Hello,
Wow! It's wonderful news. Congratulations to the people who have put effort
and time. :)
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, 21:41 camelia boban <camelia.boban(a)gmail.com wrote:
Great news John, congratulations to all Wikimedia
Sverige, we are so proud.
An experiment that certainly can help other projects.
Camelia,
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Il giorno mar 18 dic 2018 alle ore 16:49 Alex Stinson <
astinson(a)wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
Congratulations John! Its awesome that you are
spending so much energy on
developing case studies and examples of collaboration for the movement.
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:38 AM John Andersson <
john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>
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 (john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se) 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%…
Best,
John
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