Introduction to Audiovisual Archives

Chapter 7

Model of an Audiovisual Publication in the form of a Web Portal ¹

7.1. Introduction

Once the work of segmentation, processing (technical, montage, post-synchronization …) and analysis (description, interpretation, indexing per se…) has been completed, the audiovisual corpus is ready to progress to a new stage in the working process of creating and distributing a piece of cultural or scientific heritage (see Chapter 1) – the publication stage.

As described in the first chapter of this book, publication may be viewed as an automatic process which begins as soon as the analyst deems that his corpus is ready for distribution on the Web. In this case, the analyst sends a command to the technical system which underlies the ASW working environment. The system then takes care of publication the corpus according to a predefined publication model. However, the Publication Workshop in ASW Studio also anticipates the possibility of the analyst becoming an author (or of one person acting as an analyst passing the baton to another person playing the role of an author) to publish the pre-analyzed corpus in accordance with his wishes. In other words, and similarly to the two other workshops of ASW Studio, the Publication Workshop offers the author of a publication a number of options for “personalizing” the publication of an analyzed audiovisual corpus. This personalization, as explained in Chapter 8, includes e.g. choosing between several publication models, the (fairly restricted) ...