As of December 2024, AudiAnnotate project is retired and will not be updated. This page is an archive of previous project work. If you are interested in creating digital exhibits and editions with AV materials using IIIF, GitHub and Jekyll pages, please visit the AV-Annotate project.
AudiAnnotate is a project to publish and share annotations on audio files using IIIF and GitHub Pages.
Preferred citation: Brumfield, Ben, Brumfield, Sara, Clement, Tanya. AudiAnnotate. 1.0 Brumfield Labs and High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship. 17 September 2019.
Using AudiAnnotate
- Getting Started: Workflow Documentation and Demonstration Videos
- Classroom QuickStart Guide for teaching with AudiAnnotate
Call for Projects
Example Projects
Audio
- SpokenWeb Anthology, edited by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Tanya Clement
- Anne Sexton, Sweetbriar College, 1966, annotations and transcription by Tanya Clement
- Improving Gentle Transcription Using SENT Metadata Structure, from SpokenWeb, annotations by Kylie Warkentin
- Zora Neale Hurston’s WPA field recordings in Jacksonville, FL (1939), annotations and transcription by Tanya Clement
- Example audio manifest created by Bethany Radcliff
- BWFMetaEdit example from “My dear mother, don’t you cry; Soldier’s lament; Bandit song at the Library of Congress
- Oral history example “Oral Histories and the Pocket Desert” by Rachel Pickard
- Podcast example “The Last Archive Annotations” by Ali Gunnells
- Bilingual example in Spanish “Los Sonidos de una Guerra Civil: Los reportajes de violencia en las transmisiones de Radio Venceremos: El Salvador, 1981-1990” and English “The Sounds of War: The Violence Reported in Radio Venceremos Broadcasts, 1981-1990”, by Vera Burrows and edited by Luke Sumpter
Video
- Aviary Edition: The Virtual Poem Embodied on Screen, annotations by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth
- Comparison Screen for Shoes annotations by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Luke Sumpter
- A Digital Florilegium, annotations and digital edition by Luke Sumpter
- Camille, annotations by Janet Reinschmidt
- Furious Flower Poetry Center Transcriptions, annotations and transcriptions by Evan Sizemore
- The Kindergarten Teacher, annotations by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth
In the Classroom
- Lesson Plans and Introductory Resources
- Example Project: Example Sensitive Audio Lesson: John Beecher, McComb “Criminal Syndicalism” Case, from the Harry Ransom Center’s John Beecher Sound Recordings Collection, annotations and transcription by Kylie Warkentin and Bethany Radcliff
Other Resources
- AudiAnnotate Guide to Annotating Film and Video Using Terminology Standard to Film Criticism and Production by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Janet Reinschmidt
- List of Audio Annotation Standards and Frameworks compiled by Bethany Radcliff and Kylie Warkentin
- IIIF Resources and Examples
- Transcription Guidelines
- Virtual Workshop
- How to search Github for Annotations on Specific Manifests
Funding
- American Council of Learned Societies
- Mellon Foundation
Workshops
- Wintermeier, Trent and Turner, Sam. “AVAnnotate.” Music Encoding Conference. Zoom. May 2024.
- Clement, T., Wintermeier, T., Turner, S. “AVAnnotate: Curating AV Digital Exhibits with IIIF and the Gloria Anzaldúa and Stella Adler Archives.” Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Austin, Texas. May 2024.
- Clement, T., Bursztajn-Illingworth, Z., and Wintermeier, T. “Just In Time: AudiAnnotate: A Timely Method For Annotating Literary Recordings,” 2024 Modern Language Association Conference, Zoom, January 2024.
- Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Trent Wintermeier, “Creating and Sharing Digital Exhibits and Editions with AVAnnotate,” Learn@DLF (Digital Library Federation annual conference), St. Louis, Missouri, November 2023.
- Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Trent Wintermeier, “Creating Digital Exhibits with the Voces Oral History Archive,” for J381 Qualitative Interviewing taught by Professor Maggie Rivas Rodriguez, Department of Journalism and Media, University of Texas, Austin, September 2023.
- Zoe Bursztajn-Illlingworth, “Annotating Film Form in Meshes of the Afternoon,” for E381 Literature and Film taught by Professor Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin, September 2023.
- Tanya Clement, Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Trent Wintermeier, Vera Burrows. “AudiAnnotate Workshop with Radio Venceremos, Rebel Radio Station and SpokenWeb: Using IIIF with AV to Build Editions and Exhibits.” Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Conference, University of Graz, Graz, Austria, July 2023.
