The document introduces audiovisual archives and libraries, explaining that they collect, preserve, and transmit cultural heritage through qualitative transformations of the audiovisual materials, such as segmentation, description, indexing, and translation, in order to make the resources more relevant to users. These processes turn data into metadata and information into knowledge. The document then outlines the contents of the book, which examines theoretical, methodological, technical, and practical approaches to exploiting digital audiovisual archives through repurposing existing content, building community archives, and using social media for sharing.

1. INTRODUCTION TO AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
Edited by Peter Stockinger, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France
Today, audiovisual archives and libraries have become very popular especially in the field of collecting,
preserving and transmitting cultural heritage. However, the data from these archives or libraries constitute as
such only potential cognitive resources for a given public. They have to undergo more or less significant
qualitative transformations in order to become user- or community-relevant intellectual goods.
These qualitative transformations are performed through a series of concrete operations such as: audiovisual
text segmentation, content description and indexing, translation, etc. These and other operations constitute
what we call the semiotic turn in dealing with digital (audiovisual) texts, corpora of texts or even entire
(audiovisual) archives and libraries. They demonstrate practically and theoretically the well-known “from data
to metadata” or “from (simple) information to (relevant) knowledge” problem, that obviously directly influences
the effective use, the social impact and relevancy and therefore also the future of digital knowledge archives.
Contents 5. Analysis of the Audiovisual Content, Peter Stockinger.
1. Context and Issues, Peter Stockinger, 6. Uses of an Audiovisual Resource,
Elisabeth De Pablo and Francis Lemaitre. Muriel Chemouny and Primsuda Sakunthabai.
PART 1: THE SEGMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION WORKSHOPS FOR 7. Model of an Audiovisual Publication in the form of a Web
AUDIOVISUAL CORPORA Portal, Jirasri Deslis.
2. The Segmentation Workshop for Audiovisual Resources, PART 2: TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND NEW
Elisabeth De Pablo. PERSPECTIVES
3. Description Workshop for Audiovisual Corpora, 8. The ASW Digital Environment, Francis Lemaitre.
Muriel Chemouny. 9. The ASW Studio, Francis Lemaitre.
4. Analysis of Audiovisual Expression, 10. The Technical Development of the “Web Portal” Publishing
Elisabeth De Pablo and Jirasri Deslis. Model, Richard Guérinet.
9781848213371 • November 2011 • 320 pages • Hardback • 234x156 mm • 145.00 $
DIGITAL AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
Edited by Peter Stockinger, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France
Today, huge quantities of digital audiovisual resources are already available through Web portals, online
archives and libraries, and video blogs. One central question is simply speaking how they can be used in
specific (social, pedagogical, etc.) contexts and what are their potential interest for target groups
(communities, professionals, students, researchers, etc.).
This book examines from a theoretical, methodological, technical and practical point of view the question of
the (creative) exploitation of digital audiovisual archives in especially three main directions of work:
- The repurposing and republishing of existing audiovisual data.
- The building of community centric audiovisual archives.
- The use of digital social media and Web 2 technology for the diffusion and sharing of audiovisual content.
Contents
PART 1: ANALYSIS, REWRITINGS AND REPUBLICATIONS 5. An Audiovisual Azerbaijani Cultural Heritage Portal for
1. Analyzing an Audiovisual Corpus of A Thousandand One Educational and Academic Use, Aygun Eyyubova.
Nights, Muriel Chemouny. PART 3: SOCIAL NETWORKS, WEB 2.0 AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION
2. Analyzing a Corpus of Traditional Bread Making, 6. Academic Communication via Facebook and Twitter,
Elisabeth De Pablo. Jirasri Deslis.
3. Republishing Audiovisual Resources, Peter Stockinger and 7. Uses for Digital Content Sharing Platforms, Jirasri Deslis.
Elisabeth De Pablo. 8. Uses for Content Aggregators and Community Networks,
PART 2: AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL Jirasri Deslis.
HERITAGE 9. Tracing Video Usage: The Potential of VDI,
4. An Archive on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Andean Francis Lemaitre and Valérie Legrand-Galarza.
Populations in Peruand Bolivia, Valérie Legrand-Galarza.
9781848213388 • November 2011 • 320 pages • Hardback • 234x156 mm • 145.00 $
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