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Coming soon. A Citizen’s Guide to Candidates & Issues (As seen on TV). Internet Archive. Founded in 1996 , Building a digital library A 501(c)(3) non-profit, a registered library in California Collecting websites, video, audio & books Free public access
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Coming soon A Citizen’s Guide to Candidates &Issues (As seen on TV)
Internet Archive • Founded in 1996, Building a digital library • A 501(c)(3) non-profit, a registered library in California • Collecting websites, video, audio & books • Free public access • Funding from Library of Congress, National Archives, State governments, Universities, foundations
Ten years ago, we offered a library of worldwide TV news coverage of the the week following 9/11.
A Citizen’s Guide to Candidates &Issues (As seen on TV)
Enable citizens to better understand candidates and issues in the 2012 Presidential Election by exploring a TV News Archive DRAFT
Topics, date ranges, clip length and sort order can be recombined.
Show limited length clips across networks, blended together into a citable sequence, or “clipstream” • Clipstreams can be built around topics, search terms, or a timeframe
Electi Citizens Guide • Free TV News research library for exploration & discovery • New tool to access archived broadcasts • Available to journalists, researchers, and the public
Contact Us Alexis Rossi, MLIS alexis@archive.org
Further Reading • http://archive.org • http://archive.org/projects • http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive • http://televisionarchive.org • http://openlibrary.org