Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART 1. THE PRACTICAL, TECHNICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT; Chapter 1. Analysis of an Audiovisual Resource; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Functionally different corpora; 1.3. Descriptive models; 1.4. On the activity of analysis of audiovisual corpora; 1.5. On the activity of indexation; 1.6. Some reflections on the subject of the theoretical reference framework; Chapter 2. The Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop (ASW) Studio -- A Brief Presentation; 2.1. A working environment for analyzing corpora of audiovisual texts.

2.2. Brief presentation of the ASW Description Workshop2.3 Four approaches to analyzing an audiovisual text; 2.4. Models of description and interactive working forms; Chapter 3. A Concrete Example of a Model for Describing Audiovisual Content; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Selecting the appropriate model from the library of descriptive models of description of audiovisual content; 3.3. The sequences in a model of content description; 3.4. Field of description and sequential organization of an analytical form; 3.5. The level of schemas of definition and procedures of description.

Chapter 4. Model of Description and Task of Analysis4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The structural organization of a model of audiovisual content description; 4.3. The canonic syntagmatic order of a form of description; 4.4. Types of analysis, analytical tasks, procedures of description and activities of description; 4.5. Particular tasks in analyzing the content of an audiovisual corpus; 4.6. Concluding remarks; PART 2. TASKS IN ANALYZING AN AUDIOVISUAL CORPUS; Chapter 5. The Analytical Task of ""Describing the Knowledge Object""; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. A simple example of referential description.

5.3. Thematic structure, topical structure and referential objects5.4. A library of sequences for referential description; 5.5. Alternative functional architectures to define sequences of referential description; Chapter 6. The Analytical Task of ""Contextualizing the Domain of Knowledge""; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Contextualization by spatial location; 6.3. Location and contextualization by country; 6.4. Geographical-physical location and contextualization; 6.5. Contextualization by temporal location; 6.6. Contextualization by historical era.

6.7. Historical contextualization and periodization6.8. Thematic contextualization; Chapter 7. The Analytical Task of ""Analyzing the Discourse Production around a Subject""; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Procedures of discourse production; 7.3. Anatomy of the description of discourse production around a subject; 7.4. Examples illustrating analysis of discourse production; 7.5. Textual and discursive assessment; PART 3. PROCEDURES OF DESCRIPTION; Chapter 8. Definition of the Domain of Knowledge and Configuration of the Topical Structure; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Some reminders and specifications.

Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting, preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data in these archives or libraries - videos, images, soundtracks, etc. - constitute as such only potential cognitive resources for a given public (or "target community"). One of the most crucial issues of digital audiovisual libraries is indeed to enable users to actively appropriate audiovisual resources for their own concern (in research, education or any other professional or non-professional context). This means, an adapta.

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