GDELT Television News Visual explorer

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To enable advanced, non-consumptive visual analysis of television news, ranging from OCR to custom object detection, you can download a ZIP file of the full-resolution versions of the thumbnails you see on this page. Thumbnails are in JPEG format and are numbered in the order they appear in the thumbnail grid on this page.

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GDELT TV Visual Explorer

The GDELT TV Visual Explorer is a collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive and the Media-Data Research Consortium to explore new approaches for enabling rapid exploration and understanding of the visual landscape of television news, including international broadcasts without subtitles and other enrichments. Each broadcast is converted into a grid of miniature frames, one every 4 seconds, which allow for quick visual exploration of a broadcast’s visual narratives and identification of specific segments of interest.

You can click on a thumbnail on this page to watch a short video clip of the broadcast starting at that moment, and to view more information about the broadcast at the Internet Archive website.

This is a highly experimental research initiative aimed at reimagining how memory institutions like the Archives can make their vast television news archives more accessible to scholars, journalists and informed citizens. It is optimized for desktop use under a modern web browser such as Chrome. Video clips are streamed directly from the archive and may experience delays or errors during periods of high load.

If you have any questions, please contact Kalev Leetaru.

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GDELT TV Visual Explorer

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GDELT TV Visual Explorer

Some channels have closed captioning that allows you to search for keywords in the broadcast’s audio transcript and view matching segments. A small number of channels are analyzed via the Cloud Video AI API to identify key objects and activities and perform multi-language OCR, making the text keyword searchable on screen.

This channel has subtitles and is searchable by keyword via TV Explorer.