Labelling and metadata (software)
Tom Honeyman
t.honeyman at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 4 07:14:54 UTC 2010
Thank you John, that looks extremely interesting! I look forward to
hearing more about it.
-tom
On 04/05/2010, at 12:21 PM, John Hatton wrote:
> On my recording trip, I used some open-source software we’re
> developing which manages all the folders, meta data, etc. for you.
> This kind of thing is how I answer Greg’s question:
>
> > One thing I'm also interested in is not just what are good methods
> of labeling and adding metadata, but how does it work for you in
> reality? How well do you stick to your chosen method?
>
> I hesitate to mention software you can’t actually get yet, but ah
> well, I think in the future this group may help us “get it right”.
> We don’t have a good name for it yet, the code name is “Sponge”.
> The intent at this time is to help organize and name files, collect
> metadata, and help evaluate your progress towards goals and coverage
> (e.g. discourse types) so you know where to concentrate effort.
> There are other applications out there doing some of these things,
> too: this is just SIL’s contribution, tuned to the situations/field
> workers we are familiar with.
>
> I found having this organizing software extremely helpful, not being
> much of an organizer/detail person, myself. One beauty of it for me
> was that I could use the inevitable down time in the village to type
> in everything in my paper notebook into a low-power netbook running
> Sponge, sometimes realizing that I hadn’t entered important
> information. If I had waited until I returned home, it would have
> been too late. Here’s a screenshot of how my data looked at the end:
>
> <image001.jpg>
>
> You’ll notice the “files” tab; under there, I have a list of all the
> files associated with the current session (event). I can right-click
> on a file (e.g. a wav) in order to give it a canonical name like
> we’re discussing in this thread. I can also add meta data, such as
> what equipment was used to make the recordings. That program stores
> that meta data in a simple xml file adjacent to the one being
> annotated. For example, a video named “ETR003_Original.avi” would
> have get a partner named “ETR003.Original.avi.meta”.
>
> The folder structure managed by Sponge looks like this:
>
> Edolo Language Documentation Project
> People
> Agale Tofona
> Agale Tofona.jpg
> Agale
> Tofona_consent.jpg
> Agale Tofona.person
> Andaru Maga
> Awi Heolo
> Etc.
> Sessions
> ETR001
> ETR001.session
> ETR001_Original.MOV
> ETR001_MonoExtract.WAV
> ETR001_Scene.jpg
>
> ETR001_Transcription.txt
> ETR002
> Etc.
>
>
> Ok, so it is still early days with this software, we’re not really
> advertising for testers yet, and it currently only runs on Windows.
> Before long, we’ll be adding at least OLAC, maybe IMDI support,
> probably spreadsheet import/export. The current discussion and
> others are shaping what we do… if anyone is interested in helping to
> further steer the development so it meets your needs, please let me
> know.
> John Hatton
> SIL Papua New Guinea, Palaso, & SIL International Software Development
> Chat Google Talk: hattonjohn Skype: hattonjohn Google Wave: hattonjohn at googlewave.com
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