Digital Media Knowledge Management with MPEG-7

Knowledge and management do not fit prima facie. Management aims at goal-oriented action while in many sciences, especially in the humanities, knowledge and the creation of knowledge have a discursive nature. This process of knowledge creation, interpreting and discussing selected observed or postulated phenomena, is leading to some progress but hard to control. It is important to recognize that the process needs a tight interplay between communicative acts and the organization of knowledge. Furthermore, this can only happen in the context of certain media combinations. The key ability of computer science to re-combine digital media justifies why computer science deals with digital media management. The key point is simple: it is impossible to develop and debate concepts separately from the media through which they are communicated. This appears to argue strongly against the possibility of purely abstract conceptual modeling or ontology building, without explicit consideration how these ontologies are captured and communicated via media. The first aspect of our conceptual framework are three knowledge operations on media called transcription, localization and (re-) addressing developed in the context of studying media operations from a cultural sciences perspective [2] which has applications in cooperative knowledge management (KM) [3]. For a short overview the operations are defined as follows: