MECCA: Hypermedia Capturing of Collaborative Scientific Discourses about Movies

The success of collaborative hypermedia systems in business, engineering, or humanities heavily depends on the discursive nature of knowledge creation. Informing systems that assist cross-disciplinary communities of practice in these fields should therefore be able to capture, to visualize, and to s...

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Published in:Informing science 2005-01, Vol.8, p.3-38
Main Authors: Klamma, Ralf, Spaniol, Marc, Jarke, Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Business
Collaboration
Communities
Cooperation
Cultural studies
Education
Humanities
Hypermedia
Information systems
Interdisciplinary aspects
Knowledge
Linkages
Media
Motion pictures
Multimedia
Scholarly communication
Scholarly publishing
Scientists
Semantics
Support systems
Teaching
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Summary:The success of collaborative hypermedia systems in business, engineering, or humanities heavily depends on the discursive nature of knowledge creation. Informing systems that assist cross-disciplinary communities of practice in these fields should therefore be able to capture, to visualize, and to support the ongoing scientific discourse to keep participants informed and committed to the knowledge creation process. We present a solution for this issue, using the MECCA discourse support system for a movie research community as an example. MECCA integrates research processes with teaching processes in the humanities. Our study demonstrates that knowledge creation discourses involve a lot of re-"writing" (transcription) of discourse artifacts within or across media. We introduce an underlying formal technique to support flexible and adaptable transcription on hypermedia artifacts in the community. Our approach includes a linkage of knowledge to action which aims at seamless de-contextualization from action and re-contextualization into action. Keywords: Hypermedia, discourse support, humanities, MPEG-7, CSCL.
ISSN:1547-9684
1521-4672
DOI:10.28945/484