An Approach to a Supporting System for Radio program Design with Knowledge Liquidization and Crystallization

The social concern about designing some kind of contents has been growing for the last several years in multimedia society. In current broadcasting industry, an important topic has been discussed how to design contents. The Ministry of Public Management in Japan announced that Analog broadcasting would be terminated and Digital broadcasting would be made to realize completely in 2011. Generally speaking, most broadcasting stations in Japan are worried about the shortage of contents. However, the effective methodology to make contents is not established in many cases. On the other hand, various studies have been conducted on designing contents in a number of academic fields. These studies have produced some important achievements. In this paper, a method named “knowledge liquidization and crystallization”, and a system named “Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer (KNC) for Radio program design” are described. It is also reported that how they work for supporting the process of knowledge creation in human practices. As an exemplar of knowledge creation, we have applied the method and system to actual Radio program design processes.