[Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs
Wed Aug 4 20:47:57 UTC 2010


Дана Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:22:37 Cristian Consonni написа:
> I am really sorry about that and, in my opinion, this is a major
> problem with volunteer-driven interviews. Usually there are a lot of
> questions to ask and even if the interviewer make some (arbitrary)
> selection in my experience this results in long (> 1 h) interviews.
> We are used to report integrally what the interviewees have said
> (besides some style corrections to make the text readable), unlike
> newspapers we don't have problems of space and we think the best thing
> to do is to report things exactly as they have been said.
> So the main effort is the transcription and the editing of the
> interviews and for 1h/2h interviews this can take weeks.
>
> I really don't know if there is a solution for this.

Publish the interview in .ogg format, then if needed volunteers can transcribe 
it?



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