Continually Growing Video Library
1,600 hour library consisting of 50,000 video clips
- CNN sources (Early Prime, World View, World Today), with additional 10 hours added every week
- being added every week
- documentary video (400 hours primarily from British Open University and QED Communications)
- US government documentary video, from NASA, the National Park Service, and the US Geological Survey
Future corpora will include MSNBC and “News Hour with Jim Lehrer”, other collections being sought
Video saved in MPEG-1 format (352 x 240 resolution, 30 frames/sec.), almost 2 terabytes of RAID arrays