| PackageDescription | Annotate DVDs, Exchange on the Net
The Advene (Annotate DVd, Exchange on the NEt) project is aimed
towards communities exchanging discourses (analysis, studies) about
audiovisual documents (e.g. movies) in DVD format. This requires that
audiovisual content and hypertext facilities be integrated, thanks to
annotations providing explicit structures on audiovisual streams, upon
which hypervideo documents can be engineered.
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The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily
create comments and analyses of video documents, through the
definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation
into automatically-generated or user-written comment views (HTML
documents). Annotations can also be used to modify the rendition
of the audiovisual document, thus providing virtual montage,
captioning, navigation... capabilities. Users can exchange their
comments/analyses in the form of Advene packages, independently from
the video itself.
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The Advene framework provides models and tools allowing to design and reuse
annotations schemas; annotate video streams according to these schemas;
generate and create Stream-Time Based (mainly video-centred) or User-Time
Based (mainly text-centred) visualisations of the annotations. Schemas
(annotation- and relation-types), annotations and relations, queries and
views can be clustered and shared in units called packages. Hypervideo
documents are generated when needed, both from packages (for annotation and
view description) and DVDs (audiovisual streams). |