Semantic processing of multimedia data by MPEG-7 for capacious knowledge management

The design of cooperative knowledge management systems depends on a tight interplay between the organization of knowledge and communicative processes within the communities of practice. Therefore, we examine the opportunities given by new metadata standards like MPEG-7 for knowledge management of both community knowledge and communication processes. In Germany's first interdisciplinary and collaborative research center on "Media and cultural communication", we are studying the influence of transcription, localization, and (re-) addressing on digital media. Furthermore, we want to give an overview on the opportunities in combining metadata information and multimedia retrieval techniques. Exemplarily, we want to introduce our Virtual Entrepreneurship Lab (VEL) as an approach to comply with these tasks.