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[–] jsprogrammer [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yes, that is a potentially huge issue. I think that there would be huge pressure on anyone hosting a file to keep it. Also, if YouTube is the only place with a recording of a particular event, there isn't much choice. I think that a huge concern of the community would be ensuring that there are sufficient copies available so that nothing is lost.

I would consider transcripts to be metadata, and yes it would need to be quickly searchable. Fortunately, text is much, much smaller than audio and video, so the storage requirements are not quite as complex.

Really what you need is funding, maybe kickstarter/go fund me? But you would need a demo system working before then.

This is true, but there are constraints on what kind of projects and be offered. In past research I have done on kickstarter, I believe you must eventually produce a "finished product", so I believe it would rule out a "hosted website". I do think it would be possible to frame the project as just producing the source-code to run such a system, however.

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[–] frontiersman 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Another methodology for hosting content could be distributed content sharing, instead of centralized database. I know I'd be willing to host 100MB/1GB of data to ensure accountability. Of course editing/correcting things becomes a nightmare.

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[–] jsprogrammer [S] ago 

Yeah, editing/correcting is definitely an issue. Probably one of the biggest. If you know of a solid solution that would allow people to host storage for a project like this, I'd love to hear about it.

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[–] sakuramboo 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Why not try to strike up a deal with archive.org instead? If all the footage and audio you have are public records then archive.org would be the best place for them.

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[–] jsprogrammer [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I would totally be open to that. So far, I have not really discussed this project outside of my own friend-group.