Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

The Internet Archive TV News Archive is a service provided by the Internet Archive that enables users to search across a collection of television news programs. As of May 2024, the TV News Archive provides access to clips from 2.88 million US broadcast shows dating back to 2009 for research and educational purposes. For over a decade, journalists and scholars have used its collections to varying extents in over 2,000 articles and research publications. As illustrated in Figure 1, the TV News Archive data available to the public includes video clips of broadcasts and closed captions. The Internet Archive also provides access to chyrons (the "lower thirds" of TV screens displaying breaking news and highlights). Figure 1: Video clip from the TV News Archive displaying closed captions and a chyron (lower thirds) providing breaking news. Link to the video clip: https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20240503_133000_Trump_Hush_Money_Trial/start/5958/end/6018   Several tools have emerge...

We are grateful to have received one of four Data Science Seed Funding awards from ODU to begin an investigation into using worldwide news data from  GDELT  to monitor xenophobic violence towards migrants and refugees. This is joint work with Erika Frydenlund from VMASC and will support one PhD student for one year.  The goal of the Data Science Seed Funding program was to foster collaborations between on-campus ODU faculty and VMASC researchers in the area of data science. Michele C. Weigle and Erika Frydenlund, Data Science for Social Good: Mining and Visualizing Worldwide News to Monitor Xenophobic Violence Towards Migrants and Refugees, ODU Data Science Seed Funding, Jul 2022 - Jun 2023, $38,000. Monitoring the prevalence of xenophobic violence towards migrants and refugees is an important requirement for policymakers to provide support and resources to the areas most in need. Previous approaches have largely involved manual curation of news articles and data ...