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Info Industry Briefs: News From Alexander Street Press, Gale, and ProQuest
| Gale, News, Open Access, Publishing
+ Alexander Street Press Announces Three New Streaming Video Collections and Announces Academic Video Online Publishing Plan for 2011 Online video repository announced. Plans call for for 20,000 titles in repository by 2013. (Currently at 8,000). Note: A free sneak peek of the three new video databases is now available. Register here. + Gale Adds […]
"Government-recorded Hearings Now Being Added to the Video Library"
| Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Libraries, News
From the C-SPAN Video Library Blog The C-SPAN Video Library now contains committee hearings produced by House and Senate committees. C-SPAN can only record a limited number of committees every day. However, a number of House and Senate committees have installed their own equipment to webcast their committee proceedings. These webcasts are now scattered across […]
Topsy, a search that provides access to the real time web (news and blogs), tweets, photos, and a search tool to help identify experts using Twitter (Beta, learn more has announced that they just added real time video search to their offerings. Topsy Video search extends topsy’s socially ranked search technology to videos. The new […]
Canada: Television Archives: TVO Launches Digital Public Archive Online
| Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Podcasts
TVO, public/educational television from Ontario, has just launched a new online video archive with material their first 40 years of broadcasting. At the present time the archive ncludes over 325 programs and segments with more to come. You can keyword search for shows or browse collections or the most viewed programs, programs new to the […]
From a TechNet Post (One of Many Microsoft Company Blogs): How do you find the utterance of a single phrase in 4+ hours’ worth of video. I gave up as I as trying to find that precise moment in the broadcast was a classic needle in a haystack problem. What if I could just search […]
