The Success of Open Source
Enabling peer review of expert testimony within government proceedings
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities
Reputation systems for open collaboration
Communications of the ACM
Peer to PCAST: what does open video have to do with open government?
Information Polity - Special issue on Public Engagement and Government Collaboration: Theories, Strategies and Case Studies
Saving, reusing, and remixing web video: using attitudes and practices to reveal social norms
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
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We have developed Metavid.org, a site that archives video footage of the U.S. Senate and House floor proceedings. Visitors can search for who said what when and also download, remix, blog, edit, discuss, and annotate transcripts and metadata. The site has been built with Open Source Software (OSS) and the video is archived in an OSS codec (Ogg Theora). We highlight two aspects of the Metavid design: (1) open standards; and, (2) Wiki functionality. First, open standards allow Metavid to function both as a platform, on top of which other sites can be built, and as a resource for "mashing" (i.e., semi-automatically assembling custom websites). For example, Voterwatch.org pulls its video from the Metavid archive. Second, Metavid extends the MediaWiki software (which is the foundation of Wikipedia) into the domain of collaborative video authoring. This extension allows closed-captioned text or video sequences to be collectively edited.