Dear Stuart,

A few years ago we started an overview of video annotation projects and
tools for the EUscreen network. We haven't been able to turn it into a
state of the art document as of yet, but I'm hoping it would be useful for
such an endeavour:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CIL8oQjkAtUe2LGInrUgxpNzj5k9s17Mihz6UotIM/edit?usp=sharing

Kind regards,
Erwin

Erwin Verbruggen
Project lead R&D

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB
Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Stuart Snydman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs to
> annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and
> streamed on the web in our local environment).  We are still gathering
> requirements, but it needs to:
>
>
>   *   have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better on
> the web but not an absolute requirement
>   *   create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of time,
> and have those annotations associated with regions of the video image.
>   *   annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc.
>
> We’d prefer open source solutions that can be integrated into a web app,
> but aren’t fully closed to alternatives.  We’d strongly prefer a solution
> that supports open standards for annotation or is at least capable of
> supporting open standards.
>
> I know there are many, many video annotation projects.  What is the
> current state of the art in web-based video annotation making and viewing?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Stu
>
>