- Wintermeier, Trent. “Introduction to Annotating Audio and Video with AudiAnnotate,” University of Texas Libraries Digital Humanities Workshop Series, University of Texas, Austin, 10 March 2023.
- Bursztajn-Illingworth, Zoe and Clement, Tanya. “AudiAnnotate Collaborative Listening Workshop,” Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Sound Studies Lab, Harvard University, 27 February 2023. *Clement, Tanya. AudiAnnotate Workshop, Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) Virtual Conference, June 2023.
- Clement, T., Ben Brumfield, and Sara Brumfield. “AudiAnnotate AWE Project with IIIF.” Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) Virtual Conference, June 2021.
- Voss, Kayleigh. “AudiAnnotate Extensible Workflow for Sharing Annotated AV Using IIIF IIIF Workshops,” Virtual Presentation, June 2022.
- Voss, Kayleigh. “Creating New Projects with AudiAnnotate,” The SpokenWeb Sound Institute (SSI), Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. May 2022.
- Sizemore, E. and Clement, T. “Introduction to AudiAnnotate: A Tool for Transcribing and Annotating Audiovisual Content,” James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States. 4 April 2022.
- Voss, Kayleigh. “Annotating Audio and Video with AudiAnnotate” Digital Humanities Workshops @PCL, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin. April 2022.
- Clement, T., Brumfield, B., Brumfield, S., Radcliff, B., Warkentin, K., AudiAnnotate Workshop, virtual version, Digital Humanities Conference, Ottowa, CA, July 2020.
- Radcliff, B and Warkentin, K. AudiAnnotate Workshop. SpokenWeb Consortium Virtual Workshops Thursday, May 28, 2020 12-2pm CST
- AudiAnnotate Workshop, Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, May 2020.
- AudiAnnotate Text Annotation Workshop, Harry Ransom Center, November 2019.
- “Digital Audio Archives Workshop,” Historical Poetics Now Conference. University of Texas, Austin. November 2019.
Reports
This survey was produced as part of the Andrew W. Mellon-funded AudiAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow (AWE) project in order to better understand how and why students, teachers, information professionals, and others annotate audiovisual content. It is clear from the participant responses that there is an active community annotating audiovisual content for a variety of reasons, using a variety of tools. The survey confirms and further informs the project team’s understanding of the current audiovisual annotation landscape and supports the grant’s premise that there is a broad need for a workflow that supports collaborative editing, flexible modes of presentation, and permissions control. To support these needs, the AudiAnnotate project is developing AWE, a documented workflow using the recently adopted IIIF standard for audiovisual materials that will help libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), scholars, and the public find, access and use audiovisual cultural heritage items.
In the first year of the AudiAnnotate AWE project we tested our hypothesis on how AudiAnnotate should work, worked with four scholars to publish AudiAnnotate-driven digital companions to thesis chapters and classroom lessons around sensitive audio material, shored up the software functionality supporting a single, basic audio or video digital edition, held workshops to try the software with a variety of users and materials, and conducted “deep dive” interviews to assess needs with our partner holding institutions. This report is a summary of what we learned from these interviews and a discussion of priorities for the coming year based on that input.
This report was written by Sara and Ben Brumfield. It investigates four digital humanities projects, a journalism project, a learning platform, two podcast note-taking apps, and two lyric annotation platforms. The report reviews lessons the project team considered applying to AudiAnnotate development with a detailed analysis of each project.
The SpokenWeb Digital Anthology was edited by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Tanya Clement. It is a collaboration between AudiAnnotate and SpokenWeb, a consortium of archives in Canada committed to the preservation and accessibility of literary audio recordings through digitization and critical engagement. The Anthology includes AudiAnnotate projects created by Trent Wintemeier (PhD Student, UT Austin), Matthew Kilbane (Assistant Professor, Notre Dame), Miranda Eastwood (PhD Student, Concordia University), Nadège Paquette (PhD Student, Concordia University), Rachel Pickard (Undergraduate Student UBCO), Karis Shearer (Professor, UBCO), Emily Murphy (Assistant Professor, UBCO), Teddie Brock (MA Student, Simon Frasier), and Zach Morrison (PhD Student, UAlberta). The report details how an AudiAnnotate collaborative project was designed and implemented through GitHub.