Integrated Video and Text for web-based access to parliamentary resources ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2010 Bucharest, Parliament of Romania, November 2010 Marian Boţocan

Video Streaming available for: Live coverage of the sessionssince Plenary sittings2003 Committee meetings: - Budget Legal matters - Public administration - Industries 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 closed captions - 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 data How long was the speech of? – a political group – a Member

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