AVAnnotate: Curating AV Digital Exhibits with IIIF and the Gloria Anzaldúa and Stella Adler Archives

This two-hour introductory workshop will teach participants how to use AVAnnotate (https://av-annotate.org/). First, participants will learn the AVAnnotate application, which starts with creating or using existing IIIF manifests, developing annotations, and building static web pages with GitHub Pages to present and share digital exhibits. Workshop leaders will teach through showcasing example AVAnnotate exhibits by showing the process used to create projects using recordings from the Gloria Anzaldúa collection at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and the Stella Adler film collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The Adler and Anzaldúa collections are significant case studies that demonstrate AVAnnotate approaches to developing interventions into practices around creating AV access at LAMs, which are often made less accessible because of cultural, privacy, or copyright concerns. Finally, participants will be invited to discuss protocols for accessing audiovisual artifacts at their respective institutions, and how applications such as AVAnnotate can facilitate engagement with AV collections.

AVAnnotate is an application and a workflow, designed by Dr. Tanya Clement and Brumfield Labs, which allows users to build digital exhibits of annotated audiovisual artifacts. AVAnnotate is free to use and leverages open-source resources such as GitHub and IIIF, making it well suited for archivists and librarians promoting accessibility and discovery with audiovisual archival collections held at libraries, museums, archives (LAMs), and other cultural heritage institutions. The workshop seeks to add to the digital toolkit for LAM professionals and researchers and to spark conversation about the changing nature of LAM AV archival practices for access and discovery.

BEFORE THE WORKSHOP: The presenters suggest you create a free GitHub account (https://github.com) and bring a laptop and headphones if available.