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eras figuring among the named eras listed in the ASW micro-thesaurus. In our case,
the period in question is the reign of Louis XIV, which constitutes a specific period
in the era <French Classical Age>.
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stage: the analyst then proceeds as described above: he can - if he so
desires - chronologically or simply qualitatively position the period in question (i.e.
the reign of Louis XIV) and/or such-and-such a particularly important date therein
(here, dates are only given for the beginning and end of the period, but the
underlying reference model can easily integrate other functional types of dates).
Even if the analytical task of historico-temporal contextualization seems rather
complex, the construction of models which can support this type of assessment is
not. All things considered, only part 3.1 of Figure 6.10 has to be adapted: choice of
the type of history and then of the micro-thesaurus containing the named eras for the
type of history in question. For instance, Figure 6.12 shows the use of a micro-
thesaurus containing the main (recognized) eras of Chinese history. It replaces the
micro-thesaurus containing the named eras of French history. The rest of the model
of description remains identical.
The aim of this section was to demonstrate the possible ways of going further
than the simple chronological pinpointing of the objects thematized in an
audiovisual text by also trying to provide tools to locate them in their appropriate
historical contexts, while bearing in mind that the periodization depends on the type
of history (and the historiographic approach) and that there can be no “true”
periodization of history.
6.8.Thematiccontextualization
This form of contextualization, as has been said in the introduction to this
chapter (section 6.1), enables us to explicitize the social or institutional, cultural or
historical, epistemological or mental framework of a knowledge object dealt with in
an audiovisual corpus. This type of framework is often called the
thematic
framework
. We prefer to use the term
axiological framework
in order to stress the
fact that it is the
relevant environment
in accordance with which a knowledge object
takes on its own meaning, its own interest, its own value for the text or corpus in
which it is being spoken about. By speaking of the
axiological framework
, we
therefore wish to reinforce that dimension of value which is intrinsically attached to
any object thematized in a text.
As has already been discussed in the introduction to this chapter, this form of
contextualization has not been systematically developed in our research. We have
used it, above all, in the context of the description of audiovisual corpora which
form part of the collection of audiovisual archives of the Fondation Maison des
