Association(http://dsaweb.org)Tell: Experiencing & Navigating MM storiesShare: Web-based collaborationPreserve: DB driven storage of discoursese-learning

Applications for Non-linear Multimedia StorytellingProblem panelLocalizationAddressingMOD story creation panel:organic view, (cycle, …)Media panelTranscription

Story-tellling Expert FindingKnowledgevalueofcommunitysortedbykeywords# RecommendationsAmateurKeywordsExpert valuesExpert

Knowledgevalueofcommunitysortedbykeywords

MPEG-7 ServicesMPEG-7 ServicesMPEG-7 ServicesStorytellingServiceMPEG-7 ServicesStorytellingServiceMPEG-7 ServicesMap ServicesContext ServicesMap ServicesContext ServicesContext ServicesMPEG-7 ServicesContext ServicesSNA ToolsMediaCreationMediaTaggingGPS-augmented multimedia creationNon-linear digital storytellingMediaSearchMediaSearchMediaSearchMediaSearchMediaSearchStorytelling on the ipodSemantic BrowsingSemantic BrowsingSemantic BrowsingSemantic BrowsingContext aware multimedia searchContext aware multimedia GISMultimedia GISMPEG-7 multimedia tagging and commsonomyMPEG-7 enabled context aware multimedia searchContext-Aware Services(Mobile) InterfacesConnectors: HTTP, SOAPData SourcesStorytellingServiceMPEG-7 ServicesMPEG-7 ServicesMap ServicesContext ServicesSNA ToolsDatabasesMediaCreationMediaTaggingMultimedia ProcessorMetadataMediaSearchMultimediaAnnotationMultimediaExtractorMultimediaAdaptationSemantic BrowsingMultimediaRepositoryMultimediaRepositoryMultimediaRepositoryMultimediaPlayerMultimediaInputMashupsAutomatic Discovery & ConfigurationCommunity EngineWWWSessionManagerUserManagerData AccessObject ManagerVirtual Campfire Applications

Conclusions & Outlook