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two dimensions (the objects and procedures of the analysis) while keeping in mind
the importance of the other dimensions cited above, both for an appropriate vision of
any analytical activity and for the enrichment of the ASW Studio, to become a
veritable “workshop of knowledge engineering and management”.
2. A
faceted thesaurus*
which, for certain conceptual terms (or concepts) of the
meta-lexicon, pre-determines lists of values in the form of
descriptors
which can be
used by the analysts of audiovisual corpora. The use of a thesaurus is particularly
helpful in order to obtain a certain degree of homogeneity in the results of the
analysis, either for data which are already standardized or highly structured
a priori
(as is the case for example with the indexation of countries, districts, regions or
administrative provinces of a country, chronological periods, languages, etc.), or for
data for which we wish to obtain “controlled” results, i.e. analytical results obtained
because of a choice of terms or “descriptors” imposed on the analyst.
3.
Libraries
of
blocks*
of pre-existing models (called
sequences*
or
schemas*
)
which can be re-used just as they are or following certain modifications for a
specific analysis project. Thus, there are
sequences
of
geographical
and
temporal
location
of the object of an analysis, sequences of
discourse analysis
, sequences of
analysis of the visual/sound shot
, schemas defining the
object of analysis*
, schemas
defining the
procedures of free*
or
controlled description*
of an object of analysis,
etc. All these blocks can be re-used as they are, or following certain modifications in
the process of developing models of description for a given domain of knowledge/
expertise.
Conceptual meta-lexicons, thesauruses and libraries of blocks of models of
description enable us to define the
metalanguage of description*
which is apt for
analyzing the audiovisual corpora documenting a given domain of knowledge/
expertise, i.e. the universe of discourse of a particular audiovisual archive.
A
metalanguage of description*
manifests itself in the form of a dynamic library
of models of description which differ, as we have seen, in terms of the
object of the
analysis*
. Thus:
1. a class of models of description is reserved for the actual
production of the
meta-description
, i.e. the explicitation of the content, objectives, authors, target
audience, etc. of a particular analysis (on this subject, see [CHE 11a]);
2. a class of models of description is reserved for the explicitation of the
paratextual data
of the audiovisual objects being subjected to the analysis: the
object's title, author(s), genre, language, intellectual property, etc. (see [CHE 11a]);
3. an important class of models of description is given over to the actual analysis
of the
content
conveyed by an audiovisual corpus (this is the main topic of this
topic);
