Project Basics Tags Used in Events

Next, you’ll make a selection about the project’s public accessibility. Selecting a Private Repository ensures that the project is not published online. You can switch this access setting later.

To create an event in AVAnnotate, you need some information about the audiovisual event itself. If you already have a IIIF manifest for the audiovisual event, select “Import Manifest” and paste in the reference. If you do not have a IIIF manifest yet, we’ll create one now directly in AVAnnotate.

IIIF is a framework for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Creating IIIF manifests allows for the metadata associated with an AVAnnotate project (e.g., rights information, audiovisual materials, annotations, etc.) to be easily shared and reproduced.

Select “Create Manifest” and provide a label for your event. Next, add at least one audiovisual item you’d like associated with the event. You should indicate whether the item is audio or video, include the label, and then paste the direct link to the media file. Unlike a URL to a webpage that may end in .com, for example, direct links should always end in the file format (.mp3, .mp4, .wav, etc.).

To access a direct link to event media, we recommend locating or uploading the file to the Internet Archive, and then copying the .mp3, .mp4, .wav, etc. from the gray “Download Options” box.

The exception to this rule concerns links from platforms such as Youtube; AVAnnotate can handle a URL to a YouTube video when creating an event.

Navigate to AVAnnotate’s documentation. Then, go to the Projects tab and you will see the Annotation Spreadsheet Template under the Bulk Uploading section. Select the hyperlink, and then make a copy of the file by selecting File and then Make a Copy. Don’t delete the headers in row 1.

In the Site Builder tab, select “Add Page,” and then “Blank Page.” What this will do is create a fully customizable page, which you can use to differently showcase the audiovisual events you’ve already created in your project, or build out new pages with essays, images, or other media related to your project. You can also use a custom page to create a bibliography, compare clips from your AV events, or display your AV events alongside other related media.

Once you’ve created the blank page, go ahead and give it a title. You can edit the page title at any time. You can also assign the new blank page a “parent” page. When you create a new blank page, it will not be associated with a particular event in your project until you manually assign it via the Parent Page dropdown menu. Selecting “No Parent” will let this new page stand alone in the project. Selecting a parent for the new page will subordinate the new page so that it appears under another page in the project’s Table of Contents.

If, for example, I was using this blank page to feature additional media that I want to associate with a particular event, I would select the AV event’s existing page as the parent of this new page. In this way, the blank page feature can be used to structure a project and create relationships between different pages.

This video will walk you through how to customize the appearance of blank pages. To see examples of how others have customized pages in their AVAnnotate projects, see the AVAnnotate documentation and website.

For more information and next steps, please see the AVAnnotate documentation.