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- as well as, which is not shown in Figure 2.1, locating the civilization or
civilizational phenomenon in question, in space and time; and
- finally, possibly producing an analysis of the specificity of the discourse given
over to the civilizational phenomenon (e.g. in the context of an audiovisual
recording of a conference, seminar, interview, etc.).
The organization and function of a form as shown in Figure 2.1 will be explained
later on (see Chapter 5). Let us highlight here that the ASW Studio is presented as
an interface composed of a series of forms which the analyst can use to carry out a
fairly simple and rapid, or alternatively, a detailed and systematic, task of
appropriating an audiovisual text.
A form is an interactive meta-text which serves the analyst to produce a
description of a text-object - a video or a part thereof.
It should be highlighted that the interactive form necessarily refers to a
model of
description*
of which it is a “material” representation, so to speak. The model of
description in turn forms part of the
metalanguage of description
peculiar to a
domain of knowledge or expertise such as that of the CCA audiovisual portal
(
Culture Crossroads Archives
(in French,
Archives Rencontre des Cultures
, ARC))
2
devoted to cultural diversity and intercultural dialog.
Figure 2.2 offers an overall view of the working interface in the
ASWDescription Workshop
. The Description Workshop is one of the four
components making up the ASW Studio, the other three being the textual
Segmentation Workshop
, the
Publishing Workshop
for audiovisual text corpora
previously described and indexed, and the
Modeling Workshop
reserved for those in
charge of preparing the metalinguistic resources (the models of description for the
analysis) necessary for the work of the analyst and the writer/editor of a publication.
We shall present this briefly in Chapter 11 (section 11.8).
The component of the ASW Studio called the
Publishing Workshop
-
per se
- is
based on a piece of software (over a Web application) called
Semiosphere
, which
allows a person or group (a community) of people to create and manage their own
audiovisual archives (also called “channels” in the sense of YouTube or
Daily Motion) and publish their own collections there in the form, for example, of
2 CCA (French, ARC) is an experimentation lab in the ASW-HSS Project, created and
coordinated by Elisabeth de Pablo and used, amongst other contexts, in the context of
teaching international communication to 2
nd
- and 3
rd
-year undergraduate students and 1
st
- and
2
nd
-year Masters students at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales - National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations) in Paris:
http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/arc/.
