Index

After a project’s pages are created, organized, and published using the Site Builder interface of the AVAnnotate application, an Index page is also auto-generated for the project and appears at the end of the project’s table of contents. The index page serves as a central directory for exploring a project’s published content through its tags and tag groups. By compiling all these terms into a single index, the page provides a comprehensive overview of the subjects covered across the project’s audio and video materials. The home page of the index is divided into tag groups, which appear in alphabetical order, with each group’s associated tags listed underneath. A number appears to the right of each tag, showing how many times it appears in the project.

Clicking a tag on the Index page opens the tag’s details page. This page lists all the project’s events with annotations that have the selected tag. Each event is represented by a rectangle divided into segments. If a segment has color, that means a tag from the tag group is present in that annotation. For example, if a segment in How Monster Mash Became the Ultimate Halloween Smash (2020) is orange, that means the annotation has a Horror Culture tag from the Context tag group. If a segment is black, that means that the annotation does not contain a Horror Culture tag. Moving the cursor over a colored section of the event reveals the tag from the tag group used, the beginning timestamp of the annotation, and the annotation itself.

Clicking on the play button to the left of an event’s title opens a player to play the AV item. Below the AV player are all annotations with the page’s specific tag.

For more information on the tags and tag groups used in the project, select the View Details button from the Index home page. Selecting this button opens the Tag Groups page, which lists the tag groups used in the project’s events. By default, all tag groups and Events are shown on this page. To focus on one or more tag groups, select the desired tag group(s) from the horizontal list before the Tag Groups used in Events heading. To unselect the tag group, click on the tag group again. Under each tag group are all events with tags corresponding to that group. Each event is represented by a rectangle divided into segments. Each segment corresponds to an annotation for the event. The more annotations an event has, the more segments it will have. If a segment has color, that means a tag from the tag group is present in that annotation. For example, if a segment in How Monster Mash Became the Ultimate Halloween Smash (2020) is orange, that means the annotation has a tag from the Speaker tag group. If a segment is black, that means that the annotation does not contain a tag from that particular tag group. Moving the cursor over a colored section of the event reveals the tag from the tag group used, the beginning timestamp of the annotation, and the annotation itself.

Moving the cursor over a colored section of the event reveals the tag from the tag group used, the beginning timestamp of the annotation, and the annotation itself.

For more details on the individual tags used from a specific tag group, select the View Details button next to the desired tag group from the Tag Groups page. Selecting this button opens the Context page for the selected tag group, which lists the tags from that group used in the project’s events. By default, all tags and Events are shown on this page. To focus on one or more tags, select the desired tag(s) from the horizontal list before the page’s heading. To unselect the tag(s), click on the tag(s) again. Like on the Tag Groups page, each event is represented by a rectangle divided into segments. Each segment corresponds to an annotation for the event. The more annotations an event has, the more segments it will have. If a segment has color, that means a tag from the selected tag group is present in that annotation. For example, if a segment in ABC Kids: Monster Mash (1991) is purple, that means the annotation has the Speaker tag Ross Higgins. If a segment is black, that means that the annotation does not contain a tag from that particular tag group.

Moving the cursor over a colored section of the event reveals the tag from the tag group used, the beginning timestamp of the annotation, and the annotation itself.