Introduction to Audiovisual Archives

Peter Stockinger is Full Professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris and also Research Director of ESCoM (Cognitive Semiotics and New Media Research Lab) of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, France.

• Introduction xiPeter STOCKINGERChapter 1. Context and Issues 1Peter STOCKINGER, Elisabeth DE PABLO and Francis LEMAITRE1.1. The ARA program – a brief historical overview 11.2. The scientific and cultural heritage of the ARA program 41.3. The working process 81.4. Knowledge engineering in the service of the ARA program 141.5. The digital environment and the working process 211.6. Analyzing an audiovisual corpus using ASW Studio 26PART 1: THE SEGMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION WORKSHOPS FOR AUDIOVISUAL CORPORA 31Chapter 2. The Segmentation Workshop for Audiovisual Resources 33Elisabeth DE PABLO2.1. Introduction 332.2. Segmentation of audiovisual corpora – a general presentation 342.3. Appropriation of the segmentation workshop 422.4. Some additional thoughts about segmentation 462.5. Perspectives relating to the segmentation workshop 46Chapter 3. Description Workshop for Audiovisual Corpora 49Muriel CHEMOUNY3.1. A general overview 493.2. The “metadescription” part of an audiovisual analysis in ASW Studio: the mark of the editor’s choice 513.3. The “identifying information of an audiovisual resource” part in the ASW description workshop 62Chapter 4. Analysis of Audiovisual Expression 67Elisabeth DE PABLO and Jirasri DESLIS4.1. Introduction 674.2. Analysis of the visual shot 684.3. Analysis of the sound shot 77Chapter 5. Analysis of the Audiovisual Content 87Peter STOCKINGER5.1. Thematic analysis 875.2. A concrete example of the description of a topic 905.3. The model of thematic description 985.4. The objects of thematic analysis 1025.5. Procedures of analysis 1075.6. The different components of a model of thematic description 1165.7. Libraries of models for the description of subjects 121Chapter 6. Uses of an Audiovisual Resource 127Muriel CHEMOUNY and Primsuda SAKUNTHABAI6.1. The “Uses” part of the ASW description workshop 1276.2. Producing a linguistic adaptation of an audiovisual resource 135Chapter 7. Model of an Audiovisual Publication in the form of a Web Portal 143Jirasri DESLIS7.1. Introduction 1437.2. The ArkWork homepage 1447.3. Thematic access to audiovisual resources 1467.4. Direct accesses to the audiovisual resources 1517.5. Access to the audiovisual resources by thesaurus 1567.6. Contextualization of the video 158PART 2: TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND NEW PERSPECTIVES 169Chapter 8. The ASW Digital Environment 171Francis LEMAITRE8.1. Introduction 1718.2. General presentation 1758.3. SemioscapeLibrary 1818.4. Semioscape 1948.5. Conclusion 201Chapter 9. The ASW Studio 203Francis LEMAITRE9.1. Introduction 2039.2. The common libraries 2049.3. SemioscapeData 2079.4. ESCoM Update 2099.5. ESCoM ffCoder 2109.6. ESCoM OntoEditor 2119.7. ESCoM-INA Interview 2129.8. ESCoM SemioscapeAdmin 2149.9. The ESCoM suite 2011 installer 2149.10. Semiosphere 2169.11. Conclusion 220Chapter 10. The Technical Development of the “Web Portal” Publishing Model 225Richard GUÉRINET10.1. The notion of “publishing module” 22510.2. RIAs 22810.3. The “Menu” publishing module 23310.4. The “Video player” publishing module 23510.5. The “contextualization of a video” publishing module 23610.6. The “temporal location” publishing module 23810.7. The “geographical location” publishing module 23910.8. Conclusion 242Glossary of Specialized Terms 243Peter STOCKINGERGlossary of Acronyms and Names 263Peter STOCKINGERBibliography 281List of Authors 285Index 287