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re-mediation
of textual data which have already been mediatized - a problem which
relates directly to the legal protection of the content and the traceability of the use to
which certain content is put.
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6) Finally, the stage of conservation of the data collected, processed, analyzed or
published in the context of a project or program to constitute or distribute a
knowledge heritage database is more particularly concerned with selecting these
data to create a
patrimonial corpus
in the true sense with the objective, among
others, of safeguarding a set of knowledge and values, i.e. a
culture
and its
traditions
, and passing them down from one generation to the next. In formal terms,
a patrimonial corpus may be similar to one or other types of corpus identified and
discussed above, but functionally speaking, it is different from all the rest. In
addition, this means that even if, technically, the constitution of a patrimonial corpus
can be reduced to simply selecting data from the different corpora which
characterize the task of constitution, analysis and distribution of a body of
knowledge heritage, that technical activity of selection is necessarily subject to a
patrimonial policy
(in a strict or a broad sense). Thus, the constitution of a
patrimonial corpus documenting a specific scientific problem, e.g. may have the aim
of creating and changing a veritable culture in the matter with its values, its
traditions, its doxa, it heterodoxies, but also its great discoveries and inventions, its
“heroes”, its milestone events and dates, its
savoir-faire
, etc. The constitution - and
enrichment - of a patrimonial corpus may also have the aim of promoting the
identity and fame of an institution - its excellence, its competitiveness, its attraction,
etc. As we know, the promotion of an institution's identity is no longer the preserve
of commercial companies and enterprises, but rather, following the drastic changes
affecting the global framework of research and public-sector education, has become
“acculturation” of the virtual communities making up this “new cultural diversity” (to use
UNESCO's expression) resulting from the digital revolution (also see [DES 11a; DES 11b;
DES 11c]).
8 On this point, see a highly innovative experiment described by Francis Lemaitre and Valérie
Legrand-Galarza, based on a new piece of technology (the V.D.I. -
Versatile Digital Item
;
http://www.ict-convergence.eu/) enabling all use of a video to be tracked so that the
proprietors of the content of a video used and reused can monitor the use to which it is put on
the web [LEG 11b]. Here the experiment is based on the concrete case of the PCIA archives
(Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel Andin; http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/pcia/; English
equivalent AICH - Andean Intangible Cultural Heritage) created by Valérie Legrand-Galarza
in collaboration with the Quechua communities concerned. One of the main goals of these
archives is to enable all educators, all researchers, to exploit and use the videos making up the
AICH collection while respecting the moral and actual legal rights of the communities
involved - particularly the right to revoke content diffuse and/or reinterpretation and
republication (see [LEG 11b]).
