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2) the stage of the realization of the field work
1
;
3) the stage of
technical and auctorial treatment
of the data collected (including,
amongst other things, the
derushing
of audiovisual data, the montage and
postproduction of the audiovisual data collected);
4) the stage of
analysis
(description, indexing but also pragmatic adaptation) of
the data collected and documenting a terrain;
5) the stage of the
publication
and
diffusion
of the data collected and/or analyzed
and, finally,
6) the stage of
conservation
of the data collected/analyzed/published.
However, each stage in this process of digitization of a body of knowledge
heritage necessarily has to do with a certain
functionally specialized
type of
corpus*
(in our case, an audiovisual corpus):
1) The stage of preparation of a field for collecting audiovisual data can only be
conceived of in reference to a pre-existing
corpus
, or by compiling the knowledge
and sources of information necessary to the proper functioning of the field work
(knowledge and sources which could cover bibliographical references, online
resources, personal information, “good practices”, examples of similar projects
underway or already carried out, directories, etc.).
2
1 As part of the research program ARA (Audiovisual Research Archives;
http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/FR/) which we set up in 2001/2002 at the Fondation
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) in Paris, we quite deliberately use the term
“field
(work)”
in a very broad sense. Thus, this umbrella term covers the collection of data
documenting - on the one hand - an
“event” or a punctual and delimited “manifestation”
(a
punctual, delimited manifestation such as a seminar, a class, a conference, a work meeting,
etc. punctuating day-to-day life in the worlds of research and higher education) and - on the
other -
field research
, in the traditional sense of the term in human and social sciences (HSS)
(such as, for instance, an ethnological mission aimed at collecting - usually in several stages,
and with very variable durations - all sorts of data relating to the social organization of a
community, of its social and cultural life).
2 Thus, for instance, as part of the ARA program, we put in place a whole procedure for
collecting information, knowledge and other useful data to bring a project on interviews with
a researcher to fruition - a project which may take the form of a single interview or a series of
interviews, of interviews
in situ
(that is, in the researcher's workplace), interviews constituted
of different participants engaging in discussion with the guest researcher, etc. This procedure
is based on a simple model defining the criteria to be taken into consideration when preparing
an interview with a researcher - criteria such as being familiar with the researcher and his/her
personal career, with his/her main fields of research, with the academic and scientific context,
etc. However, this model also requires the person in charge of preparing the interview to
collect data to facilitate the conducting of the interview itself, on the one hand, and the
exploitation of the data documenting the interview in terms of its technical and auctorial
