A Working Environment for Management and Exploitation of Audiovisual Archives – ASA-SHS Project

Abstract

This document describes the working environment developed by ESCoM laboratory (Equipe Sémiotique Cognitive et Nouveaux Médias, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) during the ASA-SHS project (Audiovisual Semiotic Workshop for Human and Social Sciences). ASA-SHS is a R&D project financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR, Programme Blanc 2008) and targets to develop strategies of indexing and semiotic description for audiovisual resources in Social and Human Sciences. The environment developed by ESCoM is a complete environment for managing, describing and publishing audiovisual documents for research and learning. It consists more particularly in tools, resources and distant services for: 1/Management of audiovisual documents, 2/ Management of ontological resources, 3/Semiotic description of documents, 4/Publishing of documents in web portals, 5/Exploitation of documents in the form of publications dedicated to specific uses.