Glossary of Terms

Project (Example)

• Conceptually: a set of related AV materials with contextual information (e.g., front matter, explicatory prose)
• Materially: a GitHub repository that includes collection IIIF manifests, web annotations, and web pages generated by Jekyll that present the project and items

Items (Example)

• Conceptually: an annotated audiovisual artifact that can be played online
• Materially: an item IIIF Manifest with a reference to an audiovisual file; one or more web annotation files; a web page generated by Jekyll for the item; and a Universal Viewer javascript application

Annotations

• Conceptually: might include metadata or commentary added by a user that provides additional description or explanation of an audiovisual object for a variety of purposes from facilitating access and discovery to teaching and sharing scholarship
• Materially: a JSON element (that is part of the AnnotationPage, see below) that includes a textual body and a target on the referenced audiovisual file

Layer

• Conceptually: a means of organizing annotations by category
• Materially: one or more WC3 web annotation AnnotationPage file(s) that contains the JSON annotation elements