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Chapter 2
The Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop (ASW)
Studio - A Brief Presentation
2.1.Aworkingenvironmentforanalyzingcorporaofaudiovisualtexts
Before discussing the issues relating to the conception and development of
models for describing audiovisual corpora using a metalanguage of description, we
shall give a brief overview of the working environment of an analyst of audiovisual
corpora - an environment called the
ASW Studio
1
(for a detailed presentation of the
ASW Studio, see [STO 11a]).
The ASW Studio relies, on the one hand, on an overall vision of the activities
which make up the process of appropriation of an audiovisual text by the analyst for
a specifically-targeted user and, on the other hand, on the
semiotic
approach to the
(in our case, audiovisual)
text
, which we described briefly in the first chapter of this
topic (also see [STO 03]).
The representation and simulation of the activities of appropriation, i.e.
qualitative transformation of an audiovisual text into a resource, an asset for a
specific audience, takes the shape of one or more
scenarios
of activities guided by
1 The acronym
ASW
is a reference to the research project which facilitated the development
of this environment. As stated in the introduction to this topic, we refer here to the
Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop for describing audiovisual corpora in human and social
sciences
(ASW-HSS), financed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) from the
start of 2009 to the end of 2011 (for further information, see the project's website:
http://www.asa-shs.fr/ or the research log devoted to this project on the Hypothèses.org
portal: http://asashs.hypotheses.org/).
