Authorship:
Sam Blakeslee, Alex Dekhtyar, Foaad Khosmood, Franz Kurfess, Toshihiro Kuboi, Hans Poschman, Giovanni Prinzivalli, Christine Robertson, Skylar Durst
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.