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IainB:
I don't recall having come across the Knight Foundation before today.
This looks like a seriously useful new development, and a good working example of a forwards development in the use of Information Technology.
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Hundreds of thousands of TV news broadcasts on one website
May 21, 2013, 9:01 a.m.
The following blog post is written by Roger Macdonald, director, Television Archive; Brewster Kahle, digital librarian, Internet

We are seeing more and more public benefits arising from applying digital search and analysis to news from our most pervasive and persuasive medium— television. That’s why, we are thrilled to announce that the Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, is expanding our television news research library to make readily available hundreds of thousands of hours of U.S. television news programs for users to search, quote and borrow.

The expansion plan is being supported by $1 million in funding from Knight Foundation. With this support, we will grow our TV News Search & Borrow service, which currently includes more than 400,000 broadcasts dating back to June 2009, to add hundreds of thousands of new broadcasts. This means helping inform and engage communities by strengthening the work of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, documentarians, civic organizations and others dedicated to public benefit.With TV News Search & Borrow, these folks can use closed captioning that accompany news programs to search for information. They can then browse short-streamed video clips and share links to specific ones. The research library does not facilitate downloading, but individuals can watch whole programs at Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., or borrow them on DVD-ROMs.

Along with ramping up our current offerings, Knight funding will help us add new features and website enhancements to improve user experience, strengthen audience engagement and integrate with media partner collections...
Read more (here).
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Edvard:
Great interview with Brewster Kahle and a look inside the archive building.  Pretty neat!  :Thmbsup:

http://vimeo.com/59207751

IainB:
Great interview with Brewster Kahle and a look inside the archive building.  Pretty neat!  :Thmbsup:
http://vimeo.com/59207751
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-Edvard (May 22, 2013, 08:13 PM)
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Thankyou! I hadn't spotted that. Very interesting.    :up:

By the way, you can download the video from here.

IainB:
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NSA TV Clip Library
Posted on October 21, 2013 by Roger Macdonald   

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry.  Senator Ron Wyden May 26, 2011
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(Video clip of Senator Ron Wyden saying this)

Recent revelations of the extent of National Security Agency surveillance and weakening of our digital infrastructure give substance to the warnings of Senator Wyden and others. To assist journalists and other concerned citizens in reflecting on these issues, the Internet Archive has created a curated library of short television news clips presenting key statements and other representations.

NSA-issues TV News Quote Library
The experimental, Chrome and Safari only, library launches today with more than 700 chronologically ordered television citations drawn from the Archive’s television news research service. The TV quotes can be browsed by rolling over clip thumbnails, queried via transcripts and sorted for specific speakers. Citation links, context, links to source broadcasters and options to borrow can be explored by following the More/Borrow links on each thumbnail.

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