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Then (section 5.3), we shall outline a number of theoretical and methodological
distinctions which we believe to be important in order to fully comprehend the
objective and the stakes involved in referential analysis. The distinctions to which
we refer are those between
subject*
and
topical configuration*
(or structure) and
between
thematicconfiguration*
and
topicalconfiguration*strictosensu
.
Section 5.4 is given over to a brief presentation of a library of
sequences*
for use
in the referential description of an archive's universe of discourse. The example used
is of the
CCA
(
Culture Crossroads Archives
)
1
, which is one of the experimentation
workshops of the ASW-HSS project.
Finally, section 5.5 introduces the issue of conceptual modeling as an
indispensable activity for defining a model of description of the content of an
audiovisual corpus. This issue will be further developed in Chapter 8 of this topic.
5.2.Asimpleexampleofreferentialdescription
The extract of the analytical form shown in Figure 3.2 shows the functional field
reserved for the analytical task of
Describing the knowledge object(s) thematized
in
the audiovisual text.
As pointed out in Chapter 3, the functional field in our example is equipped with
a
global sequence
made up of
two sub-sequences
. Each sub-sequence, is in turn,
made up of
schemas of definition*
at which level the actual task of analysis or
description of a certain type of object is carried out. Indeed, as Figure 4.2 shows,
each of the two sub-sequences:
- relates to a
specific type of object from the domain of reference
: the first sub-
sequence relates to the type of objects [Civilization] and the second to the type of
objects [Cultural construct];
- integrates a
procedure of description*
(each procedure being made up of
various specific
activitiesofdescription
) which through using the analyst carries out
his task of analysis devoted to a knowledge object: the first sub-sequence integrates
the procedure of so-called
free
description (used to inform the conceptual term
[Civilization]); the second integrates the procedure of so-called
controlled
description (used to inform the conceptual term [Cultural construct].
Figure 3.2 demonstrates that the conceptual term [Civilization] can be informed
by the four activities of description which together make up the procedure of
free
description
- a procedure which will be presented in greater detail in Chapter 9:
1 See http://semiolive.ext.msh-paris.fr/arc/.
