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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Catherine the Great: Digital Media Monitoring
Catherine Gilbert, one of the most respected librarian and digital guru in the legislative environment, has written a thoughtful paper on the future of the media monitoring services. It is great to know that our parliamentarians are surrounded by proactive ideas and brilliant minds.
The Electronic Media Monitoring Service (EMMS) allows Senators and Members to browse, search and view television and radio items on desktop PCs. News and current affairs items are recorded in Canberra by Parliamentary Library staff and published onto the EMMS web site for access by Senators and Members in Parliament House and their electorate offices.
The electronic media monitoring service is highly popular and this project has involved technology not applied in this way before. Using the new technology, media programs are digitally captured, encoded and archived for retrieval and playback by the Library’s clients.
• Digital Media Monitoring for Parliament by Catherine Gilbert [PDF -version] [Gilbert on Google; 1995-2005 Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web ]
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