MySociety and Video Timestamping | The Open House Project

MySociety and Video Timestamping

June 11th, 2008 by John Wonderlich · No Comments

It looks like mysociety.org’s new experiment in harnessing public input to timestamp parliamentary video is off to an excellent start.

The project creates a simple input mechanism that connects transcripts to video footage, helping to fill out theyworkforyou.org’s data sets, and presumably add text searchable video to their already expansive offering of legislative information.

The idea of harnessing simple, even fun tasks to clean up data sets or perform what would be huge tasks isn’t new — see especially the Google image labeler project for a somewhat similar idea — but the mysociety crew has shown a unique proficiency at recognizing what appeals to both constituents and politicians attention spans and incentives.

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