Commons:BBC voice project
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Andy Mabbett worked with the BBC to help them to open licence a selection of audio "snippets" of notable people talking, from certain of their radio programmes. See the BBC blog post launching the project.
Please note that the BBC 'retains copyright on the full programmes and only excerpts which the BBC have explicitly released under an open licence may be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
Event
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On Saturday, 18 January 2014 the BBC, the Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons UK and the Wikimedia community teamed up to host an open event, "Speakerthon", at New Broadcasting House, London.
Attendees were given access to the Radio 4 permanent audio archive, the tools to take samples of voice recordings and the opportunity to upload them to Wikimedia Commons for inclusion into Wikipedia.
The hashtag for the day was #Speakerthon; please use it on Twitter and Facebook, and tag any images you upload to Flickr, blog posts, etc., as "Speakerthon". If you do blog about the event, please let us know!
What to do
[edit]Please see Commons:BBC voice project/what to do.
Articles
[edit]The following Wikipedia articles could usefully be created (please feel free to add to this list):
Programmes
[edit]- en:Archive on 4
- en:Four Thought
- en:MI6: A Century in the Shadows
- en:Open Book (radio)
- en:The Life Scientific
People
[edit]- en:Fay Maschler - restaurant critic
- en:Sophie Scott - Professor; @sophiescott on Twitter; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7510-6297
- en:Angela Gallop - forensic scientist
- en:Andrea Sella - stub at en:User:The_chemistds/Andrea Sella; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4263-8577
- en:Pat Wolseley - botanist
- en:Elizabeth Stokoe - social psychologist
- en:Amoret Whitaker - entomologist
- en:Mark Lythgoe - medical researcher, stub at en:User:Hillbillyholiday/Articles/Mark_Lythgoe; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4945-0171
Results
[edit]Files uploaded are in:
We've also created:
Commons categories
[edit]- Radio 3
- Category:BBC Radio 4
- Category:A Good Read
- Category:Archive on 4
- Category:Bookclub
- Category:Desert Island Discs
- Category:Four Thought
- Category:Front Row
- Category:Great Lives
- Category:In Our Time
- Category:Mastertapes
- Category:MI6: A Century in the Shadows
- Category:Open Book
- Category:Reith Lectures
- Category:Saturday Live
- Category:The Film Programme
- Category:The Infinite Monkey Cage
- Category:The Life Scientific
- Category:The New Elizabethans
- Category:Today programme
Wikipedia articles
[edit]Other
[edit]Media created on the day, such as pictures of the participants at work, is in:
Coverage
[edit]- See also Commons:Voice intro project/Coverage
- "Speakerthon: uploading voice samples from the Radio 4 archive to Wikipedia" - BBC blog post launching the event
- "BBC open licences voice samples from radio programmes; 'Speakerthon' event invitation" by Andy Mabbett
- "Speakerthon update" - pre-event BBC post
- "Speakerthon: Sharing Voice Samples" by Marieke Guy, Open Knowledge Foundation
- "Speakerthon 2014: Reusing BBC audio" by Zemedia
- "With the 'Cyborgs' at Speakerthon" by Tim O'Riordan
- "Stephen Fry launches project to save voices for posterity"
- "Wikipedia Archiving Voices So You'll Always Know How Celebs Sound" - NPR radio, USA, 3 February 2014