Renouveler l’étude des annotations vidéos à l’échelle européenne

The OASIS project (Open Audiovisual Science Innovation Scheme) aims to support and equip research in the social sciences and humanities involving audiovisual corpora. One of its main objectives is to deploy, at the European level, the use of free and open-source tools such as Celluloid, developed within the Huma-Num Consortium for the ANnotation, analysis and archiving of Video applied to Scientific Activities (CANEVAS).

Funded for a period of 24 months by the European cluster EOSC-OSCARS (European Open Science Cloud + Open Science Cluster’s Action for Research and Society), the OASIS project is hosted by UAR 3258 MSH Paris Nord. It is open to the integration of new French and European partners, particularly those aligned with the “Arts, cultural industries and creation” research axis of MSH Paris Nord.

The aim is to promote good practices and FAIR standards for the analysis of audiovisual corpora at the European level. The project brings together three partner universities in Belgium, Croatia and Romania to organise workshops designed to share tools dedicated to research in the social sciences and humanities on audiovisual corpora, by facilitating activities such as annotating, commenting on, analysing, mining, sharing and archiving videos.

The exploration of audiovisual materials is indeed a rapidly growing area of scientific research. While film analysis has long been widespread and institutionalised in film studies and history, it now concerns an equally broad range of academic disciplines, including sociology, media studies, education sciences, political science and theatre studies.

The OASIS project (Open Audiovisual Science Innovation Scheme) focuses on the analysis, enhancement, archiving, and dissemination of video corpora for research within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The project promotes Open Science methodologies and facilitates the development of innovative tools tailored for video research, ultimately enriching the research landscape.

For this project, we provided user-centered design and usage consultancy for the project website, which was later designed and developed by Timothée Goguely (who also designed and developed the website you’re currently browsing on…).