SeaTube and Video Annotations: Collaboration Tools for UCH Interpretation

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

While video surveys of UCH sites provide dense data about states of UCH sites, archaeological interpretation of video data is labor intensive. Video annotations have been widely utilized as exploration tools in other ocean sciences, and we are just beginning to integrate them into maritime heritage projects. This presentation details a pilot annotation project of ROV video collected on Akagi, Kaga, and USS Yorktown lost during World War II’s Battle of Midway using a tool developed by ONC. SeaTube is a web-based annotation interface enabling replay of video, creating time-stamped annotations by a variety of domain expertise. Annotations are enabled with a search feature that enables users to quickly access the video frames of interest. Built over time at individual site, region, or vernacular typologies, annotation libraries and SeaTube help solve the accessibility and interpretive challenges of UCH video data.

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• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow