Thanks John, for sharing the information, I am looking forward to contribute my part, all my best wishes for the grand success of the project. Thanks, Regards, Rajeeb Dutta, (Marajozkee). Sent from my iPhone
> On 18-Dec-2018, at 9:08 PM, John Andersson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $55,000 in support from the > grant-giving organization Kulturbryggan (Culture Bridge) for a project > investigating how to best include audio files on Wikimedia Commons. > > Our work will focus on batch uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons > (with a focus on music recordings). In preparations for this, we will > investigate how the metadata can be included in a way that is best suited for > Structured Data once it gets deployed. This is a pilot project where we aim > to discuss with the community what to include and what to exclude. The > discussions and the requests from the community will form our planning around > future work with uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons. We look > forward working with the community and with the Structured Data team at > Wikimedia Foundation on how metadata about audio files can be included in a > well-structured and useful way. > > This project will connect very closely to the FindingGLAMs project[1] and > will form one of the case studies included in it. In the case study we will > provide guidance for other GLAMs and Wikimedia affiliates who want to upload > audio files in the future. > > The project also connects closely to Wikimedia Sverige’s planned project > aimed at building tools to collect speech recordings. The recordings, > illustrating how words are pronounced etc., will then be used to improve the > quality of Wikispeech[2], a text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written > text into speech. We want to see what type of speech recordings can and > should be stored on Wikimedia Commons and what kind of metadata should be > included there; this project will help us clarify the needs. > > Please contact John Andersson ([email protected]) if you have any > questions. > > As always, you can find the full application available on our wiki (in > Swedish).[3] > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech > [3] > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Fri_musik_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia_2019/Ans%C3%B6kan > > > Best, > > John > - - - - > John Andersson > Executive Director > Wikimedia Sverige > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > Email: [email protected] > Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm > > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
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