Congratulations !
Just wondering: how can the Wikispeech works with existing tools and
structures (in particular, I'm thinking about LinguaLibre - who just pass
90 000 records this week -, Lexemes on Wikidata and Structured Data
Commons, but there is probably others).
Cdlt, ~nicolas
Le jeu. 28 mars 2019 à 16:15, Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
Congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team!!
Looking forward to
contribute to these amazing projects.
Cheers,
Rajeeb(Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone
On 28-Mar-2019, at 8:28 PM, Lane Rasberry
<lane(a)bluerasberry.com> wrote:
Congratulations. I am excited especially for the "Bibliographical data on
Wikidata" part, where my university and many other universities around
the
world will join you in collaboration. I expect
that what Wikimedia
Sverige does in this space will set global precedent for how everyone in
research publishes and shares research. This is very good news and I will
look for an opportunity to collaborate in research and Wikidata content
curation.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:12 AM Stacy Allison-Cassin <sacassin(a)yorku.ca
wrote:
> To echo everyone else, congratulations! These projects sound amazing and
> I'm really looking forward to the results.
> Stacy
>
> Stacy Allison-Cassin, MMus, MISt, PhD Cand.
>
> Associate Librarian
>
> York University Libraries
>
>
> *York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory
of
> many Indigenous Nations. The area known as
Tkaronto has been care taken
by
> the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee
Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat,
> and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge
> the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
> This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt
Covenant,
> an agreement to peaceably share and care for
the Great Lakes region.*
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Wikidata <wikidata-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of
John
> Andersson
<john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:31 AM
> *To:* wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org;
> cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch; wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> *Subject:* [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500,
000+
> in funding for three new projects, and a cost
reduction of USD 30,
000/year
>
>
> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants
> totaling around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of
> these projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving
> updates please let me know.
>
> Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for
> our office space.
>
> Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector
>
> The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a
> text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From
> September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki
> extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add
pronunciations
> to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to
add more languages to the
> text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for
oral
> citations.
>
> The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS
> (a language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia
Deutschland
> and the Swedish Dyslexia Association.
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019…
>
> Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries
>
> From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library
of
> Sweden, will develop an online training
module for Swedish librarians
> focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be
a
> mandatory training for all of Sweden's
5,000 public librarians. Our
hope is
> to give all of them a basic understanding of
the Wikimedia projects, as
> well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the
> most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to
ongoingly
> organize activities and events independently
at their libraries across
the
> country.
>
> Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and
> FindingGLAMs campaigns.
>
> There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the
coming 3
> years if successful.
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan
>
> Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata
>
> We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The
> project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project
> will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020.
>
> Cost reduction
>
> Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily
> subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation.
> Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year
compared
> to when we had an office of our own.
>
> We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered
so
> important for the infrastructure of the
Internet. We are very happy that
> the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the
possibility to
> grow significantly over time as well (while
keeping the generous
subsidy).
Please contact John Andersson (john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se) if you have
any questions.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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