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Video-lexicon
1) The video-lexicon is a specific genre of publication of an audiovisual corpus
which looks very similar to a traditional thematic dictionary: the thematically
delimited chapters of such a dictionary include - in alphabetical order - a list of
leading expressions which are defined and exemplified in dedicated articles. A
video-lexicon is composed of several thematically delimited “chapters”; each
chapter contains a set of leading terms and each leading term constitutes the object
of discourse in small audiovisual segments.
2) This genre of publication was tested by
ESCoM*
for the
ARA program*
as
part of several French and European research projects (in particular see
SAPHIR*
).
Today there are prototypes of video-lexicons on world languages and world cultures,
which are distributed on the
ARA*
portal site.
Video-book(interactive)
1) The interactive video-book is a specific genre of publication of an audiovisual
corpus. Its structure shows similarities to a “book” in the conventional sense of the
word. It is made up of chapters offering the interested reader the opportunity to
navigate through an audiovisual record (which may be several hours in length) by
“leafing through” (i.e. as if the reader were leafing through a topic…).
2) The interactive video-book is one of the “standard” models of publication of
the
ARAprogram*
.
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Workingprocess(ofaudiovisualproduction-publication)
1) As part of the
ARA program*
, the working process facilitating the
constitution, publication and distribution of scientific or cultural heritage can be
broken down into five main stages: i) preliminary activities prior to a field work
lato
sensu
taking place; ii) field activities (
lato sensu
) recording and collecting all the
data documenting that field; iii) processing and analysis of the audiovisual corpus;
iv) audiovisual publication; v) activities which put the finishing touches to the
working process.
2) Each phase is composed of a set of specific tasks or activities which are
instrumented and described in the technical documentation which accompanies the
working process.
