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4) Obviously, thematic description varies the most between the different domains
of knowledge, as opposed to other types of description (
paratextual*
,
audiovisual*
,
pragmatic*
, peritextual, etc.) which are relatively independent from
the referential specificities of a given domain. Hence, implementing a systematic
thematic description is an immense task in terms of modeling the domain of
knowledge to be dealt with, and then defining and implementing a metalanguage of
description appropriate to the peculiarities of the domain in question.
Document(Audiovisual)-(audiovisualtext)
1) A term denoting an audiovisual object which has in principle been
processed,
analyzed and published
, i.e. an audiovisual object which, by way of a set of
activities forming part of the
working process
* of audiovisual production-
publishing, is given the
status
and
function
- quite rightly, and at least in its authors'
eyes - of
documenting something
, reporting, providing information, knowledge,
satisfying curiosity, etc.
2) An audiovisual text is only available to us in the form of a specific
publishing
genre*
. As part of the publication activities of the
ARA program*
, it is available to
us, e.g. in the form of an
interactive* video-book
, a documentary, a report, a
themedfolder*
, an
educationalfolder*
etc.
3) The audiovisual document is one of the “tangible”, “visible” results of the
publishedcorpus*
(published online in the context of the ARA program).
4) The digital audiovisual document is not necessarily a static, set, definitive
audiovisual text. On the contrary, particularly by way of
republication*
, the
audiovisual document may evolve over time and be enriched, change form, etc.
Domainofknowledge/expertise
1) The domain of knowledge is the referential universe which is covered by the
metalanguage of description*
and, more particularly, the library of
models of
description*
of a given
audiovisualcollection*
.
2) The expression “domain of knowledge/expertise” highlights that we must
distinguish between the domain as it is cognitively represented by the
knowledge
engineer*
(
domain of knowledge in the sense of a fairly reliable expert assessment,
more-or-less universally accepted, etc.
) and the
real domain
which is supposed to
correspond to the domain of knowledge in the form of an expert assessment.
3) In the ASW-HSS project, several domains of knowledge have been defined
and explained in the form of specific metalanguages of description (also called
domain ontologies*
) i.e. the domains of knowledge covered by the main
