Internet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009
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“Absolutely ” Mr. Kahle said. “We think of it as news.”
The Internet Archive has been quietly recording the news material from all these outlets  which means   Mr. Kahle  said  capturing not only every edition of “60 Minutes” on CBS but also every minute of every day on CNN.
All of this will be available  free  to those willing to dive into the archive starting Tuesday.  Mr. Kahle  said the method for the search for information would be the closed-captioned words that have accompanied the news programs. The user simply plugs in the words of the search  along with some kind of time frame  and matches of news clips will appear.
 Mr. Kahle  predicted there would often be hundreds of matches  but  he  said the system had an interface that would make it easy to browse quickly through 30-second clips in search of the right one. If a researcher wants a copy of the entire program  a DVD will be sent on loan.
The inspiration of the Library of Alexandria  the archive of the knowledge in ancient world in Egypt  was not frivolous.  Mr. Kahle  said that early effort to assemble the collected works of civilization was in  his  mind when  he  conceived the idea to use the almost infinite capacity of the Web to pursue the modern equivalent.
“You could turn all the books in the Library of Congress into a stack of disks that would fit in one shopping cart in Best Buy ”  Mr. Kahle  said.  He  estimates that the Internet Archive now contains about 9 000 terabytes of data; by contrast  the digital collection of the Library of Congress is a little more than 300 terabytes  according to an estimate earlier this year.
 Mr. Kahle  calls  himself  a technologist and says  he  moved to the archive project after previously founding and selling off two data-mining companies  one to AOL  the other to Amazon.
The television news project  like  his  other archive projects  is financed mainly through outside grants  though  Mr. Kahle  did put up some of  his  own money to start.  He  said grants from the National Archives  the Library of Congress and other government agencies and foundations made up the bulk of the financing for the project.  He  set the annual budget at $12 million  and said about 150 people were working on the project.
The archive has no intention of replacing or competing with the Web outlets owned by the news organizations.  Mr. Kahle  said new material would not be added until 24 hours after it was first broadcast. “We don’t expect this to replace CNN.com ”  he  said.
As enormous as the news collection is  it is only the beginning   Mr. Kahle  said. The plan is to “go back” year by year  and slowly add news video going back to the start of television. That will require some new and perhaps more challenging methodology because the common use of closed-captioning only started around 2002.
 Mr. Kahle  said some new technique  perhaps involving word recognition  would be necessary. “We need some interface that is good enough and doesn’t interrupt commerce enough that they get upset with us.”
“Yes  we want eventually to be able to make coverage of  say  the 1956 political conventions available ” Mr. Kahle said.
“Absolutely ” Mr. Kahle said. “We think of it as news.”
The Internet Archive has been quietly recording the news material from all these outlets  which means   [TGT]said  capturing not only every edition of “60 Minutes” on CBS but also every minute of every day on CNN.
All of this will be available  free  to those willing to dive into the archive starting Tuesday.  [TGT]said the method for the search for information would be the closed-captioned words that have accompanied the news programs. The user simply plugs in the words of the search  along with some kind of time frame  and matches of news clips will appear.
 [TGT]predicted there would often be hundreds of matches  but  [TGT]  said the system had an interface that would make it easy to browse quickly through 30-second clips in search of the right one. If a researcher wants a copy of the entire program  a DVD will be sent on loan.
The inspiration of the Library of Alexandria  the archive of the knowledge in ancient world in Egypt  was not frivolous.  [TGT]said that early effort to assemble the collected works of civilization was in  [TGT]  mind when  [TGT]  conceived the idea to use the almost infinite capacity of the Web to pursue the modern equivalent.
“You could turn all the books in the Library of Congress into a stack of disks that would fit in one shopping cart in Best Buy ”  [TGT]said.  [TGT]  estimates that the Internet Archive now contains about 9 000 terabytes of data; by contrast  the digital collection of the Library of Congress is a little more than 300 terabytes  according to an estimate earlier this year.
 [TGT]calls  [TGT]  a technologist and says  [TGT]  moved to the archive project after previously founding and selling off two data-mining companies  one to AOL  the other to Amazon.
The television news project  like  [TGT]  other archive projects  is financed mainly through outside grants  though  [TGT]did put up some of  [TGT]  own money to start.  [TGT]  said grants from the National Archives  the Library of Congress and other government agencies and foundations made up the bulk of the financing for the project.  [TGT]  set the annual budget at $12 million  and said about 150 people were working on the project.
The archive has no intention of replacing or competing with the Web outlets owned by the news organizations.  [TGT]said new material would not be added until 24 hours after it was first broadcast. “We don’t expect this to replace CNN.com ”  [TGT]  said.
As enormous as the news collection is  it is only the beginning   Mr. Kahle  said. The plan is to “go back” year by year  and slowly add news video going back to the start of television. That will require some new and perhaps more challenging methodology because the common use of closed-captioning only started around 2002.
 [TGT]said some new technique  perhaps involving word recognition  would be necessary. “We need some interface that is good enough and doesn’t interrupt commerce enough that they get upset with us.”
“Yes  we want eventually to be able to make coverage of  say  the 1956 political conventions available ” [TGT] said.