Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

AnnotateVid.Io is a web application where users create public or private video collections that can be annotated by invited users. Any user who has access to the collection can add annotations (a.k.a., events) to any video in the collection. The annotations can then be analyzed in order to discover novel insights about behaviors in the collection.

Each video is associated with a collection. In turn, individuals and events are associated with each video. Individuals are also associated with events, such that in any event, there is at least one actor with an optional one or several recipients/subjects.

Collection owners can customize the kinds of intake questions they ask of users for all three core objects: individuals, videos, and events, thereby allowing for great flexibility in the types of videos and behaviors that can be annotated.

During annotation, a user indicates when a behavior is begun, and then marks when that behavior is ended in the video. Data for the behaviors recorded per video and per collection as a whole are filterable and sortable by each custom attribute in the video. These filtered data could facilitate analyses of frequency, duration, success rates, or even association of various behaviors across time.