As some who is working with oral histories this sounds interesting, On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 00:08, Sailesh Patnaik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congratulations, John! > It's really nice to see that Wikimedia Sweden is bringing such amazing > initiatives to the movement. > > Regards! > > *Sailesh Patnaik *"*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ**"* > *Community Advocate, The Centre for Internet and Society* > https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 > *Twitter*: @saileshpat > > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:09 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > -- GN. Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Out now: A.Gaynor, P. Newman and P. Jennings (eds.), *Never Again: Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8*, UWAP, 2017. Order here <https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/never-again-reflections-on-environmental-responsibility-after-roe-8> .
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