Exploration de l’activité de publication et de recherche de vidéos sur une plateforme audiovisuelle académique en ligne

Abstract

Publishing and searching for videos online are two common human activities that remain under-investigated today. We investigated these two related activities through interviews with users of an online academic audiovisual database. Seven publication managers and eight users were asked to explain their goals and strategies for publishing/searching for videos in the database. The results show that the way publication managers represent the publication task, in its technical, editorial, documentary and knowledge organization aspects, has an impact on the users’ searching task, and more specifically on how they understand the collection and organization of knowledge, the location and identification of a resource, as well as the services supporting video viewing. These results suggest that different categories of consultation goals and modus operandi exist. The discussion examines the aspects that should be considered in the ergonomic design of this type of academic audiovisual database.

Keywords

• information seeking
• video browsing
• video retrieval
• audiovisual publication
• academic