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Virtual Campfire –Digital Media Discourses

between Cultures, Continents and Generations

Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, September 11, 2009

Ralf KlammaInformatik 5

RWTH Aachen

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Agenda

Med

ia D

isco

urse

s

Inte

rnat

iona

l C

omm

uniti

es in

Cul

tura

l H

erita

ge M

anag

emen

t

Kno

wle

dge

Man

agem

ent

Non

-line

ar s

tory

telli

ng

Virt

ual C

ampf

ire

Con

clus

ions

and

Out

look

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Media Discourses – New Challenges

• Media is witness for cultural heritage preservation

– Heterogeneous communities– Media as research discourses

and archive

Reconstruction? How?

• 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?

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Virtual Campfire – A Teaser

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International Communities

Communication / Cooperation ?

Cultural heritage in Afghanistan

Database

Content input / request

Content retrieval

Surveying/safeguarding

Sketch drawing

Photographing

Surveying/recording

GPS positioning

Experiences imparting

Administration

UNESCO

Teaching/presentation

Asia

ICOMOS

Standards defining

Research

RWTH Aachen

SPACH

www.bamiyan-development.org

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Knowledge Sharing

• The SECI Model (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 95)

• Interpretation with the Transcription-media Theory (Jäger, 02)

• Knowledge management for cultural heritage management communitiesImplicit

Knowledge

Implicit Knowledge

Explicit Knowledge

Explicit Knowledge

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Cross-MediaTheory of Transcription

Pre-“texts“

TranscriptCross-Media Transcription

Understandand Critisize

Jäger, 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

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Learning & Knowledge ManagementIndividual / Community Perspective

[Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995]

[Ullman, 2004]

Semantic Knowledgesemiotic concepts

documentation

Verbal

wordslinguistic data

Non-verbal

image, icon, indexvideo blogs, diagrams, images, photographies

Episodic Knowledge memory of experiencing past episodes

web blogs, narratives

Declarative Knowledge Procedural Knowledgesensomotoric skills, procedural scripts

non-documented routines and operations

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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

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Applications for Non-linear Multimedia Storytelling

Problem panel

Media panel

Addressing

Transcription

MOD story creation panel:

organic view, (cycle, …)

Localization

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Story-tellling Expert Finding

KeywordsExpert values

Knowledge value of community sorted by keywords

# R

eco

mm

end

atio

ns

Expert

Amateur

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Data SourcesContext-Aware Services

Community Engine

WWW

MPEG-7 Services

Context Services

UserManager

Map Services

StorytellingService

Object Manager

(Mobile) Interfaces

SessionManager

SNA Tools

Multimedia Processor

MultimediaAnnotation

MultimediaExtractor

MultimediaAdaptation

MultimediaPlayer

Metadata

Databases

Co

nn

ecto

rs: HT

TP, S

OA

P

MultimediaRepository

MediaCreation

MediaSearch

MediaTagging

Semantic Browsing

Mashups

Automatic Discovery &

Configuration

MultimediaInput

Data Access

MultimediaRepositoryMultimediaRepository

Context Services

MediaCreation

GPS-augmented multimedia creation

MPEG-7 Services

Multimedia GIS

Map Services

MediaSearch

Semantic Browsing

MPEG-7 Services

Context aware multimedia GIS

Map Services

MediaSearch

Semantic Browsing

Context Services

MPEG-7 Services

MPEG-7 multimedia tagging and commsonomy

SNA Tools

MediaSearch

MediaTagging

MPEG-7 ServicesMPEG-7 Services

Context Services

MediaSearch

Semantic Browsing

MPEG-7 enabled context aware multimedia search

MPEG-7 Services

StorytellingService

Semantic Browsing

Non-linear digital storytelling

StorytellingService

Storytelling on the ipod

Context aware multimedia search

MediaSearch

MPEG-7 Services

Context Services

Virtual Campfire Applications

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Conclusions & Outlook

• 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

Virtual Campfire

• Mobile Storytelling and new media (3D scans, realtime video)• Integration of serious gaming • Sustaining communities beyond funded projects

Future Work