| Hi Can we look at transcribing files on oral history from India, then? This Project is important new ground on oral histories and how Wikipedia seems to be handling these. WikiSource seems to be taking it an interesting direction as well. Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone |
| ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> Date: 21 September 2013 17:09 Subject: Pitch In! Oral History transcription pilot To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Pip Kelly <Philippa.Kelly@slq.qld.gov.au> Hi, The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) Pitch In! project has three more weeks to go. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_SLQ New users and anons are still appearing whenever the SLQ promote the project on social media. e.g. https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&days=30&from=&target=Index%3AAustralian_enquiry_book_of_household_and_general_information.djvu SLQ has added an oral history to be transcribed, and after a bit of fiddling we have the transcription project ready. It is a 1h20m interview of Ian Charlton, a retired Queensland architect. SLQ has a large collection of similar interviews of significant architects, and hope this pilot will clear the way for more similar uploads. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Ian_Charlton.ogg The Proofread Page software doesnt have any special support for ogg files, however each page has a player preset to the desired starting point for transcription. The player should jump forward without needing to download the 80meg audio file. e.g. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Ian_Charlton.ogg/17 This transcription can then be 'incorporated' into the ogg file using the new Timed Media Handler. I've done a quick demo here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Ian_Charlton.ogg.en.srt This is new territory for Wikisource, and the Commons timedtext feature is also fairly new to most of us. It would be great if a few members of this list can play around with this ogg project a little and report problems. Next week newbies will be asked to contribute to this transcription. There is a centralised discussion at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Transcribing_audio -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l |