The VAST Collaborative Multimodal Annotation Platform: Annotating Values

In this paper, we present the VAST Collaborative, Multimodal, Web Annotation Tool. It is a collaborative, web-based annotation tool built upon the Ellogon infrastructure, adapted to the content creation and annotation needs of digital cultural heritage. With the help of an annotation methodology and guidelines, the tool has been used to analyse and annotate intangible artifacts (mainly narratives) with moral values. This paper presents the tool and its capabilities, and an evaluation study for assessing its usability.