Web Resources of the Week News and Current Affairs Streaming Media�United States
Searchable Broadcast Transcripts--United States
Here are only a few examples of streaming audio/video sites that might prove valuable for both content and as examples of streaming media focusing on news and current affairs. I'm planning on presenting a similar sample of Non-U.S. Resources next month. Part 1: Streaming Media The FeedRoom
View local television news content from several U.S. cities. A national site is available or go direct to local Feed Room sites. Btw, each FeedRoom offers a search tool. It's located to the right of the viewing screen and provides the opportunity to keyword search the short annotations written about each news clip. Material is available for a "few weeks" after airing. It's also very easy to e-mail a direct url of a clip. Local FeedRooms Bay Area, CA Birmingham, AL Chicago, IL (NBC 5) Chicago, IL (WGN) Columbus, OH Dallas, TX Denver, CO Hartford, CT Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA (KNBC) Los Angeles, CA (KTLA) Miami, FL Milwaukee, WI New York, NY (WNBC) New York, NY (WPIX, WB11) Philadelphia, PA Providence, RI Raleigh-Durham, NC San Diego, CA Seattle, WA
- National Public Radio Archive
Keyword search abstracts, limit by date/program and then listen to individual segments or entire programs online. Material for most NPR news programs back to 1996. Abstracts and links in this database are only accessible via the NPR site.
- NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) Video
Keyword search actual spoken words from the broadcast then view online. Uses Virage technology. Material back to early 2000.
- Speechbot
Demo project from HP/Compaq. Keyword search transcripts compiled using voice recognition technology from over 14,000 hours of radio programming. Listen online using RealAudio.
-- Part 2: Searchable Broadcast Transcripts--Fee Based Services Monitoring Services
I'll share more about these services in the future. Until then, take a few minutes to look at these fee-based services which utilize the closed-captioning, speech recognition, and other technologies. Most of these services also offer monitoring/alert services that can report in real-time or near real-time when a person, company, or anything else is mentioned on a broadcast.
- TVEyes
Limited demo version available for free. Also available, RadioEars.
- Medialink NewsIQ
- Shadow TV
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items) Science--Biographies Free Access During Beta-Test: BioMed Central Science Archive, Scientists Telling Stories
From the site, "Science archive is a new service from BioMed Central where scientists tell stories about their lives in science . During the beta-test you can watch and listen to Sydney Brenner and John Maynard Smith talk about their lives in science. See Also: Learn More via an Article From Managing Information
- Ready Reference Shelf
Counties and Cities--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census Full-Text, Online Today: County and City Data Book: 2000 Summary/Fast Facts ||| Direct to Full-Text
Text of book consists of numerous pdf files.
- Citation Indexing--Lists and Rankings
Source: Institute for Scientific Information Science in the United States, 1997-2001 Electrical & Electronic Engineering: Most Prolific U.S. Universities, 1997-2000
- Multimedia Searching--Audio FindSounds.Com
A few words about FindSounds.Com in today's New York Times is worth mentioning since we are multimedia "heavy" today. From the article, "The site is well designed and deploys some impressive technology. For instance, each search result offers the visitor the opportunity to click on "Find sounds like this one." The search engine then uses a form of artificial intelligence to retrieve audio files that sound most like the given sample � not just sounds that are labeled with a similar keyword."
Professional Reading Shelf Preservation of Digital Materials
Source: RLG Full-Text Report, Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
70 pages .pdf
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