DebateView

Automatic Debate Publisher
Arbor Media realized a system for recording and internet publication of public debates. Most parliaments only provide a live stream of the ongoing debate, but with DebateView it is now possible to watch the debate afterwards, at any time, by anybody, and from any location with an Internet connection. When the debate is ongoing, clerks present at the debate provide real-time metadata (i.e. speaker and breaks).

A debate can take a long time, even multiple days. Publishing the complete debate at once will take a few hours and is not desired. With DebateView the debate is published in phases; whenever there is a break, the part from the start (or previous break) until this break is published instantly. This way, debate video is available as soon as possible, creating some highly added value! When published, the debate can be accessed not only by the parliament employees, but also by the audience.

Missed the debate?
No worry; Everybody who is interested can access debate recordings!
MPs can access the part before the break to look back to what is said by whom. The most recent debates are listed at the top for actuality. When watching a debate, navigation in the video based on metadata is possible.

Searching by metadata
A debate can take multiple hours thus searching a specific interesting part will take too long. Therefore, next to the player, metadata is listed upon which can be navigated. Just click on the specific metadata item (e.g. speaker) and the player jumps to that moment in the debate. The number of published debates grows fast thus search functionality on the metadata (most important are the subject and the debate-speakers) is provided. When searching e.g. for a speaker, the search results show all the debates that this person spoke on. Also, when a speaker speaks multiple times in a single debate, all his/her speaking moments are shown. Actually, the search results contain a part of the metadata normally listed parallel to the debate video player. Clicking a search result will instantly start playing the debate from that moment.