Virtual Campfire Digital Media Discourses between Cultures, Continents and Generations Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, September 11, 2009 Ralf Klamma Informatik 5 RWTH Aachen
Agenda Media Discourses International Communities in Cultural Heritage Management Knowledge Management Non-linear storytelling Virtual Campfire Conclusions and Outlook
Virtual Campfire A Teaser
Media Discourses New Challenges Media is witness for cultural heritage preservation Knowledge may get lost, if no community/individual is telling stories any more Reconstruction? How? Heterogeneous communities Media as research discourses and archive How to preserve knowledge? How to bridge intergenerational, intercultural gaps? How to use information technologies to preserve knowledge?
International Communities UNESCO Communication / Cooperation? Database Content input / request Content retrieval ICOMOS Standards defining Administration Surveying/ recording GPS positioning Cultural heritage in Afghanistan Photographing RWTH Aachen Asia Sketch drawing SPACH Surveying/ safeguarding Experiences imparting Research Teaching/ presentation www.bamiyan-development.org
Knowledge Sharing The SECI Model (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 95) Interpretation with the Transcription-media Theory (Jäger, 02) Knowledge management for cultural heritage management communities Implicit Knowledge Explicit Knowledge Implicit Knowledge Explicit Knowledge
Cross-Media Theory of Transcription Pre- texts Cross-Media Transcription Transcript 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 Understand and Critisize Jäger, Stanitzek: Transkribieren - Medien/Lektüre 2002
Learning & Knowledge Management Individual / Community Perspective Declarative Knowledge Procedural Knowledge sensomotoric skills, procedural scripts non-documented routines and operations Semantic Knowledge semiotic concepts documentation Episodic Knowledge memory of experiencing past episodes web blogs, narratives Verbal words linguistic data Non-verbal image, icon, index video blogs, diagrams, images, photographies [Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995] [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 stories Share: Web-based collaboration Preserve: DB driven storage of discourses e-learning
Applications for Non-linear Multimedia Storytelling Localization Addressing Problem panel MOD story creation panel: organic view, (cycle, ) Media panel Transcription
Story-tellling Expert Finding Knowledge value of community sorted by keywords # Recommendations Amateur Expert values Expert Keywords
Virtual Campfire Applications GPSaugmented multimedia creation Multimedia GIS (Mobile) Interfaces Media Creation Media Tagging Media Search Semantic Browsing Mashups Automatic Discovery & Configuration Connectors: HTTP, SOAP Storytelling Service Context aware multimedia GIS Session Manager Context-Aware Services MPEG-7 Map Context Services Services Services Multimedia Processor Multimedia Storytelling Multimedia Adaptation on the ipod Annotation Multimedia Player Multimedia Input Context aware multimedia search User Object Manager Manager Community Engine SNA Tools Data Sources Databases Non-linear digital storytelling Metadata Multimedia Extractor Data Access Multimedia Multimedia Repository Repository WWW MPEG-7 multimedia tagging and commsonomy MPEG-7 enabled context aware multimedia search
Conclusions & Outlook Virtual Campfire Media discourses for large distributed professional communities Discourse support between generations, cultures, and contintents Cultural heritage preservation as an example Integrated story-telling and knowledge management approach Complete implementation as a community information system Future Work Mobile Storytelling and new media (3D scans, realtime video) Integration of serious gaming Sustaining communities beyond funded projects