SCOLA Digital Archive is a collection of authentic SCOLA videos. Videos can be viewed online from the SCOLA website, or saved in MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 format to your computer for later use. Search for specific videos by country, language, broadcast date, broadcast station, and more.

Login. Select the Digital Archive icon on the SCOLA homepage.

Searching may be conducted in a number of ways. This section details how to search for videos using various filters. To see more information about Phonetic Search and Speech to Text, see below.

Begin a search by clicking on the search icon located on the left side of the page. Searches can be performed by filling in any of the search criteria boxes (country, language, program names, program types, stations, topical categories, date range, word search), but starting with country and/or language generally produces the best results. After making a selection for any of the criteria, only the corresponding options will appear in the remaining criteria boxes. The more criteria that are selected, the smaller the result set will be.

If an unwanted selection is made from one of the menus, simply highlight the selection by clicking on it, and click "remove."

After the search criteria have been selected, click the search icon at the bottom of the page. This will bring you to your result set page.

If you wish to change the search criteria after the search has been completed, click "search" on the left side of the page. The search panel will show up with the criteria that have already been set. Make any additions by going to any of the drop down menus, or delete by highlighting and clicking "remove" button.

Videos that result from your search are listed most to least recent. At the top of the page is the number of videos found as well as the number of pages. Each page contains references to 10 videos, and pages can be navigated either by entering the desired page number, or by using the arrows.

Phonetic Search and the basic Search are set up in much the same way. In the Phonetic Search drop downs, only languages and corresponding countries are listed that have phonetic search capabilities. To enable the phonetic section of the word search box, select a language (after making a selection from any of the boxes, only the corresponding options will be available in the other boxes).

Enter the phonetic word, then click "add," then "search." A screen will pop up that will show estimated time remaining. Smaller date range selections will minimize time to get result set.

In the result set, each file's metadata shows how many times your word is in that file and a phonetic score. The closer the phonetic score is to 100, the more likely it is that the search has produced accurate results.

Click on the thumbnail to open the video, which will automatically begin to play. To the right of the video is a list of file details that give more information.

After clicking on the thumbnail (and subsequently starting the player), you also have the option of downloading the video in segments or in its entirety.

To download the entire video, click either MP2 or MP4 under "download entire file," depending on which format you choose.

In order to save a particular segment, first choose either MP2 or MP4 format under "File Type" (located under the video). Next, scroll the cursor beneath the video to where you would like the segment to start. At this point, click on the "mark in" icon. Here, there is the option of pressing play to view the video, or grabbing the cursor again to move to where you want the end of your segment to be. Once there, click the "mark out" icon. Then click "add." (To start this process again, simply press "clear"). Multiple segments on one video may be created. After finishing, click on the "create segments" icon. A file name along with file type, date of creation, and status will show up under recent downloads. When the file has finished processing, a file icon will appear. From this point, the file can be saved as a .zip file.

Start a new search by clicking "reset" on the search page.

Selecting Speech to Text takes the user directly to the BBN website where users may search for machine translated material in a limited number of languages.