Selasa, 18 September 2012

The Internet Archive Now Hosts Three Years Worth of News Videos Starting from 2009


The Internet Archive has been working for a while now to warehouse all sorts of information, the web in particular. It's the only ongoing effort to keep a record of the internet as it was at any given point in time.

Since its creation, the Internet Archive's goals stretched beyond the web to any form of digital media.

Then, digital copies of films, as far back as it can get them, started to be archived and, more recently, physical books have been made a part of the effort.

At this point, the Internet Archive's goal is simple, in a way, it wants to preserve all books, music and videos created by humans.

Now it's turned its eye to news and, in a significant move, was able to get its hands on all the news produced in the last three years by 20 channels in the US.

The more than 1,000 news series and 350,000 individual shows represent a huge win for the Internet Archive, especially since it's very recent info.

The Internet Archive managed to get videos from plenty of news stations like CNN, Fox News or NBC News, but also news programs from generalist stations or even cable channels like Comedy Central.

Both The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are available in the archive, which is fitting, since the Internet Archive is well aware of how valuable all of these news segments are going to be to anyone wanting to do what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are doing, but without the huge team and the big budget.

"Let a thousand Jon Stewarts bloom," as Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said.

If you're looking at this as a way to catch up on old shows and watch them in their entirety, you're knocking on the wrong door. The idea is to make it easier to retrieve archival footage, not to catch up on your Daily Show episodes.

Videos are limited to 30-second clips online and only the first half of the minute of any segment is browsable, it seems. You'll also have to deal with the ads that aired during the shows.

That's because the Internet Archive simply started recording every news segment and every news channel three years ago and is now making the videos available for search. Given the copyright complications involved, it's a miracle that the Internet Archive is able to provide even 30-second clips.

If you do want the entire footage though, you can "borrow" it on DVD from the Internet Archive, you simply select the shows you need and click "Borrow" button on the new TV News site.

Via: The Internet Archive Now Hosts Three Years Worth of News Videos Starting from 2009

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