Captions and TV Archives

Notes:

• Archive.org/TV

• 2 million news shows online, searchable captions

• The "Third Eye" -- reading and analyzing the "lower third" of the screen -- What are they reporting, what and how are they summarizing?

• Uses tesseract-ocr and simhash to pull lines from multiple news channels

• www.twitter.com/tvThirdEye -- watches CNN, tweets headlines.

• CLIPS -- little JSON annotations to set start/end - points. Using JSONPatch.

• Popcorn.js at IA: http://archive.org/pop/

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