Hi Stuart, all, Very interested in the IIIF-developments as well. A colleague from the University of Amsterdam recently did a post on Digital Film Historiography < http://filmhistoryinthemaking.com/2016/03/16/update-digital-film-historiography-a-bibliography/> and when I asked about the tools in reference to this conversation replied:
Anvil was used by Adelheid Heftberger in the Digital Formalism project in > Vienna with really good results. In addition, the French tool Lignes de > temps developed by IRI at the Pompidou center has been used by several film > scholars and in education on several levels for video annotation, (it also > exists in English) and I think it might be relevant/useful for the purposes > described though it is not web-based from what I can see: > > http://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/outils/lignes-de-temps/ > > Stuart, hope all this brings you somewhat further to your original goal - would be curious to hear the results of your quest. Kind regards, Erwin On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Tom Cramer <tcra...@stanford.edu> wrote: > Stuart, > > It may be useful to also cross-post this question to the IIIF-discuss list > [1]. There is a lot of interest in developing a IIIF-like approach to > presenting video via a common API, and one that lends itself to web-based > annotation. This would allow theoretically allow users to annotate videos > with their tool of choice, and to be able to reuse / export the annotations > to any other tool. > > I expect this will be a topic at the next IIIF meetings, in New York City > (May 10-13, 2016). [2] > > - Thomas > > > [1] iiif-disc...@googlegroups.com<mailto:iiif-disc...@googlegroups.com> > [2] http://iiif.io/event/2016/newyork/ > > On Mar 16, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Greg Lindahl <lind...@pbm.com<mailto: > lind...@pbm.com>> wrote: > > This may or may not be relevant to the "annotation" that the original > poster had in mind, but the Internet Archive embedded video player > takes subtitles in the common SubRip .srt format, which is apparently > supported by many video players & subtitling programs. > > Instead of using this for closed captioning, you could use it for > annotations. Each video can have multiple .srt files, with the user > being able to pick which one is shown. I'm not 100% sure if our embed > code allows the embedder to choose one .srt to be shown by default, > that's where my knowledge ends. > > https://archive.org/help/video.php > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip > > -- greg > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 02:06:46PM +0100, Gregory Markus wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > A colleague of mine has just recently recommended Clipper ( > http://blog.clippertube.com/index.php/clipper-prototype-3/) they're > currently experimenting with it in the EUscreenXL project. > > Might be worth checking out for you as well. > > Curious as to what others will suggest as well. > > Cheers, > > greg > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Andrew Gordon <drew.s.gor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for sending out that document, Erwin. > > This is a really interesting topic and I feel like video annotation on the > web should be more of a thing. > > On top of what Erwin already provided (OVA looks particularly like A > project that might be good to look at for your needs) there are also: > > http://mith.us/OACVideoAnnotator/ - which is a proof of concept using the > open annotation specification (http://www.openannotation.org/). The > specification is format agnostic, intending annotatation of objects with > text, media, web resources etc. - the genius.com folks seem to be > involved. > > http://cowlog.org/ - pretty basic, but appears to get the job done and is > web based. > > There are scads of proprietary and open source desktop video > coding/annotating software that I will spare you the burden of going > through. Full disclosure, I work on a project whose sibling project is a > desktop video coding tool for psychology researchers. > > From my vantage point, video annotation software generally seems to be > developed around a specific set of user needs (a type of researcher and > research subject, for example). More specific target audience gets a more > robust set of tools targeted at those needs. > > The biggest issues come down to diversity of encoding for video and the > ability for operating systems to support the playback of them. This said, > the web has even more limitations around what video formats it will > support, but if you control the source of the video, this might not be such > a big deal. > > It would really be great to see video annotation for specifically DH > projects warm up. > > Have a look at all the resources and determine whether you think it might > be useful just to roll your own annotator using HTML5, some sophisticated > JS libraries for handling media, and hopefully wrapping in a standard like > the Open Annotation Data model (linked above). > > Would love to hear what others think/may have experienced. > > Drew > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Erwin Verbruggen < > everbrug...@beeldengeluid.nl> wrote: > > Dear Stuart, > > A few years ago we started an overview of video annotation projects and > tools for the EUscreen network. We haven't been able to turn it into a > state of the art document as of yet, but I'm hoping it would be useful > for > such an endeavour: > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CIL8oQjkAtUe2LGInrUgxpNzj5k9s17Mihz6UotIM/edit?usp=sharing > > Kind regards, > Erwin > > Erwin Verbruggen > Project lead R&D > > Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision > Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB > Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Stuart Snydman <snyd...@stanford.edu> > wrote: > > I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs > to > annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and > streamed on the web in our local environment). We are still gathering > requirements, but it needs to: > > > * have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better > on > the web but not an absolute requirement > * create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of > time, > and have those annotations associated with regions of the video image. > * annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc. > > We’d prefer open source solutions that can be integrated into a web > app, > but aren’t fully closed to alternatives. We’d strongly prefer a > solution > that supports open standards for annotation or is at least capable of > supporting open standards. > > I know there are many, many video annotation projects. What is the > current state of the art in web-based video annotation making and > viewing? > > Many thanks, > > Stu > > > > > > > > -- > > *Gregory Markus* > > Project Assistant > > *Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision* > *Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB > Hilversum | * > *beeldengeluid.nl* <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/> > *T* 0612350556 > > *Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr > > ᐧ