Integrated Video and Text for web-based access to

parliamentary resources

ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2010Bucharest, Parliament of Romania,

18-19 November 2010

Marian Boţocan

Video Streaming available for:

Live coverage of the sessions sincePlenary sittings 2003Committee meetings:

- Budget2008- Legal matters

- Public administration- Industries

2009- 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 closedcaptions - 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 dataHow long was the speech of?

– a political group– a Member

Thank you!mbotocan@cdep.ro