A very interesting project has been launched: Universal Subtitles (http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/) Please advertise it and help to develop this idea. The project is supported by Mozilla Drumbeat (http://www.drumbeat.org/) Subtitles and Captions for Every Video on the Web Here’s the problem: web video is beginning to rival television, but there isn’t a good open resource for subtitling. Here’s our mission: we’re trying to make captioning, subtitling, and translating video publicly accessible in a way that’s free and open, just like the Web. Our approach: * Make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate subtitles for any video * Work with others to define open protocols so that whenever subtitles for a video exist, any website or video player will be able to retrieve them * Create a community space for people who subtitle video, to encourage contributions and facilitate collaboration Tools we’re building 1) Subtitle Widget: We’re developing an incredibly user friendly interface for adding captions to almost any video on the web (without the hassle of re-transcoding or re-uploading). We’ll be launching a demo very soon, but here’s a sneak peek: Subtitles and Captions for Every Video on the Web Here’s the problem: web video is beginning to rival television, but there isn’t a good open resource for subtitling. Here’s our mission: we’re trying to make captioning, subtitling, and translating video publicly accessible in a way that’s free and open, just like the Web. Our approach: * Make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate subtitles for any video * Work with others to define open protocols so that whenever subtitles for a video exist, any website or video player will be able to retrieve them * Create a community space for people who subtitle video, to encourage contributions and facilitate collaboration Tools we’re building 1) Subtitle Widget: We’re developing an incredibly user friendly interface for adding captions to almost any video on the web (without the hassle of re-transcoding or re-uploading). We’ll be launching a demo very soon, but here’s a sneak peek: 2) Universal Subtitles Protocol: A new open standard that will allow clients such as Firefox extensions, desktop video players, websites, or browsers to look up and download matching subtitles from a whitelist of subtitle databases when they play video. 3) Collaborative Subtitling Site: An online community for collaboratively subtitling and translating the world’s videos (like a Wikipedia for subtitles). The site will have special tools for versioning, incentives for different types of collaboration, and all subtitles created here will be available in any context via our open protocol. The site will exist to encourage dynamics like: * Formation of teams for subtitling a program, or a topic. * Tracking which subtitling or translation tasks are the most requested, and mobilizing volunteers. * Volunteers recruiting their friends for help transcribing or translating a video. * Splitting large tasks into smaller parts -- Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade FGV Direito Rio Center of Technology and Society Getulio Vargas Foundation Rio de Janeiro - Brazil -- Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade FGV Direito Rio Center of Technology and Society Getulio Vargas Foundation Rio de Janeiro - Brazil plain text document attachment (message-footer.txt) ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: governance@lists.cpsr.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ anriette esterhuysen - executive director association for progressive communications p o box 29755 melville - south africa 2109 anriette@apc.org - tel/fax + 27 11 726 1692 http://www.apc.org ======================================= APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. _______________________________________________ apc.forum mailing list apc.forum@lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum