Introduction

AVAnnotate is a web-based application that uses free and open-source tools (Jekyll and GitHub Pages) to create static sites on GitHub with playable media, timestamped annotations, index terms, and contextual essays with images, text, and clips. Archivists, librarians, researchers, educators, and students use the AVAnnotate application to present and share context around AV. In addition, AVAnnotate ingests and produces IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) manifests making it interoperable and sustainable according to W3C web-based standards.

These guides are designed to help various stakeholders—institutions, researchers, educators, and communities—navigate conceptual, ethical, and logistical questions regarding how they engage with AV materials in order to build AVAnnotate projects across different contexts. This document is an encouragement to all parties to be talking openly about expectations and the needs of project creators and consumers.

These guidelines include

• Principles of Engagement around using AVAnnotate specifically and for creating contextual material more generally for audiovisual (AV) content outside of the contexts created within collection institutions.

• User Guidelines for contributors, collaborators, or creators/co-creators in the development of AVAnnotate projects. These guidelines are specifically for

  • Collecting Institutions
  • Researchers
  • Educators
  • Public

Additional Resources

Researchers creating projects with AVAnnotate should consult the following additional resources. the

• AVAnnotate Documentation which includes more technical “how to” instructions such as:
  • Get Started
  • Build a Project
  • Construct Collaborations
• Example Projects where users can find example projects around audio and video, created by institutions, researchers, and educators.