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Wow! Construction Complete! C-SPAN Puts Complete Archive (23 years) on the Web and It's Free
March 15, 2010 23:42
Access the Complete Archive
From a NY Times Article:
The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations [160,000 hours] and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday. [Its been online for several months as it was built].
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One of the Web site’s features, the Congressional Chronicle, shows which members of Congress have spoken on the House and Senate floors the most, and the least. Each senator and representative has a profile page. Using the data already available, some newspapers have written about particularly loquacious local lawmakers.
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The archives of all three channels have been mostly uploaded, but they can only be streamed. Mr. [Robert] Browning, director of the Archives, said video downloads were on his agenda. Users can embed the videos on other Web sites and clip small sound bites for repeat viewing
Here Some Quick Notes. We plan to do another post about the archive soon.
1) Homepage allows you to view most recent, most watched, and most shared video.
2) A search box is located at the top of all pages. Below it is a link to the advanced search interface. Here you can build searches using up to 10 search fields.
3) Most of the video we reviewed has a text transcript associated with it
4) After you run a search you can focus your results by:
+ Data (via useful sliders)
+ Topic
+ Category
In the "Person Results" section, click on a persons name a get back info about that person.
Here's an example using Tom Brokaw.
Everything from appearances by year to a photo gallery to links to recent appearances.
In other sections, click on or near the thumbnail image and get info about the event, people present a text transcript and more.
5. Results can be sorted by best match, most recent match, least recent match
6. Results are organized by people, program results, transcript results
7. Also available on the site (at bottom of blue box): the C-SPAN schedule, the Congressional Chronicle, an option to browse the archive, and the C-SPAN Video Library Blog
8. Purchase from the C-SPAN store
9. Learn More About the Archives
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