Multimedia creation, annotation and sharing are challenging tasks especially of interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational communities. We present the mobile social software Virtual Campfire to provide cross-media and cross-community support for de- and recontextualization of multimedia content, employing Web Services, the MPEG-7 standard and Web 2.0 technologies etc. Virtual Campfire can enable communities to set up and maintain multimedia community information systems quickly and easily.
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Categories: H.2.4, H.5.1, i-KNOW 2007
Tags: Community of Practice, Information system, Mobile computing, MPEG-7, Multimedia, Social Software, Web 2.0, Web Service