AVAnnotate Glossary

Annotation: Annotations are user-created and correspond to a point of time or a range of time in the audio or video. Annotations contain information about the media that might include a transcript; captions; information about features of the media, like shot sequence, volume, or lighting; historical or cultural context; environmental noises, like fans or car horns; or conceptual notes or themes among a wide range of possible topics. Annotations are optionally associated with tags, which allows for searching and indexing annotations across a project.

Annotation Set: Annotation sets refer to multiple sets of annotations that can be associated with a given media. Media that might refer to multiple annotation could include one annotation set in English and one annotation set in Spanish or different annotation sets for transcripts and caption annotations. Tags and tag groups can be associated with particular annotation sets, and annotation sets can be filtered separately on the published site.

AV Items: AV items in AVAnnotate refer to AV moving-image or sound artifacts (both digital and analog). In AVAnnotate, annotations are associated with timestamps that correspond to these time-based artifacts. AV items are playable in an AVAnnotate project when they have been digitized, are freely available online, and can be referenced as links. AVAnnotate does not store AV items. While users can still create and display indexable, time-stamped annotations for “Offline Media” such as Analog AV artifacts and digital AV artifacts that are not available online, these media cannot be referenced via links and are therefore not playable in an AVAnnotate project.

Event: An Event comprises single or multiple AV files, which may be optionally associated with annotations in a project.

Index: The index is a set of auto-generated pages that organizes and visualizes tag groups and tags across the project, allowing users to search, filter, and compare annotations, tags, and tag groups.

Pages: Pages are the building blocks of a project, and are either auto-generated or custom generated.

Project: The published project comprises the event(s) and page(s), and may also include annotations, tags, and an index.

Project Dashboard: The project dashboard is the backend management site for projects under development. The dashboard allows users to create projects, select projects to edit, edit project details, collaborate, and publish projects.

Tag: Tags are user-generated labels that allow indexing, organizing, and filtering topics in the annotations on the published site.

Tag Group: Groups can be used to organize tags.