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3) As part of the ASW-HSS project and its different experimental fields,
metalanguages of description have been created for six domains of knowledge/
expertise. These correspond to the project's main
experimental workshops
. These
six domains share all the models of description of type (i), type (ii), type (iv) and
type (v). Only type (iii) models of description systematically vary between the six
workshops. Thus, each of these workshops has its own models for describing
audiovisual content which is adapted to their domain of knowledge/expertise. These
metalanguages are what we call
domain ontologies*
derived from a
generic
ontology*
which is the
ASWontology*
.
ASWmeta-lexicon
1) The ASW meta-lexicon forms one of the crucial metalinguistic resources
which we need in order to elaborate metalanguages of description which are specific
to the universe of discourse of such-and-such an archive - metalanguages of
description in the form of a
libraryofmodelsofdescription*
. It is a hierarchically-
organized vocabulary - an ontology - of
conceptual terms*
(“concepts”) which
serve as input when defining the various
building blocks*
which make up a model
of description.
2) The ASW meta-lexicon is, in reality, made up of two mutually
complementary meta-lexicons: a) the meta-lexicon which identifies, denotes and
classifies into a taxonomic structure, all the
analytical objects in the ASW
universe
of discourse*
; b) the meta-lexicon which identifies, denotes and classifies all the
analytical activities*
we use in order to describe the content of an audiovisual text,
the discourse production around it, it audiovisual expression, etc.
ASWmicro-thesaurus
1) A micro-thesaurus is composed of a
facet*
interpreted by a (hierarchical) list
of standardized expressions (descriptors).
2) The micro-thesaurus is used by the procedure of
controlled description*
where it replaces the analyst's free entry of the minimal expression to appropriately
denote a conceptual term or configuration thereof.
Modelofcollection
1) A model of collection (of audiovisual data, etc.) explicitizes the criteria to be
taken into consideration when compiling a
fieldcorpus*
.
