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From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
Date: 21 September 2013 17:09
Subject: Pitch In! Oral History transcription pilot
To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Pip Kelly <Philippa.Kelly(a)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&…
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
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John Vandenberg