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Metavid

Field	Value
name	metavid
logo	Metavid wiki logo.png
logo_size	200px
caption	community archive project
commercial	No
launch_date	March 2006
current_status	Inactive

Metavid is a free-software wiki-based community archive project for audio video media. The site hosts public domain US legislative footage. It was started as a Digital Arts/New Media MFA thesis project of Michael Dale and Abram Stern under the advisement of Professor Warren Sack in late 2005 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Its continued development is supported by a grant from the Sunlight Foundation. It works by using a "simple Linux box to record everything that C-SPAN shoots", which can then be used to provide "brief searchable clips using closed-captioning text".

Metavid Archive

Metavid Software

Metavid is a free software platform for online communities to engage with audio/video media assets. The site encodes video in patent unencumbered ogg video. The Metavid software is built on top of MediaWiki and Semantic Mediawiki, enabling semantic temporal metadata for media streams. Metavid also features basic sequencing and the mv_embed library that enables remote embedding of hosted clips with associated transcripts. Metadata such as transcripts are exported in CMML, an open xml standard developed by Annodex foundation to exchange of temporal metadata. All media and metadata is accessible in a temporal namespace enabling requesting and serving of arbitrary time segments of media and associated metadata. Metavid was presented at wikimania07 and at wikimania08

The Metavide MediaWiki extension has not been maintained since 2016.

References

Jones, K.C.. (June 23, 2008). "Web Sites Push For More Transparency and Accessibility In Government".
(May 7, 2007). "UCSC Receives $157,000 to Support Open Archive of Congressional Proceedings". Newswise.
Costa, Dan. (June 26, 2008). "Think Past the Internet ATM".
[http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratizing_the_Archive:_An_Open_Interface_for_Mediation#Motivations_for_Metavid_and_its_Contested_Legality Metavid and its Contested Legality] {{webarchive. link. (2008-06-05 , Michael Dale, June 2006)
"Archived copy".
"U.S. Senate: Floor Webcast".
(February 9, 2016). "Extension:MetavidWiki". MediaWiki.org.

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