Re: Congressional streams mirrored

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jonah Bossewitch <jonah () ccnmtl columbia edu>
Date: March 3, 2007 5:37:17 AM JST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: smb () cs columbia edu, Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Congressional streams mirrored

Hi Dave,

Thanks for posting my comments - I think the wrong message ended up  
on the mailing list. Carl had replied to an email that never went  
through - this one

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No conversation on the availability of c-span footage would be  
complete without reference to the metavid project:

http://metavid.ucsc.edu/

They are valiantly attempting to openly archive the footage by  
legally capturing it while it is still in the public domain. They  
have worked hard to sort out many of the legal/IP issues.

I believe they are currently operating under a very small grant from  
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/ , but their efforts should surely  
be supported.

Carl - perhaps you might consider coordinating your efforts with  
theirs, as the toolset might be more powerful for finding footage  
than simple tagging.

Now, just imagine bringing this kind of technology to bear on this  
archive - http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/.  This is a group for  
whom searching and indexing video is last decades problem, and they  
are off and running auto-classifying behavior and content with  
machine learning.

best,
/Jonah
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This message included links to the sunlightfoundation and the  
informedia project, both of which may be of interest to the list.  
Anyway, not a big deal, but Carl's reply was out of context, since  
the original never made it through.

Anyway, have a good one,
/jsb


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Jonah Bossewitch
Senior Technical Architect
ccnmtl.columbia.edu
jonah at ccnmtl dot columbia dot edu
212.854.1815
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On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Carl Malamud wrote:

> > No conversation on the availability of c-span footage would be
> > complete without reference to the metavid project:
> >
> > http://metavid.ucsc.edu/
> <snip>
>
> > Carl - perhaps you might consider coordinating your efforts with
> > theirs, as the toolset might be more powerful for finding footage
> > than simple tagging.
>
> Heh ... I'm an official advisor to metavid.  Drove down
> to meet them at eff two weeks ago, drove down to santa
> cruz to do another ftf last week.
>
> Metavid is cool ... I hope the foundations do the right
> thing and fund these guys.
>
> Carl
>
> P.S. Dave ... fine to post.  :)


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