Re: [rtcweb] NSA-issues TV news quote library

Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@librevideo.org> Mon, 21 October 2013 19:23 UTC

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On 10/21/2013 03:13 PM, Roger Macdonald wrote:
> To assist journalists and other concerned citizens in reflecting on
> the extent of National Security Agency surveillance and weakening of our
> digital infrastructure, the Internet Archive has created a
> curated library of short television news clips presenting key statements
> and other representations.
> 
> https://archive.org/details/nsa
> 
> 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, connections
> to source broadcasters and options to borrow can be explored by
> following the More/Borrow links on each thumbnail.
> 
> My best, Roger
> 
> Roger Macdonald
> Director, Television Archive
> Internet Archive

Are there any plans to transcode these videos to either WebM or Ogg
Theora formats to enable support in Firefox, for example?

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