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-The goal of the AudiAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow (AWE) project is to accelerate access to, promote scholarship and teaching with, and extend understanding of significant digital AV collections in the humanities.
+We’re excited to announce another round of funding for AudiAnnotate under a new title “AVAnnotate” with a new website: https://av-annotate.org/. The basic (free and open source) infrastructure and goals are the same: to increase the use of archival audiovisual artifacts in research and scholarship.
 
-Please visit https://hipstas.github.io/AudiAnnotate/ project page for examples and documentation.
+AVAnnotate is the second phase of the AudiAnnotate project, which was supported by a Mellon Foundation grant awarded in 2020. The AudiAnnotate project included the development of the free and open-source AudiAnnotate web application to easily produce freely available web projects. These projects—which resemble AV-centered “editions” or “exhibits”—are a series of web pages, hosted on GitHub, that feature a linked LAM audio or video recording that can be played in the context of user-generated commentary in time-stamped annotations alongside introductory material and an index of concepts and terms, all of which provide for searching, browsing, and organizing annotations across recordings. The AudiAnnotate team has also produced guidelines, workshops, and proof-of-concept projects with LAM partners to serve as much-needed examples for working with AV artifacts. [i] AVAnnotate builds on the work of AudiAnnotate by developing the application to generate projects with a more interactive and full-featured environment for editing and annotating, with better support for video, and with more reusable software components. Just as importantly, AVAnnotate will elevate awareness and promote sustainability around issues surrounding AV access in libraries and archives; scholarly, pedagogical, and public use of AV and the IIIF standard; and the social and political contexts surrounding AV access and engagement in LAM collections.
 
-In response to the need for a workflow that supports IIIF manifest creation, collaborative editing, flexible modes of presentation, and permissions control, the AudiAnnotate project is developing AWE, a documented workflow using the recently adopted IIIF standard for AV materials that will help libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), scholars, and the public access and use AV cultural heritage items. We will achieve this goal by connecting existing best-of-breed, open source tools for AV management (Aviary), annotation (such as Audacity and OHMS), public code and document repositories (GitHub), and the AudiAnnotate web application for creating and sharing IIIF manifests and annotations. Usually limited by proprietary software and LAM systems with restricted access to AV, users will use AWE as a complete sequence of tools and transformations for accessing, identifying, annotating, and sharing AWE “projects” such as singular pages or multi-page exhibits or editions with AV materials. LAMs will benefit from AWE as it facilitates metadata generation, is built on W3C web standards in IIIF for sharing online scholarship, and generates static web pages that are lightweight and easy to preserve and harvest. AWE represents a new kind of AV ecosystem where the exchange is opened between institutional repositories, annotation software, online repositories and publication platforms, and all kinds of users.
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-AWE partnerships with institutions such as the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Library of Congress Labs, the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies  at Yale Library, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, and the SpokenWeb Consortium will provide use cases to test the workflow and demonstrate its benefits to users and LAMs, thus encouraging broad use. Use cases developed through these partnerships will demonstrate the different ways that LAMs use (or don’t use) DAMs;  the wide variety of humanities materials in AV formats from poetry performances to oral histories that cultural heritage institutions hold; and the range of restrictions that users encounter, from freely available AV streamed online to materials accessible to a consortium of institutions, to artifacts that are locked down in private collections. These use cases collectively demonstrate (1) researchers annotating materials held at multiple holding institutions and presenting these annotations as a single, free-to-access project, (2) researchers with privileges annotating restricted materials but sharing annotations publicly, (3) multiple researchers working together at different holding institutions to produce annotations authored by many, and (4) a holding institution harvesting these annotations to increase the information they can provide about their AV cultural heritage artifacts. Better understanding and documenting these use cases is key to broadening the use of both IIIF and AV materials. These and other use cases will be described and shared in detail at each AWE project partner workshop, in presentations at the annual IIIF consortium and the annual DH or ACH conference, and in online documentation for scholars and the general public.
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-Specifically, the AWE project will produce and share the following open source deliverables:
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-Advancements to the AudiAnnotate web application that will build on and transform the application into a collaborative AV commentary publication tool that will help users produce freely-available web pages and exhibits with an embedded media player (see AWE player below), hosted on GitHub Pages.
-Plug-ins for the Aviary platform for searching AV content to expose IIIF manifests and annotations at various levels of authentication. It will also provide an interface for ingesting external manifests and user-generated annotations.
-An AWE player as a reusable, standalone piece of code that runs a media player in a browser. It will present linked annotations and media at various levels of authentication, accommodating both freely available AV and AV with restricted use/copyright.
-Documentation for all incorporated tools as well as use cases (described below) that will illustrate the workflow.
-A workshop on AWE with training in creating IIIF AV annotations and AV exhibits.
-Scholarship on current user trends and ethical data practices with AV materials in collecting institutions including a report on the interviews and surveys AWE will conduct with users, conference presentations, and scholarly articles in Digital Humanities journals.
-Because AWE facilitates a IIIF ecosystem that can function in accordance with but outside of under-resourced LAMs, it can extend the capabilities of users and institutions beyond current workflows. Collectively, these deliverables will allow institutions, scholars, students, and the public to access, annotate, and share AV commentary and exhibits in a free and standardized way for the first time. 
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-People: Clement, Brumfield Labs, Aviary — the AWE team — are uniquely positioned to collaborate and extend their existing areas of expertise and current projects in developing a sustainable solution for annotating AV and generating the IIIF AV objects that will facilitate access to, use of, and the long-term preservation of AV. They have an extensive and proven record of collaboration and success. Brumfield Labs and the AVP Aviary team have deep expertise in IIIF and AV preservation and access, respectively, with much experience collaborating with cultural heritage institutions that typically do not have the resources to hire experts with their technical background.
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-AWE Team:
+AVAnnotate Team:
 
 Tanya Clement, Associate Professor, UT Austin
 Ben Brumfield, Brumfield Labs
 Sara Brumfield, Brumfield Labs
 Shawn Averkamp, AVP
-Bert Lyons, AVP
-Amy Rudersdorf, AVP
-Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Post-Doctoral Fellow, UT Austin
-Bethany Radcliffe, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
-Kylie Warkentin, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
-Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
-Janet Reinschmidt, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
-Evan Sizemore, Graduate Research Assistant, James Madison University
-Kayleigh Voss, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
-Trent Wintermeier, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
+Nick Laiacona, Performant Software
+Anindita Basu Sempere, Performant Software
+Sam Turner, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
+Alyssa Frick-Jenkins, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
+Jack Riordan, Graduate Research Assistant, UT Austin
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 Project Partners:
 
 Doug Boyd, Director. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Special Collections 
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 Steven Holloway, Director of Metadata Strategies, James Madison University 
 Jim Kuhn, Associate Director, Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin 
 Stephen Naron, Director of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Libraries
-Advisory Board
 
+Advisory Board
 Aaron Choate, Director of Digital Strategies, University of Texas at Austin Libraries 
 Jason Camlot, Professor and University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies, Concordia University, Montreal; PI, SpokenWeb Research Program
 Jon Dunn, Assistant Dean for Library Technologies at Indiana University, Co-Chair, IIIF A/V Technical Specification Group; Director of Avalon Media System