2. 900731 Data Handling for Eye-in-the-Sea on MARS : AVED Data in VARS This page last changed on Apr 03, 2009 by brian. ## Loading AVED Data Into VARS Locate the URL of the XML file that you want to load into VARS. The easiest way is to: Open a web browser and browse to http://eits.shore.mbari.org/e/EITSprocessed Browse to the folder containing the XML you want to load. Right-click on the XML file you wish to load and select "Copy Link" SSH into Somniosus
       ssh somniosus.shore.mbari.org
3. CD to the EITS application
        cd /Applications/EITS/EITS-Standalone/bin
4. Run the loader
        ./gsh ../scripts/groovy/ingest_avedevents |URL|
Paste the URL you copied in place of URL above ## Annotating AVED Events with VARS Locate the URL of the Movie file that you want to load into VARS. The easiest way is to: Open a web browser and browse to http://eits.shore.mbari.org/e/EITSprocessed Browse to the folder containing the movie you want to load. Right-click on the file and select "Copy Link". Make sure you use the movie that ends with -results.mov (e.g. http://eits.shore.mbari.org/e/EITSprocessed/20090212/20090212T080539Z/20090212T080539Z-results.mov) Open the VARS Annotation application from http://somniosus.shore.mbari.org/webstart/varsannotation.jnlp At the bottom of the VARS window do the following: Login to VARS by clicking on User label Open the EITS Movie by click on the Video label In the dialog set the Video Source to be a QuickTime Movie Set the dive number as the date of the movie in yyyymmdd format (e.g. 20090212) Paste the movie URL into the Movie URL field ## VARS Applications The VARS Applications can be launched from http://somniosus.shore.mbari.org/webstart/

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