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audiovisual expression. In addition, the models of description available to us for
carrying out paratextual analyses (in the vein of the Dublin Core standard) are very
fixed and difficult to adapt - as indeed are those currently at our disposal for
carrying out a pragmatic analysis and adaptation/translations of audiovisual data.
Other limitations to our approach relate to an as-yet fairly incomplete
consideration of the “external” approaches and techniques likely to provide new
solutions. For instance, one thinks of a much more advanced integration of the
different standards into the ASW approach, the systematic coordination of our
resources with other ontologies and thesauruses, and the use of
speech to text
and
text mining
techniques to contribute both to the enrichment of our metalinguistic
resources and to a sort of pre-description/pre-indexation of audiovisual texts using
the ASW models of description.
Finally, our interest in the conception and creation of a system for analyzing
audiovisual corpora has always been driven by the desire to make such a system
available for use by any actor, individual or collective, particularly in the
“academic” world. The driving idea - so to speak - which guided us throughout
these 12 years of research and development devoted to audiovisual archives, was of
constituting a digital
Campus of audiovisual archives for research and teaching
- a
sort of “academic YouTube”, a cooperative made available to anyone interested in
the process of the constitution, analysis, diffusion and sharing of cultural or
scientific heritage in the form of personal or collective audiovisual archives.
Our desire is, of course, to propel our research in the directions cited, and ensure
the interested parties profit from it. However, as we know, this type of research
cannot be done simply. It requires not only significant human, technical and
financial resources but also an institutional framework which is propitious for
scientific research, a certain “tranquility of spirit” - conditions which we fear have
become utopian in today's world…
