AdA Toolkit
In the AdA-project, manuals and working papers were developed that constitute the AdA toolkit – a film studies-based analysis framework.
The Manual: Annotating with Advene and the AdA Filmontology provides insights into potential applications of the Advene annotation software for film and media studies. It documents the stages of analysis through corroboration with the AdA Filmontology, an eMAEX-based analysis vocabulary developed within the project.
An overview of this machine-readable Linked Open Data vocabulary is presented in AdA-Filmontology – Levels, Types Values which can serve as an annotation companion book, but also as an inspiration for the composition of other film analysis vocabularies.
The AdA Template provides this film ontology as predefined vocabulary for video annotation in Advene.
The working paper Notes on collaborative annotation with the AdA Filmontology provides experiences and specific suggestions for concrete usage of the AdA Filmontology in project contexts where several analysts are working simultaneously with an extensive film corpus they wish to describe consistently.
The AdA Toolkit also includes video tutorials on annotating with Advene, working with the AdA Template and visualizing with its AdA Timeline, as well as on using the AdA Annotation Explorer and its server workflow.
Manual: Annotating with Advene and the AdA-Filmontology
by Yvonne Pfeilschifter, João Prado, Rebecca Zorko, Anton Buzal, Thomas Scherer, Jasper Stratil and Jan-Hendrik Bakels.
Version 1.0 (August 2021)
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AdA-Filmontology – Levels, Types, Values
by Thomas Scherer, Jasper Stratil, Yvonne Pfeilschifter, Rebecca Zorko, Anton Buzal, João Pedro Prado, Henning Agt-Rickauer, Christian Hentschel, Harald Sack, Matthias Grotkopp and Jan-Hendrik Bakels.
Version 1.0 (July 2021)
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Notes on collaborative annotation with the AdA-Filmontology
by Anton Buzal, Yvonne Pfeilschifter, João Prado, Thomas Scherer, Jasper Stratil, Rebecca Zorko and Jan-Hendrik Bakels.
Version 1.0 (July 2021)
Download the german version
Download the english version
Annotation software: Advene – Video annotation and hypervideo authoring
Aubert, Olivier / Prié, Yannick: Advene: active reading through hypervideo. In: Hypertext. Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2005), pp. 235–244.
Advene-Wiki: https://github.com/oaubert/advene/wiki (Manual, FAQ etc.)
Download (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
AdA-Template: The AdA-Filmontology as Advene-Template
As of July 2021
Videotutorial: Advene Basics
This video tutorial explains the basic structure and functions of the Advene annotation software. It is a quick guide for its basic setup. You will get introduced to the interface and key features, how to work with annotation types, how to create annotations and edit their content, how to use an automatic video analysis and different views for displaying the annotations.
The individual sections can also be viewed as separate videos here.
Videotutorial: Annotating with the AdA-Template
This video tutorial takes up the explanation of the Advene basics and focuses more on the step-by-step process of annotating with the Ada-Template: from downloading it, to annotating its systematic vocabulary to checking the resulting data.
Videotutorial: AdA-Timeline
This video tutorial shows how to visualize your annotation data with the webbased AdA-Timeline that the AdA-Template provides.
Videotutorial: AdA Annotation Explorer
This video tutorial explains the basics of the AdA Annotation Explorer in two parts: the first part is dedicated to the frontend – its visualisation, query and export options – and the second part to the backend and workflow: videos hosted on Vimeo are integrated into Airflow, where automatic video analyses can be performed and Advene annotation packages can be downloaded and uploaded.