Want to search Parliament video?
Reading the programme for the LIANZA Conference 2008 I noticed a talk about “Representing New Zealand - electorate profiles and Parliament TV”. It seems that behind the Parliament firewall it is now possible to do text-search of Parliament video:
Our Parliament TV system links text-based Hansard on our Intranet to video files of the House in progress. This lets clients browse or search the Hansard text and jump straight into the actual proceedings via video links.
If you’re at the LIANZA conference, please ask the speaker if there are any plans to make video search available to the New Zealand public. In the UK, it was TheyWorkForYou.com that made it possible for the public to search the UK Parliament’s video record. TheyWorkForYou.com used crowd-sourcing of volunteers to watch every debate and hit a button to mark speech starts, in order to get video time stamps in the correct place.
Sat 1st Nov 2008
