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of the metalinguistic system. The system is made up of a set of files, which we shall
present later on.
The task of developing and/or managing a metalinguistic resource such as the
two meta-lexicons, the thesaurus or the configurational building blocks to construct
a library of descriptive models is carried out on three levels:
1) The first level (called
Annotation
; see Figure 11.15) is reserved for entering
the denomination of a metalinguistic element (conceptual term; value of a
conceptual term; title of a schema or sequence; titled of the model of description;
etc.) and its qualifier (i.e. its verbal definition and description, exemplification etc.).
A very useful distinction here is that which is drawn between
different names
(i.e.
between different sociolinguistic registers of denomination) which can be attributed
to a metalinguistic element depending on that element's use context:
internal
and
technical use
of the element in question,
public use
(e.g. on a website),
use
in the
form of an
explicative locution
or in the form of an
abbreviation
(an acronym, an
identifying icon, etc.).
2) The second level (called
Field (of definition)
; see Figure 11.15) is reserved -
as its name suggests - for the operational definition of a metalinguistic element:
definition of a schema of definition using a selection of conceptual terms; definition
of a conceptual term using a schema of indexation
stricto sensu
(see Chapter 16);
definition of a model of description using a selection of descriptive sequences; etc.
We also find the operation of coordinating between a metalinguistic item belonging
to the ASW system and a reference external to that system: coordination of a
conceptual term from the meta-lexicon denoting the objects of analysis of the
ASW universe of discourse with an expression (or list of expressions) from a
thesaurus or an external ontology; coordination of an ASW schema or sequence of
description with an element belonging to a standard or a norm.
3) Finally, the third level (called
Meta-File
; see Figure 11.15) is reserved for a
series of activities to manage the metalinguistic resources: coordination of the files
making up the domain ontology of a particular audiovisual archive; monitoring of
the main properties of each metalinguistic element (including, notably, the unique
identifier which defines a given element) and the history of the activities relating to
a given metalinguistic element.
Let us take another brief look at the general organization of the system of xml
files containing the ASW metalinguistic resources. Figure 11.16 shows that this file
system contains, among others, four main folders, each with a specific function.
