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Figure 11.5 illustrates that the standardized expression
Argentina
can be used, in
the context of the ASW thesaurus, for three (slightly) different facets: the facet
Contemporary countries of the Americas
; the facet
Countries with literary culture
;
and the facet
All the countries of the world (start of 2000)
. Of course, we can
conceive of a whole range of other facets in which the standardized expression
Argentina
can be used. The three facets listed above and in Figure 11.5 are pertinent
for analyzing corpora from the experimentation workshops of the ASW-HSS
project. That is why they have been created.
Figure11.5.
UseofthestandardizedexpressionArgentinainthreedifferent
facetsbelongingtotheASWthesaurus
Figure 11.6 offers a summary overview of the main parts of the thesaurus in the
ASW universe of discourse. We distinguish between:
1. the
shared thesaurus
in the ASW domain of analysis. The shared thesaurus is
made available to every user (analyst), every group of users (analysts) but can only
be modified (enriched) by the committee (the “authority”) responsible for managing
the ASW thesaurus;
2. the
thesauruses specific
to a group or community of users of the
ASW resources. These thesauruses represent the specific points of view relating to
the universe of discourse of an archive. For instance, the AICH audiovisual archives
(
Andean Intangible Cultural Heritage
3
) have their own facets and expressions for
analyzing the audiovisual texts which constitute their collection. In addition, facets
and lists of standardized expressions from the shared thesaurus can be copied into
that part which is specific to a community of analysts in order to freely be able to
modify either the facets or the lists of standardized expressions;
3 See: http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/pcia/.
