Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.
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| author | Srinivasan, Ramesh, 1976- |
| author2 | Walter Bender. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/623662019-04-10T23:10:51Z Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies Srinivasan, Ramesh, 1976- Walter Bender. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). The Village Voice project is a study of the efficacy of a localized ontology in the dissemination of narrative. It seeks to understand how community members can articulate their lives in ways that allow each other to reflect on the makeup of their overall community, and how they represent their community's needs to those outside of the group. I utilize a knowledge model, or ontology, created by community members as a foundation for representing and retrieving story fragments (video clips). The focus of this thesis will be to study the methodology by which such a knowledge model can be elicited, and the relative benefits of representing stories by this mechanism versus the standard database technique of keyword indexing. I evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this ontology-driven narrative system within the real-world context of a local community of Somali refugees (Jamaica Plain, MA). by Ramesh Srinivasan. S.M. 2011-04-25T15:47:38Z 2011-04-25T15:47:38Z 2002 2002 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62366 50881060 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 81 leaves application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Srinivasan, Ramesh, 1976- Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies |
| title | Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies |
| title_full | Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies |
| title_fullStr | Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies |
| title_short | Village Voice : expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies |
| title_sort | village voice expressing narrative through community designed ontologies |
| topic | Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. |
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