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the audiovisual text (i.e. the passage which “actually” deals with Jules Barbey
d'Aurevilly) has been identified, the analyst need only:
- select the appropriate form in the LHE library of forms;
- then confirm his choice to deal with a subject represented by the conceptual
term [Author]; and
- finally, select the appropriate name from the list of authors' names in the
micro-thesaurus made available to him.
It is impossible to conceive of quicker and simpler analyses than this, which are
also based on a model which can be
reused just as it is
for a very great variety of
similar cases. However, attaining such a level of rapidity and simplicity (for the
analyst), presupposes a complex process of defining, designing and developing
models of description.
Yet, as has already been said, being able to reduce the topical structure defining
a type of knowledge object to a single conceptual term truly constitutes a rare case.
In the following sections of this chapter, we shall examine some more complex
cases.
8.3.(Re-)configuringandadaptinganexistingtopicalstructure
Let us now look at the second possibility mentioned above - that which requires
the analyst to adapt a pre-existing topic structure to turn it into a tool appropriate for
his task of analysis. We shall call this task of adaptation
(re-)configuration of a
topicalstructure
.
In section 5.2, we discussed the fact that the analyst must first
configure
(define)
his topical structure, and then merely describe it. If the act of “configuration” can be
reduced to the simple gesture, described above, of selecting one and only one term,
this act is elementary and poses no problem.
However, as has already been said, the sequences organizing the referential
description into an interactive form for describing an audiovisual text may include
whole sections from the ASW meta-lexicon, leaving the analyst the freedom but also
the responsibility of selecting the conceptual terms which best suit his analysis.
Figures 8.3 and 8.4 show an example of this possibility. They show an
interactive form which serves the analyst for describing audiovisual texts which
provide information (either visually or in the form of held discourse) in relation to
objects with heritage status, such as sound or cinematic documents, and/or about
institutions (museums, archives, etc.) where this kind of objects can be found.
