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etc.) adopted to bring an archive to life and facilitate its exploitation for the most
diverse of users.
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Meta-description
1) Meta-description is a specific type of description which enables the analyst to
“take the floor”. Thus, for instance, he can further specify the content and objective
of his analysis, the value or interest of the objects being analyzed, etc.
2) Meta-description presents itself - on the one hand - as a type of analysis,
similar to thematic analysis* or pragmatic analysis* and - on the other - as a
specific task of thematic description* . In the former case, the goal of meta-
description is to explicitize the content, address issues and the objectives of an
analysis (content-based, audiovisual or otherwise) - see [CHE 11a]; in the latter
case, it serves the analyst to comment upon (evaluate, criticize, etc.) either a topic
being analyzed or the actual analysis of that topic.
Metalanguageofdescription
1) A structured set of models of description i.e. interactive forms* defining the
analyst's working interface in the ASWDescriptionWorkshop* .
2) The semiotic theory of the audiovisual text constitutes the frame of reference
for elaborating the ASW metalanguage of description* . Hence, in accordance with
this theoretical framework, the metalanguage of description* distinguishes
between several functional types of models of description among which: (i) a class
of models of description reserved for producing the meta-description itself
(clarifying the content, the objectives, the authors, the target audience, etc. of a
particular analysis); (ii) a category of models of description reserved for clarifying
the paratextual data of the audiovisual objects being analyzed: title of the object,
author(s), genre, language, intellectual property, etc.; (iii) a significant category of
models dedicated to the analysis of the content itself conveyed by an audiovisual
corpus; (iv) a category of models more particularly dedicated to the audiovisual
mise-en-scène of the content conveyed by an audiovisual corpus (models which
serve for analyzing the visual and acoustic shots); (v) a category of models
dedicated to the contextual and linguistic adaptation of an audiovisual corpus. In
other words, the ASW metalanguage of description is a generic ontology* , called
ASWontology* .
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