MyStoryPlayer, the audio visual annotation tool

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MyStoryPlayer, the audio visual annotation tool

MyStoryPlayer is the audiovisual annotation tools integrated in ECLAP. It allows users to be the central part in fruition of multimedia objects annotating them, and offers new solutions for educational and infotainment purposes. MyStoryPlayer is the engine behind the audiovisual Annotations in ECLAP. A stand alone version of MyStoryPlayer tool can be accessed at: http://www.mystoryplayer.org; in that case the videos are related to Lost story. It could be integrated in other portals and solutions. If you are interested in adopting MyStoryPlayer please contact us at info@eclap.eu. MyStoryPlayer is also featured by Europeana as one of the enriching tools in Europeana Professional.

As we are in a performing arts environment, let us show you some examples of application of such a tool. For example:

If a teacher wants to prepare a lesson for his students, synchronizing slides and video in the same environment, or adding some pictures or audio examples that can explain better the concepts of his lesson, with MyStoryPlayer he can do that!
If a user is owner of many multimedia objects of the same event, for example taken from different views, and want to relate each other and play them synchronously and in parallel on the same player, with MyStoryPlayer he can do that! (see also how to create automatic synchronization and sequences)
If a user want to connect events each other following some particular aspects like the characters, the dancers, the theaters, the music, the movie makers, ecc, creating a package of multimedia annotated objects connected by a leitmotif and visible in interactive way, with MyStoryPlayer he can do that!
with Social Graph: you can graphically see and navigate among the semantic relationships in ECLAP among content, users, collections, annotations, comments, groups, etc.
It is also possible to see the network of relationships defined by using audiovisual media by using MyStoryPlayer tools.

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The innovative part of MyStoryPlayer lies in the fact that no difference between media and the user’s annotation exists, because both categories are referred to multimedia objects and they are temporally connected on their timeline.Paolo Nesi stated that in some sense "MyStoryPlayer works on audiovisual as html pages do on text, in terms of navigation experiences".

MyStoryPlayer annotations allow to have multiple contemporary views and multiple choices on what to watch is provided to the user, thus giving him the freedom of building his personal narrative experience, that can be saved and shared with other user. You can even search for those experiences and/or for annotations. Every time the user chooses a video to be played, rectangles appear just below the temporal line to indicate the length of annotations according to the duration of the main playing video.

Small Tutorial

ECLAP annotated objects have a small icon 5, that you can click to see the 5 annotations performed on that content via MyStoryPlayer. It is one possible entry point to the annotation network and tool.
in the annotation environment you can navigate among them, where you like, among the whole set of connected/related annotations. Please note that, presently not all the content are related each other via the annotations, so that we have several groups of content that are annotated, enjoy to discover them!!, looking for and clicking on small icons !!!
VIDEO DEMONSTRATING how to navigate in the MyStoryPlayer stand alone please click here; see also the videos below.
VIDEO DEMONSTRATING HOW TO CREATE an annotation click here. see also the videos below.
see MyStoryPlayer annotations done in the following example click on this ANNOTATION
see another video demonstrating the MyStoryPlayer presented at Dario Fo event in October 2011 in Rome. click on

Read more on MyStoryPlayer:

User Manual on which you can see nice examples.
how to create automatic synchronization and sequences
Slides presented at the First ECLAP Workshop
Slides with audio and video, presented at the first ECLAP Workshop
Document describing MyStoryPlayer, Collections, Playlists: Content aggregator tools in ECLAP Project

Audio Visual Annotations

MyStoryPlayer, Audiovisual Annotation Tool, how to add annotations Demonstrating and Training about the usage of Audiovisual Annotation tools of ECLAP the MyStoryPlayer. Playing and navigating among annotations, save and share your experience. See more on http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/3748