Video Annotation System

The Video Annotation System (developed by Vincent Dorie) is a web-based video annotation tool that allows users to add commentary to streaming video by attaching text to a time-stamped location in the video. Because the commentary is structured as threads, this allows users to provide additional commentary on the same topic or start a new thread at the same location in the video. Applications for this tool range from research to teaching; currently, the video annotation system is being tested in the fields of biomedicine and nanotechnology to explore potential societal and ethical implications within laboratory work settings.