OpenCourt aims to create a model for judicial transparency in the U.S as envisioned by our Founders. This Knight News Challenge pilot project streams live daily coverage and posts it onto the Internet daily. The project seeks to make courts more accessible to the public through technology while respecting legitimate concerns about privacy.

Our streaming and archive videos represent a firehose of information. How do we increase the value of this raw footage -- by helping people use it, by contextualizing the content and meta-data such as subject tags to better organize and increase access to the information gathered.

Other challenges we face are how to scale up beyond a single courtroom and how to make the project sustainable.