Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Glossary of Specialized Terms
NOTE: Expressions in bold and followed by an asterisk (e.g. “
ASW-HSS
project*
”) appear in the glossary.
A
Activityofanalysis
1) A type of concrete action which serves to denote, name, index, annotate, etc.,
an
objectofanalysis*
.
2) An activity of analysis, either alone or in conjunction with other analytical
activities, makes up a procedure of description (including, more specifically, the
procedureoffreedescription*
and the
procedureofcontrolleddescription*
).
3) Every activity of analysis is identified by its corresponding conceptual term in
the
meta-lexicon*
whose root term is [Procedure of analysis].
Analysis(ofanaudiovisualcorpus)
1) A term denoting one of the two main categories of tasks and activities of work
on an audiovisual corpus. The other category is
processing*
of an audiovisual
corpus.
2) The work of analysis involves explicitizing the
potential
value*
of an
audiovisual text for a given audience (the
analyst*
could be this audience). A
potential
value*
may be new information provided about a particular topic, missing
or unpublished images, explanations which facilitate better understanding of a fact,
etc.
