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model explicitizing and defining a vision of a domain of knowledge or expertise
which belongs to the
universeofdiscourse*
of an
audiovisualarchive*
.
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Term(conceptual)
1) A conceptual term (sometimes also simply called “concept”) is a
metalinguistic expression that designates a given type of
objects*
(in the ASW-HSS
project, we distinguish five specific types of objects).
2) The conceptual terms are part of the ASW
metalanguage of description*
where they are organized in the form of a hierarchy of concepts. This hierarchy of
concepts notably distinguishes between i) conceptual terms representing the
objectsof analysis*
of the ASW domain of expertise and ii) conceptual terms
representing the ASW activities and
proceduresofanalysis*
.
3) The conceptual terms representing the objects of analysis (first class of
conceptual terms) form the “domain of analysis” part of the
model of description*
,
and the conceptual terms representing the procedures of analysis (second class of
conceptual terms) form the analytical part (
perse
) of the
modelsofdescription*
.
Theme(see:Thematicconfiguration)
Topic(see:Topicalconfiguration
Thesaurus
1) The thesaurus is one of the main resources for
controlled description*
, as
part of the task of
analysis*
of an
audiovisualcorpus*
.
2) As part of the implementation of the different
experimental workshops*
of
the
ASW-HSS project*
, first a restricted and very simple thesaurus (countries of
the world, temporal periods, languages of the world, authors of French literature,
French regions and districts, etc.) was created. Gradually, this earliest thesaurus was
complemented by new
facets:
a facet interprets a dimension of the means of a
conceptual term*
(or a
schema*
of conceptual terms) and is interpreted by a
hierarchical list of predefined terms (of “descriptors”).
3) The ASW thesaurus is part of the resources of the ASW
metalanguage of
description*
(in the same way as the indexation generated by the analysts by way of
the procedure of
free description*
). In particular, we can distinguish between
common thesauruses
(i.e. common to the entire ASW universe of discourse) and
