Metavid Overview

How to Use Metavid

MetaVidWiki includes an powerful searching system, you can use the search form in the left column to find people, bills, interests or issues

• Help finding your representative
• Finding legislation of interest, sample bill
• Check out the Sample Semantic Queries page for examples of powerful queries that can be done on the dataset.

Get Help

For help, start by reading our FAQ.

You can also chat with metavid developers & our community live on #metavid.

Help for Bloggers

• Embedding clips in your blog
• Linking to specif times in the Video
• Blogs using metavid videos

Advanced Uses of Metavid

• Manage congress record display types
• How to use Metavid with Miro
• Advanced Search
• APIs (also see metavid software)

About Metavid

MetaVid is a community archive project for public domain US legislative footage.

• More About Metavid
• An Introduction to MetaVid Archive
• FAQ (frequently asked questions)
• Technical Overview:
  • wikimania July 2008 odp

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• Video Introduction to Metavid

How to Participate

Metavid depends on people like you to help make it a better. Here are some quick tips for improving the archive as you use the site.

• Why participate?
• Improving Documentation
• Improving Archive Accuracy
  • Categorizing Streams
  • For example check out all clips categorized Opening Prayer
• MetaVidWiki metavid is an open source project. We can always use help with bug reports, testing, and development.

About the Metavid Wiki Software

MetaVidWiki (MVW) is a free extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that enables community engagement with audio/visual media assets and associative temporal metadata. Metavid extends the SemanticMediaWiki extension and adds three interfaces to mediawiki: Stream MetaEditor, Semantic Media Search and Media Sequencer. Also see features overview

• More about MetavidWiki Software
• Sites Using MetaVidWiki