Search Text & People

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 a sample semantic search for Speeches by representative who have received more than a million from Attorneys & law firms interest group

About MetaVid Archive

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

• More About Metavid
• An Introduction to MetaVid Archive
• Video Introduction to Metavid
• FAQ (frequently asked questions)
• Check out a Sample stream view for 08-01-07

Recently Added Streams

• House proceeding 06-20-08 00
• House proceeding 06-20-08
• House proceeding 06-19-08 01
• House proceeding 06-19-08 00
• … further results

Help for Bloggers

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

How to Participate?

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

• Improving Documentation
• Improving Archive Accuracy
  • Categorizing Streams
  • Check out all clips categorized Opening Prayer

Advanced Uses of Metavid

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

About MetaVidWiki 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, Media Search and Media Sequencer

• More about MetavidWiki Software
• Sites Using MetaVidWiki