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Integrated Video and Text for web-based access to
parliamentary resources
ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2010Bucharest, Parliament of Romania,
18-19 November 2010
Marian Boţocan
Video Streaming available for:
Live coverage of the sessions sincePlenary sittings 2003Committee meetings:
- Budget2008- Legal matters
- Public administration- Industries
2009- Agriculture- Education
– SDI standard– Formats:• Real Player format - Real Networks Helix Server• Adobe Flash Player - only for plenary sittings• Windows Media Player format - only for archived videos
– Foreign guests: 2 audio channels (speaker language + Romanian language from the interpretation system)
– Bit rate: 100 … 150 … 300 kbps stream
Characteristics of the video streams
Integration of the videos with DB - plenary sessions
stenography service
produces text files with markups
records are loaded into database
ORACLE DB
– Name of the speaker– Item on the agenda– Full-text
– Start time– End time
Integration of the videos with DB - committee meetings
stenography service
produces text files with markups
records are loaded into database
ORACLE DB
– Agenda
– Start time– End time– Speaker– Item in the agenda
The item on the agenda being
discussed
Name of the speakers
Videos with open captions - plenary sessions
Videos with closedcaptions - plenary sessions
ORACLE DB
AJAX
Stopwatch
Vote results
Videos from the committee meetings halls
• Cameras directed automatically • Automatic direction and focus
steered by microphones. • The seats are marked and
focused to the automatic direction.
How far integrated and easy?– Information available in different subsites• agenda (plenary or committee meetings)• plenary transcripts• bills, motions, qustions• deputies
– Information retrieval through• body (committee or plenary)• session• speaker• time
Video and text on bill pages
Debates on the plenary sessions
How long did it take to debate on?– legislative business (bill no….)– parliamentary control (question,
interpellation, motion)– political declaration
Statistical dataHow long was the speech of?
– a political group– a Member
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