1. XML Editors
2. Video Encoders
3. Fair Use Disclaimer
4. Other Video Annotation Projects
5. Text Annotation Projects
6. Other Digital Humanities + Film Studies Projects
XML files for ClipNotes may be produced in a dedicated XML editor or a normal text editor. Either way, XML files must a.) adhere to the proper format, and b.) be saved in .xml format. We recommend Komodo because it is free, multi-platform, and easy to use. Check our XML guide for images of Komodo.
- Komodo Edit – free, multi-platform, has macros (easy to make automated scripts)
- Microsoft XML Editor – free, PC only
- Serna Free – free, multi-platform
- Sublime Text – free, multi-platform, has macros
- Notepad++ – free, PC only, has macros
- TextMate – free, Mac only, has macros
- Textwrangler – free, Mac only, no macros
- Oxygen – not free, multi-platform, what the TEI suggests
A variety of programs can encode video files for ClipNotes from DVDs. Make sure you’re encoding in a format that is compatible with your operating system. We recommend using Handbrake – it’s free, multi-platform, and converts to mp4. Read our guide on using Handbrake to encode video files. We also recommend AnyDVD for encrypted DVDs.
- Handbrake – free, multi-platform, converts to mp4, handles some encryption
- AnyDVD – not free, Win, handles all encryption, can work in conjunction with Handbrake
- DVD Decrypter – free, Win, discontinued, handles some encryption
- MPGStreamclip – free, Win/OSX
- Freemake Video Converter – free, Win
- Virtualdub – free, Win
- DVDShrink – free, Win, discontinued
- MakeMKV – free trial, Win/OSX
- ImgBurn – free, Win
- Tipard DVD Ripper – not free, Win/OSX
- DVDFab HD – Win/OSX
ClipNotes requires you to encode a video file from a DVD, a practice that occupies a tenuous legal grey area, depending on your country and legal regime. Backing up a DVD copy for personal use is often allowed, as is the use of video in educational contexts, though the breaking of decryption in order to make the copy is often illegal. Currently in the United States, there is an exception to the DMCA that allows DVD decryption for educational use. We recommend you investigate fair use and intellectual property protections in your country before proceeding with ClipNotes. Here are some resources about fair use:
Cinema and Media Studies Resources
- The Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Best Practices for Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators
- Fair Use and Media Studies in the Digital Age
- Fair Use for Videographic Criticism
- The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
- The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
- Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
- Visual Resources Association’s Statement of the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study
University and Library Resources
- UCLA Library Copyright and IP Resources
- UCLA Copyright for Creators Resource Guide
- UC Copyright Education: Fair Use
- Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center: Extensive informational Web site from the Stanford University Libraries
- Cornell Copyright Information Center
- Columbia University Fair Use Checklist
- The Code of Best Practices for Academic and Research Libraries
- Copyright Advisor Network
- Exceptions for Instructors in U.S. Copyright Law
United States Copyright Resources
- U.S. Copyright Law: Fair Use
- TEACH Act Toolkit: Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act
- Copyright Terms and the Public Domain
Organizations
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – “Defending Your Rights in the Digital World”
- Creative Commons – “nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.”
4. Other Video Annotation Projects
ClipNotes specializes in annotating full-length films on a device or computer, from a cinema and media studies perspective. Check out these other projects that also facilitate video annotation.
- SocialBook – an online reading platform that allows public, group, and private commenting on video, audio, and text; Institute for the Future of the Book
- Scalar – born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing and presentation platform; USC
- EVIA Digital Archive Project – digital archive, annotation software, and publishing mechanism for ethnographic field video; Indiana University
- Open Video Annotation – extends the javascript tool Annotator from the Open Knowledge Foundation; Harvard
- VideoANT – web-based annotation system for web-clips; University of Minnesota
- Anvil – Annotation software; University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany
- Domeo – Annotation toolkit; Massachusetts General Hospital
- Mozilla Popcorn – social video platform for annotating, editing, presenting, and sharing web video; Mozilla Foundation
- Vidbolt – commercial social video platform for attaching time-specific comments to web videos and sharing with friends
These projects are developing new ways to make digital annotation more pervasive, functional, and accessible.
- Hypothes.is – open online platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge
- Open Annotation Collaboration – a project to enable standardized, accessible scholarly annotation across content repositories and annotation applications
- Open Annotation Community Group – organization developing a standard RDF-based practice for annotating digital resources
- Text Encoding Initiative – international consortium for standardizing how text projects are digitalized
- Annotator – open-source JavaScript library to easily add annotation functionality to any webpage
- Annotation Studio – suite of collaborative web-based annotation tools currently under development at MIT
6. Other Digital Humanities + Cinema and Media Studies Projects
There aren’t many research projects in the fields of film studies or cinema and media studies that use the methods of the digital humanities so we would like to highlight some of the innovative projects we consider our peers:
- Project Arclight – “Analytics for the Study of 20th Century Media”
- MediaCommons – “community network for scholars, students, and practitioners in media studies, promoting exploration of new forms of publishing within the field”
- Critical Commons – “public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.”
- Vectors – “Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular”
- Visualizing Vertov – “visualization analysis of the films The Eleventh Year (1928) and Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by the famous Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov”
- [in]Transition – “peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies”
- ScripThreads – “software tool for the digital analysis and visualization of screenplays”
- Bookworm – “Search for trends in the dialogue of thousands of movie and TV shows”
- Culturegraphy – “investigates cultural information exchange over time”
- Kinomatics – “the study of the industrial geometry of motion pictures… one of the first ‘big data’ studies of contemporary global cultural diffusion”
- Cinemetrics – “Movie Measurement and Study Tool Database”
- ACTION: Audio-visual Cinematic Toolkit for Interaction, Organization, and Navigation – “tools that use machine learning methods to yield stylistic patterns distributed among films and directors”
- Large Scale Video Analysis – “the use of real-time supercomputing as a means to explore large collections of moving image data”
- Stephen Mamber’s other projects: