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in the audiovisual corpora analyzed. This is a fairly popular approach to access the
textual content of digital archives and libraries [GUE 11; LEM 11b; DES 11d].
However, there is a third form of contextualization which comes under the
general umbrella term of
thematic contextualization
. This third form explicitizes the
context - social or institutional, historical or cultural, epistemological, etc. - of the
knowledge object described beforehand. We have not systematically developed this
third form of contextualization. For the moment, we use it only in the context of the
description of subjects which deal with the domains or objects or research in human
and social sciences. For instance, Austrian literature from the late 19
th
Century and
the first half of the 20
th
Century obviously constitutes the topic of a great many
researchers and concrete research activities. However, thematic contextualization of
the object of research here enables a researcher's particular interest in that object, his
objectives and his theoretical references, to be explicitized. Thus, it is an extremely
important form of contextualization which could, in the long term, enable us to
better profile and hierarchize the results obtained following information requests
(
àla
Google) of the type “
identify all textual and audiovisual resources which deal
with Austrian literature at the end of the 19
th
Century and the first half of the 20
th
as
anobjectofresearch(historical,aesthetical,semiological,etc.)
”.
Section 6.2 briefly describes the problem of contextualizing an object dealt with
in an audiovisual text by way of its spatial location. Section 6.3 deals with
geopolitical location and, more specifically, location by country, which is the most
usual form. In section 6.4, we again briefly look at geographical (physical) location
as such, i.e. location in what is known as natural space.
Sections 6.5 to 6.7 discuss the temporal but also historical location of the
subjects and themes mentioned in an audiovisual text.
Finally, section 6.8 offers a brief discussion relating to a concrete example of
thematic contextualization.
6.2.Contextualizationbyspatiallocation
One of the main forms of contextualization of a knowledge object thematized in
an audiovisual text being described by the analyst is its location in space. Given the
nature of our working audiovisual corpora (audiovisual resources documenting
domains of knowledge which correspond to the various experimentation workshops
of the ASW-HSS project - domains such as cultural diversity, heritage and
archaeological research, or even literary heritage), certain forms of spatial location
are very present whereas others are not. Thus, “geographical” contextualization in
the broader sense of the term is clearly omnipresent in our working corpora, whereas
