Quick Start: How to use AVAnnotate

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Step 1

Log into AVAnnotate with your GitHub credentials and create a new project

Navigate to the AVAnnotate application and sign in with your GitHub credentials. If you don’t have an account already, go to GitHub and create one by providing a username, email address, and password.

Select “Add,” and input information about your new project, including the project title, description, language, a URL “slug,” and collaborators.

Step 2

Add an Event

An “Event” in AVAnnotate can comprise single or multiple AV files and single or multiple sets of annotations. AVAnnotate will create or ingest a IIIF manifest for each event. Event pages can be auto-generated or created by the user.

Select “Add,” and input information about your new event, including the event label; item type (audio or video); AV label, URL, and duration; description; and citation.

Where to begin?

My AV files are online and I have a URL

You can link your AV file to your event in AVAnnotate using a URL. Typically, a direct link will begin as a web address and end with the file format, e.g. .mp3, .mp4, .wav, etc. but AVAnnotate will also take YouTube and Vimeo video links and some streaming formats.

Select “Create Item Manifest” in your project, and add the required metadata for your event. This includes a label, AV file URL, duration of AV, and optional description and citation information.

My file has a IIIF manifest

Some institutions provide access to a IIIF manifest. In these cases, you can put the URL for the manifest directly into AVAnnotate to import the information about your AV item.

Select “Import Existing Manifest” in your project, and input the IIIF manifest URL.

My file does not have a direct link or IIIF manifest

If neither a direct link nor a IIIF manifest are available, you can create your own direct link by uploading the audiovisual item to GitHub or the Internet Archive.

Alternatively, you can create an event without an AV URL. This event page will not feature a player.

I have multiple events I want to upload in bulk

Whether you have URLs or not, you can upload multiple events at once to create an “instant” project. Follow these steps.

Step 3

Add tags

Tags are labels used in the interface to index, organize, and discover topics in the annotations. Categories can be used to organize the tags in groups.

Step 4

Add annotations

Annotations can be added to each event. Annotations are user-created and correspond to a given timestamp point or range in the audio or video. Annotations contain information about the media and might include a transcript; captions; information about formal features of the media, like shot sequence, volume, or lighting; historical or cultural context; environmental noises such as fans or car horns; or conceptual notes or themes. Annotations often include tags for indexing.

Step 5

Add pages to build context around your events.

Users can create auto-generated pages for each event as well as design custom pages that include text, events or event clips with or without associated annotations, event or event clip comparisons, and images (that are available via URL). What appears on these pages is entirely up to the user; users may add an introduction or conclusion to the project; build separate sections of an accompanying analytical essay; add context or pedagogical implications of events and annotations; explain the annotation choices made in the project; etc.

Step 6

Share your AVAnnotate project with the world!

You can read more about how to use AVAnnotate here, including bulk uploads.

Explore more work created with AVAnnotate

Anne Sexton, Sweetbriar College, 1966

This an annotated recording featuring Anne Sexton reading at Sweetbriar in 1966. The recording is held as part of the Anne Sexton Papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. The annotations were created by Dr. Tanya Clement.

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