Integrated Video and Text for

web-based access to

parliamentary resources

ECPRD - ICT Working Group Meeting 2010

Bucharest, Parliament of Romania,

18-19 November 2010

Marian Boţocan

Video Streaming available for:

Live coverage of the sessions since

Plenary sittings 2003

Committee meetings:

- Budget

2008- 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 closed

captions - 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