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Source: Gilad Mishne
New Academic Paper Offers a Review of Weblog Searching
The paper will be presented at the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’06) 2006 in April. The paper is titled “A Study of Blog Search.” It was written by Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke from the University of Amsterdam. 13 pages; PDF. From the abstract, “We present an analysis of a large blog search engine query log, exploring a number of angles such as query intent, query topics, and user sessions. Our results show that blog searches have different intents than general web searches, suggesting that the primary targets of blog searchers are tracking references to named entities, and locating blogs by theme. In terms of interest areas, blog searchers are, on average, more engaged in technology, entertainment, and politics than web searchers, with a particular interest in current events. The user behavior observed is similar to that in general web search: short sessions with an interest in the first few results only.”
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Google and National Archives (U.S.) Announce Project to Digitize Historic Films
Word today that the National Archives (NARA) and Google have announced a non-exclusive pilot project to digitize and bring historical film content from the National Archives to the web. The material will be available via Google Video and via a link at the National Archives site (though the content will be hosted by Google). Some material is already available at this special interface for National Archives content. From the news release, “The National Archives and Google are exploring the possibilities of expanding the online film collection and making the Archives’ extensive textual holdings available via the Internet.” We were unable to find any type of timeline for content additions or new programs. Content can be downloaded for offline viewing. A bit more info here.
See Also: Google Makes Digitized Archive of Interviews with TV Legends Available Online (via SEW Blog)
See Also: In November, Danny and Gary wrote about Google providing $3 million in seed money to The Library of Congress to build a World Digital Library. No word at this point on how things are proceeding.
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By No Stretch of the Imagination is this Project the Only Place to Find Both New and Historic Film on the Web
Here are a few, just a few, places to find “historic” film and video content and some other “educational” material on the web from both government and non-government sources. Again, this list is FAR FROM comprehensive. Just a taste. (-: If people find this collection useful, I’ll continue to build it out.
+ The Movie Picture Archive from the Internet Archive
Take special note of the Prelinger Archives. What is it? “Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 48,000 “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 4,000 titles on videotape and a smaller collection of film materials acquired subsequent to the Library of Congress transaction.”
+ The Internet Archive is Also Home to the Universal Newsreels Archive
601 newsreels from 1929 to 1967.
+ Moving Images Collection (via Georgia Tech University)
“A Window to the World’s Moving Images.”
+ Survivors of the Shoah Testimony Viewer
Holocaust survivors tell their stories. Part of the Survivors of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
+ Multimedia Content via the Library of Congress American Memory Project
You’ll find movies, sound recordings, and more.
+ Canada: Digitisation Projects from Library and Archives Canada including:
++ Virtual Silver Screen
++ Featuring Gratien Gelinas
+ Europe: A Collection of Historic Television Commercials
via Blinkx. More than 5000 commercials have been digitised.
+ Germany: German newsreel archives (Wochenschau-Archiv)
Via BUFVC annotation: “The Federal Film Archives, Berlin, are digitising the Deutsche Wocheschau newsreel collection of German newsreels from 1949 and making them freely available over the internet. Over 4,000 stories have been issued so far, for lowband (56K) or broadband (250K) connections, using Windows Media Player.”
+ The National Archives of the UK Has a Collection of Digitized Content via BlinkxTV
To access, select National Archives in the “information section” on the Blinkx search page.
+ UK: British Path Film Archive and Newsplayer.com
++ Newsplayer.com offers over 100 years of digitized film.
++ Material from British Pathe newsreel archive (1896-1970).
Both services are free or available at a VERY low cost for individual use. The British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND) will also be of interest. Direct links to the Pathe database.
+ UK: Nation on Film
From the BBC.
+ Selections from the The Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina
+ Surgery Videos (via the National Library of Medicine)
+ NASA Video Archive NASA Image Exchange (NIX)
Limit your NIX search to movie or video.
+ NOAA: A Gallery of Historical Films
Archived Lectures and Presentations
+ ResearchChannel.org
Lectures and presentations from a consortium of many universities.
+ MIT World Archive
+ University of California, Berkeley
+ New, Institute of Politics Opens Up Video Archive to the Public
+ A Comprehensive List of Film and Video Archives Around the World
Many have online digitization prjects.
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