Cover -- Introduction to Audiovisual Archives -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Context and Issues -- 1.1. The ARA program - a brief historical overview -- 1.2. The scientific and cultural heritage of the ARA program -- 1.3. The working process -- 1.4. Knowledge engineering in the service of the ARA program -- 1.4.1. Some questions -- 1.4.2. Recourse to the semiotics of the audiovisual text -- 1.4.3. Metalanguage of description, models and scenarios -- 1.4.4. Models and scenarios of collection/prodution of audiovisual corpora -- 1.4.5. Models and scenarios for publishing/republishing -- 1.5. The digital environment and the working process -- 1.6. Analyzing an audiovisual corpus using ASW Studio -- PART 1: THE SEGMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION WORKSHOPS FOR AUDIOVISUAL CORPORA -- Chapter 2. The Segmentation Workshop for Audiovisual Resources -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Segmentation of audiovisual corpora - a general presentation -- 2.2.1. Example of segmentation of a scientific interview -- 2.2.2. Example of the segmentation of a conference -- 2.2.3. Exemplication of the segmentation of an amateur video -- 2.2.4. Example of the segmentation of an audiovisual report -- 2.2.5. Other possible segmentations -- 2.3. Appropriation of the segmentation workshop -- 2.4. Some additional thoughts about segmentation -- 2.5. Perspectives relating to the segmentation workshop -- Chapter 3. Description Workshop for Audiovisual Corpora -- 3.1. A general overview -- 3.2. The "metadescription" part of an audiovisual analysis in ASW Studio: the mark of the editor's choice -- 3.2.1. General overview -- 3.2.2. Focus on the "general" sub-section of metadescription -- 3.3. The "identifying information of an audiovisual resource" part in the ASW description workshop -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Audiovisual Expression.

4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Analysis of the visual shot -- 4.2.1. General overview -- 4.2.2. General description of the visual shot and analysis procedures -- 4.2.3. Examples of describing the visual shot of an audiovisual text -- 4.2.4. Some specific uses of the analyzed visual shots -- 4.3. Analysis of the sound shot -- 4.3.1. General description of the sound shot and analysis procedures -- 4.3.2. Example of analysis of a video described using the sound shot -- 4.3.3. Some uses for sound clips -- Chapter 5. Analysis of the Audiovisual Content -- 5.1. Thematic analysis -- 5.2. A concrete example of the description of a topic -- 5.3. The model of thematic description -- 5.4. The objects of thematic analysis -- 5.5. Procedures of analysis -- 5.6. The different components of a model of thematic description -- 5.7. Libraries of models for the description of subjects -- Chapter 6. Uses of an Audiovisual Resource -- 6.1. The "Uses" part of the ASW description workshop -- 6.1.1. The "genres" of uses of an audiovisual text -- 6.1.2. The target audience of an audiovisual text -- 6.2. Producing a linguistic adaptation of an audiovisual resource -- Chapter 7. Model of an Audiovisual Publication in the form of a Web Portal -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The ArkWork homepage -- 7.3. Thematic access to audiovisual resources -- 7.4. Direct accesses to the audiovisual resources -- 7.5. Access to the audiovisual resources by thesaurus -- 7.6. Contextualization of the video -- PART 2: TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND NEW PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 8. The ASW Digital Environment -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. General presentation -- 8.2.1. Management of roles and rights -- 8.2.2. The technologies -- 8.2.3. The working process in the ASW environment -- 8.3. SemioscapeLibrary -- 8.3.1. The abstraction layers -- 8.3.2. The objects layer -- 8.3.3. The data access layer.

8.3.4. The data processing layer -- 8.4. Semioscape -- 8.4.1. The database -- 8.4.2. The Web services -- 8.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. The ASW Studio -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. The common libraries -- 9.2.1. SemioscapeResources -- 9.2.2. SemioscapeUserControls -- 9.3. SemioscapeData -- 9.3.1. Ontology of work configuration -- 9.3.2. Static ontology -- 9.3.3. Metalexicon of conceptual terms -- 9.3.4. Domain ontologies -- 9.3.5. Listings of the ontologies -- 9.4. ESCoM Update -- 9.5. ESCoM ffCoder -- 9.6. ESCoM OntoEditor -- 9.7. ESCoM-INA Interview -- 9.8. ESCoM SemioscapeAdmin -- 9.9. The ESCoM suite 2011 installer -- 9.10. Semiosphere -- 9.10.1. SemiosphereLibrary -- 9.10.2. Customization -- 9.10.3. Multilingualism -- 9.10.4. Site maps -- 9.11. Conclusion -- Chapter 10. The Technical Development of the "Web Portal" Publishing Model -- 10.1. The notion of "publishing module" -- 10.2. RIAs -- 10.3. The "Menu" publishing module -- 10.4. The "Video player" publishing module -- 10.5. The "contextualization of a video" publishing module -- 10.6. The "temporal location" publishing module -- 10.7. The "geographical location" publishing module -- 10.7.1. The geographical location -- 10.8. Conclusion -- Glossary of Specialized Terms -- Glossary of Acronyms and Names -- Bibliography -- List of Authors -- Index.