Stockinger Audiovisual Archives

Digital Text and Discourse Analysis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61409-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become verypopular especially in the field of collecting, preserving andtransmitting cultural heritage. However, the data in these archivesor libraries - videos, images, soundtracks, etc. - constitute assuch only potential cognitive resources for a given public (or"target community"). One of the most crucial issues ofdigital audiovisual libraries is indeed to enable users to activelyappropriate audiovisual resources for their own concern (inresearch, education or any other professional or non-professionalcontext). This means, an adaptation of the audiovisual data to thespecific needs of a user or user group can be represented by smalland closed "communities" as well as by networks of open communitiesaround the globe.
"Active appropriation" is, basically speaking, the use of existingdigital audiovisual resources by users or user communitiesaccording to their expectations, needs, interests or desires. Thisprocess presupposes: 1) the definition and development of models or"scenarios" of cognitive processing of videos by the user; 2) theavailability of tools necessary for defining, developing, reusingand sharing meta-linguistic resources such as thesauruses,ontologies or description models by users or usercommunities.
Both aspects are central to the so-called semiotic turn in dealingwith digital (audiovisual) texts, corpora of texts or again entire(audiovisual) archives and libraries. They demonstrate practicallyand theoretically the well-known "from data tometadata" or "from (simple) information to (relevant)knowledge" problem, which obviously directly influences theeffective use, social impact and relevancy, and therefore also thefuture, of digital knowledge archives. This book offers asystematic, comprehensive approach to these questions from atheoretical as well as practical point of view.
Contents
Part 1. The Practical, Technical and Theoretical Context
1. Analysis of an Audiovisual Resource.
2. The Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop (ASW) Studio - A BriefPresentation.
3. A Concrete Example of a Model for Describing AudiovisualContent.
4. Model of Description and Task of Analysis.
Part 2. Tasks in Analyzing an Audiovisual Corpus
5. The Analytical Task of "Describing the KnowledgeObject".
6. The Analytical Task of "Contextualizing the Domain ofKnowledge".
7. The Analytical Task of "Analyzing the Discourse Productionaround a Subject".
Part 3. Procedures of Description
8. Definition of the Domain of Knowledge and Configuration of theTopical Structure.
9. The Procedure of Free Description of an AudiovisualCorpus.
10. The Procedure of Controlled Description of an AudiovisualCorpus.
Part 4. The ASW System of Metalinguistic Resources
11. An Overview of the ASW Metalinguistic Resources.
12. The Meta-lexicon Representing the ASW Universe ofDiscourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stockinger, Peter