Audiovisual Archives Digital Text and Discourse Analysis

• Main Author: Stockinger, Peter (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London, UK Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISTE Ltd 2012
• Subjects: Audio-visual archives; Information storage and retrieval systems > Audio-visual materials; Discourse analysis; Corpora (Linguistics)
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• Physical Description: xix, 354 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-306) and index
• ISBN: 9781848213937

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 adaptation of the audiovisual data to the specific needs of a user or user group can be represented by small and closed "communities" as well as by networks of open communities around the globe.