An Overview of the ASW Metalinguistic Resources - Audiovisual Archives - page 162

In section 11.4, we shall give a summary presentation of another type of
metalinguistic resource - the ASW thesaurus. As we saw in the previous chapters,
the ASW thesaurus plays a crucial role in the procedure of controlled description.
Sections 11.5 and 11.6 are given over to a presentation of the configurational
building blocks* which make up the models of description* . As has also been
explained in the previous chapters, we distinguish between two categories of such
building blocks: the sequencesofdescription* and the schemasofdefinition* .
In section 11.7, we shall touch on the question of metalinguistic resources
beyond those making up the ASW metalinguistic system.
Finally, in section 11.8, we shall give an (again brief) presentation of the
working environment the ASW Modeling Workshop , which is used to define and
manage, on the one hand, the generic metalanguage of the ASW universe of
discourse* and, on the other, all the metalanguages of domain* peculiar to the
universe of discourse of a particular audiovisual archive.
11.2.GeneraloverviewoftheASWsystemofmetalinguisticresources
Figure 11.1 shows the different parts which make up the ASW system of
metalinguistic resources. To begin with, we distinguish the Library of models of
description . A library of models of description comprises at least one, but generally
numerous specific models of description* which represent the vision of the universe
of discourse* of a given audiovisual archive . The vision of the universe of discourse
of an archive may change depending on the interests, the objectives, or simply
depending on the function of its textual object. Thus, a library of models may
undergo changes. However, the possible consequences such changes might have for
already-conducted analyses must be carefully evaluated.
A library of descriptive models is made up of models specialized in the analysis
of a specific part or aspect of the textual object as it is apprehended from a semiotic
perspective (see section 1.6). Thus, as explained in Part 1 of this topic, we
distinguish between models which serve to carry out:
‒ the description of an actual analysis (that is, the task of meta-description* );
‒ paratextual description* (i.e. description of the formal identity of the
audiovisual text from a perspective entirely comparable with that given by the
Dublin Core standard);
- audiovisual description* stricto sensu (i.e. description of the visual, acoustic
and/or audiovisual plans of the audiovisual text);