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Annotation Studio

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Whitepaper: “Annotation Studio: Bringing a Time-Honored Learning Practice into the Digital Age”

Description

Annotation Studio is an open source, web-based annotation application that integrates a powerful set of textual interpretation tools behind an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Users can upload their own texts, and annotate with styled text, video, images, and weblinks. To date, the project has been used with great success in disciplines such as Writing, Literature, Foreign Languages, Anthropology, Film and Media Studies, and others at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Barnard College, and Washington University. (Source)

Creator

HyperStudio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Text mining, Annotation

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Text annotation – Highlight texts to add annotation

Adding texts to an annotation

Adding media to an annotation

Biography annotation

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Mediathread

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Introductory video – Multimedia Annotation and Essays

Description

Mediathread is an open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based multimedia content. It interoperates with a variety of image and video collections (such as YouTube, Flickr, library databases, and course libraries), enabling users to lift items out of these collections and into a scholarly analysis environment. In Mediathread, items can then be clipped, annotated, organized, and embedded into compositions and other written analysis. (Source)

Creator

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Columbia University

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Data analysis, Annotation

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Analyze tool – Press to clip media to annotate, organize, share, and embed into essays and other written analysis

Video Annotation – Highlight certain part of the video to annotate

Image Annotation – Select an area of focus to annotate

Compiling tool – Embedding into essays or written analysis.

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Scalar

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Demo

Pathfinders – Experience of early digital literature

Description

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. Scalar can also be used to assemble and annotate video content, and combine in with text to create a rich media document. (Source)

Creator

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC)

Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform

Digital publishing, Annotation

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Scalar’s built-in media annotation tools

Media importer – Broad support for popular media formats

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