Introduction to audiovisual archives /

• Other Authors: Stockinger, Peter
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London, UK : ISTE Ltd ; 2012.; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.
• Series: ISTE.
• Subjects: Audio-visual archives.; Audio-visual materials > Classification.; Research > Methodology.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > Cataloging & Classification.; Audio-visual materials.; Audio-visual materials / Classification.; Research / Methodology.; Electronic books.; Classification.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) : illustrations.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index.
• ISBN: 9781118566275; 1118566270; 9781118566206; 1118566203; 9781118562048; 1118562046; 1299188974; 9781299188976
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118562048

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 - videos, images, sound tracks, etc. - constitute as such only potential cognitive resources for a given public (or "target community"). 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 s.