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Chapter 16
The Configurational Building Blocks of
Models of Description
16.1.Introduction
In the previous chapters, we have presented the
meta-lexicon of conceptual
terms*
in the ASW
universeofdiscourse*
and the thesaurus which provides a whole
range of pre-defined values for interpreting a particular conceptual term or
configuration of conceptual terms.
In this chapter, we shall discuss how the conceptual terms and the thesaurus
integrate with one another to form a model of description or a library of models of
description particular to a given audiovisual archive.
In section 16.2, we shall recap the concept of a model of description - a concept
which we have used throughout this topic.
Sections 16.3 and 16.4 are given over to a presentation of what exactly a
sequenceofdescription
is. We shall also see that every sequence of description has a
place in a library of sequences of description. Two important points which we shall
discuss in these two sections are, firstly, the question of defining a sequence of
description using a
canonic pair of schemas of definition*
and, secondly, that of
selecting and introducing a sequence into a
modelofdescription*
.
Finally, section 16.5 will again present the level of schemas of definition for a
descriptive model - schemas of definition which, as we know, are divided into two
major categories:
schemas of definition of the objects of analysis*
and
schemas of
definitionoftheactivitiesofanalysis*
.
