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Físchlár-News Stories: User's Guide
Físchlár-News Stories was an automated video archive of daily RTE 9 o'clock TV news, developed and maintained 2000 - 2005 by Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University. With Físchlár-News Stories, you can
More details on Físchlár-News can be found in a number of publications in our publications page, but refer to the following in particular:
This User's Guide page introduces and instructs basic how to do's of the system, and also how the system works. |
- Microsoft Windows-based PCs (Windows 95, NT, 98, 2000, XP)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer v5+
- Screen resolution at least 1024 x 768
A small software plug-in (Oracle Video Player) needs to be installed for video playback - see 'Installing Video Player Plug-in' section below.
Every user of the system first has to register. When you visit
Físchlár-News Stories site (http://www.fischlar.dcu.ie/news/), the page will ask you to either
register (first time only) or log in (once registered) as the screen shot on the right shows.
For registration, click the "Register..." button, and on the following page type
in your full email address then click "Register" button. After a few seconds, you will have
received an email from the system, confirming your registration with a password - so check your
email and note the password in this email. Once you have this, you can log in to the system
by typing in your full email address and password on the Login page. Once you are logged in, you can
change your password into something more memorable - by clicking on "My Account" button on
the bottom right.
The installation will finish with the message saying "the installation is complete". Usually you don't need to restart the computer. Now you can play videos available on Físchlár.
Once you are logged in, you will see on the left side of the screen the monthly calendar
with the current month at the top (see Figure beside). The days in yellow are the days for which the
evening news are available for story searching, browsing and playback. Notice the archive
starts from 23 April 2003 (bottom of the calendar), to the yesterday (top of the calendar).
Clicking on any of the days will show the list of that day's news stories on the right side
of the screen (see Figure beside). Each story is summarise with a single image (showing the anchorperson starting
that story), first few lines of the anchorperson's announcement, link to more detailed browsing and
playback option. To play a story, click on "Play this story" link at the end of the story
summary - a player window will pop up and start streamed playback from that story onwards.
To view it in full-screen,
right-mouse click inside the player and select "Full-screen" (or a simple short-cut by Alt-Enter).
Notice the thumbs-up and -down icons beside each story: this is 5-scale
rating icons with which you should indicate your level of preference on that story. Whenever you
see these thumbs icons, please click on one of the 5 icons, to let us know how much you like (or dislike)
this particular news story. We will be able to personalise the system by getting your preference
indications during your registered period, so that we can recommend a few stories that will be of
interest to you in the future. Once you indicated your preference for a story, the icon colour
will change reflecting your preference. From now on, whenever
you come across this particular story again,
you will see that your indication has been remembered and displayed.
You can search news stories by typing in word(s) in the text box on the screen, similar to as
you do with a search engine on the web. The search result will be displayed on the right side
of the screen, showing the list of news stories in the archive that
matched your query term(s). Searching is done on the whole collection
(from 25 April 2003 to yesterday), not on a particular date displayed on the screen.
For a query with multiple terms, see the examples below:
- palestinian israeli ( = palestinian OR israeli)
- michael AND jackson
- mars NOT nasa
If you don't have time to browse throught the archive, just click on the 'Recommended button as seen
in figure beside. This will show you a few personalised news stories selected across the archive that you will
likely to want to see, including recently appeared stories - this is
the result of your thumbs rating (see 'Rating of Stories' above) from which the system has
figured out what stories you haven't seen that would be of interest to you. The recommended
story list will be different for individual users, and at different time of access. Browse and play the recommended stories
as any other stories.
DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY 2009