About

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MetaVid is a community archive project for public domain US legislative footage. It was started as a thesis project of Michael Dale and Abram Stern under the advisement of Professor Warren Sack. Its continued development is supported by a grant from the sunlight foundation. You can read more about the archive here and more about metavidWiki software here

Supported By

In addition to the many individual contributors metavid is supported by:

In April of 2007 The Sunlight Foundation issued a major grant to the metavid project which funded a full year of development and hardware infrastructure upgrades.

In December of 2006 The Sunlight Foundation, provided metavid with a small grant which supported a month of software development and some additional hardware.

Film and Digital Media Department and CITRIS provide the space for the metavid servers

An NSF grant funded some early development.

The University of California Santa Cruz has provided hosting for the metavid project since January 06.

Metavid was originally developed in the DANM (Digital Arts and New Media) program at UCSC. DANM provided the initial hardware for the project.