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However, we also think of (open-ended) lists of names of places, people,
institutions, works, etc. which the analyst of a particular archive might need and
which would greatly simplify his task (the simplification consisting essentially of
the fact of “ticking” this-or-that value for a conceptual term to be embellished,
instead of producing a free, verbal description/indexation of it).
Of course, such a process of enrichment cannot just be done “manually”. It must
rely on (at least partially) automatic processes, matching the lists of expressions and
facets making up the ASW thesaurus with the metalinguistic data from resources
outside the ASW system.
A second avenue - just as important as the first - concerns the
reuse of free
indexations
(verbal or other forms of descriptions carried out by way of the
procedure of free description*
) produced by the community of analysts working
with the ASW tools and resources for a particular audiovisual archive.
Such “recycling” would entail offering the analyst of an audiovisual text or
corpus controlled suggestions of expressions produced freely by other analysts in the
“ASW community” beforehand. These freely-produced expressions could form lists
of predefined values - in just the same way as the standardized expressions
interpreting the meaning of a conceptual term (see the examples above in
Figures 15.3 and 15.4). The analyst would then have the option of reusing the
expressions produced by other members of the community of analysts (by ticking
them in the list of available expressions) or “devising” a new formula to explicitize a
conceptual term or configuration of conceptual terms.
