This is an great project - and as you say very interesting.
If you like the idea of searching video content in this way you will also be
interested in the work of http://www.greencathedral.com/rd.html in
Cambridge.
They developed the 'Doovle' search engine. Wonderful Windfall Digital
exploited it in DNAi for Howard Hughes Medical last year. It really does
make a formidable resource.
http://iptv.hhmi.org/dnai-02.html the 'search' control is at the top left
of the screen (not a well designed page!)
cheers
Michael
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fiona
Romeo
Sent: 16 June 2008 17:48
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Subject: Crowd-sourcing video timestamping
Hello,
I figured you'd all be very interested in this new project from MySociety.
They've built a 'really simple, rather addictive system that lets anyone
with a few spare minutes match up a randomly-selected speech from Hansard
against the correct snippet of video.'
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/video/
Since they launched the system on 1 June, 16,691 clips have been
timestamped, which represents close to 50% of their entire video archive.
Here's a post about their progress:
http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/11/awesome-progress-on-video-timestamping/
And here's the science bit:
http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/12/theyworkforyou-video-the-flash-player/
Fiona
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