newsscape, ucla’s international television news archive
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NewsScape, UCLA’s International Television
News ArchiveKai Chan
BruinTech Tech-a-Thon, November 19, 2013
Introduction
• UCLA Library Broadcast NewsScape
• collection of television news
• 42 networks
• 2041 shows
• 211,000 hours
• 263,000 news program
Background/History
• analog recordingo since Watergate/1970so thousands of tapeso hard to look for a particular news program or topic
Background/History
• digital recordingo since 2005o digitally record TV news
UCLA: campus TV feed midwest: CWRU other countries: Spain, Denmark, Norway, etc.
o download transcripts and web-streamed news CNN transcript Russia Today, Democracy Now
o download other news material campaign ads
Background/History
• collaboration with UCLA Libraryo since 2012o copyright protectiono new sources (e.g. Iranian Green Movement)o current: access from UCLA, campus-wideo future: access from all UC campuses (and beyond)
• collaboration with other universities/institutions in U.S. and abroad
Applications in Research
• amount of coverage for events over time
• word/phrase choices
• speech and language patterns
• identification of gestures and images
• identification of objects and people (anchors, public figures)
• story segmentation
Applications in Teaching
• Chicano Studies: representation of Latinos on the Television Newso May 1, 2007 immigration marcho MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, CAo 2 days (May 1 & 2, 2007)o framing, stereotyping, metaphor, silencingo reports with screenshots and links to news stories
Applications in Teaching
• Communication Studies: Presidential Communicationo 2008 presidential primaryo 6 weeks (December 2007 to February 2008)o coverage of sound biteso amount of time given to candidate/partyo types of response (positive, neutral, negative)o students created their own political ad.
Types Of Data
• captiono closed captioning (US)o teletext (Europe)
• transcript
• video
• image
Types Of Data
• metadatao name-entityo story segmento on-screen texto gestureo static image
Search Engines
• searcho word, phrase, regex o proximity: words, seconds, same segment
• filtero date, network, show
Search Engines
• sorto relevance, date
• group/counto date: year, month, week, day, houro network, show
• displayo list, table, chart
Search Engines
• NewsScape main siteo http://newsscape.library.ucla.eduo accessible from UCLA IP addresses (campus/VPN)o for teaching and learning
• research interfaceo login required, restrictedo for research
CNN
FOX-News
KABC KNBC
KCBS
MSNBC
CampaignAds
AlJazzeera CNN Comedy
Central
FOX-News
KCBS KNBC
MSNBC
7/14/2013 11/16/2013
7/14/2013 11/16/2013
9/7/2008 12/21/2008
9/7/2008 12/21/2008
7/2011 12/2012
7/2011 12/2012
Learning Experiences
• think about who will be using your projectso make things easy-to-use for all whenever possible
• use the best technology whenever possibleo a lot of great open-source softwareo think about extensibility
• talk to people about your projectso you might be (positively) surprised
Conclusion
• start searching: http://newsscape.library.ucla.edu
• my e-mail:[email protected]
• questions?