Chapter 16
The Configurational Building Blocks of Models of Description
16.1. Introduction
In the previous chapters, we have presented the meta-lexicon of conceptual terms* in the ASW universe of discourse* and the thesaurus which provides a whole range of pre-defined values for interpreting a particular conceptual term or configuration of conceptual terms.
In this chapter, we shall discuss how the conceptual terms and the thesaurus integrate with one another to form a model of description or a library of models of description particular to a given audiovisual archive.
In section 16.2, we shall recap the concept of a model of description – a concept which we have used throughout this book.
Sections 16.3 and 16.4 are given over to a presentation of what exactly a sequence of description is. We shall also see that every sequence of description has a place in a library of sequences of description. Two important points which we shall discuss in these two sections are, firstly, the question of defining a sequence of description using a canonic pair of schemas of definition* and, secondly, that of selecting and introducing a sequence into a model of description*.
Finally, section 16.5 will again present the level of schemas of definition for a descriptive model – schemas of definition which, as we know, are divided into two major categories: schemas of definition of the objects of analysis* and schemas of definition of the activities of analysis*.
16.2. Analysis of an audiovisual text ...
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