We have been working on getting more content in the archive and easily accessible. We recently acquired a new 2U dual core Xeon transcoding server with the resources from the sunlight min-grant…. This new computer should make transcoding around 3x faster. This should enable quicker posting of archival content. Also we are still looking for a way to put this capture box in the capital. This will enable live and instantly archived streams of house and senate proceedings.

Work on metavid continues to support not only viewing these proccedings but enabling their reuse in digital dialog.
Development is moving forward even without a full time developer To review the new features mentioned in the metavid svn over the past two weeks:

• unified metadata table for search queries and results. (queries now run 2-3 times faster with fewer JOINS)
• people links, profile pages,
• advanced search functions in the web view
• updated playhead for ogg media (a vlc limitation makes it not work for annodex hopefully will be resolved)
• updated context playhead. (will explain more shortly)
• updated ivtv drivers for capture box
• updated archive maintenance scripts

These Features and more should be showing up in the bleeding edge section after they are fully tested and integrated by mid-late September.