Digital Democracy Project: Making Government More Transparent one Video at a Time

Authorship
Sam Blakeslee, Alex Dekhtyar, Foaad Khosmood, Franz Kurfess, Toshihiro Kuboi, Hans Poschman, Giovanni Prinzivalli, Christine Robertson, Skylar Durst
Publication
Digital Humanities 2015
Poster or Panel Discussion
Location
Sydney, Australia
Abstract

The Digital Democracy platform obtains data about the legislative committee hearings: the video archives, the information about the state legislature and so on. Figure 1 shows the design of the DD system. The main source of information for the DD platform is the Cal Channel video archive of legislative sessions, a service provided courtesy of cable TV companies that operate in California.