Advene as a tailorable hypervideo authoring tool: a case study

Audiovisual documents provide a great primary material for analysis in multiple domains, such as sociology or interaction studies. Video annotation tools offer new ways of analysing these documents, beyond the conventional transcription. However, these tools are often dedicated to specific domains, putting constraints on the data model or interfaces that may not be convenient for alternative uses. Moreover, most tools serve as exploratory and analysis instruments only, not proposing export formats suitable for publication. We describe in this paper a usage of the Advene software, a versatile video annotation tool that can be tailored for various kinds of analyses: users can define their own analysis structure and visualizations, and share their analyses either as structured annotations with visualization templates, or published on the Web as hypervideo documents. We explain how users can customize the software through the definition of their own data structures and visualizations. We illustrate this adaptability through an actual usage for interview analysis.