Video Annotation Software (Mattotea)

Mattotea is a production-ready version of video annotation software with significant add-ins in terms of usability and functionality, offering researchers minimum-to-no impact on staff operations whilst delivering a tool that allows efficiency in work processes.

Objectives

• Storage of video segments in a managed set of Information Technology Infrastructure allowing multiple file types,
• Providing a tool to annotate video segments with an intuitive interface,
• Providing a web interface to allow viewing & editing annotations either collaboratively or administratively only,
• Allowing description metadata to have variable titles and to allow content to be written into Plone to allow the content management functionality.

Functionality

1. Play, upload and remove videos, supporting multiple file formats,

• FLV7 video,
• FLV8 video,
• H.264 video ,
• Youtube video (In progress),
• MP3 audio ,
• AAC audio,

 2. Add descriptive meta data,

       - Ability to have a default template for meta data headings,

 3. Add annotations (Start time, End time, Title and Comment),

       - Comment on annotations.

Mattotea can be utilised as a stand alone product or an implemented product into Plone offering additional functionality. 

 Architecture

Through the development of Mattotea as a plone product we are able to make use of the following:

    - Shibboleth authentication which federates access control to the Plone collaborative system,

    - Integration with Storage Resource Broker (SRB) allowing access to the files and annotations through other services,

    - Access to annotate not only SRB objects but plone objects as well.