Crowd sourcing Welsh language data in the Covid era
Welsh language place names risk being forgotten as people choose to use English versions of street names, properties, towns and villages and even rename properties with English names. Many official datasets for historic buildings in Wales do not record the original Welsh names. This presentation wil...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/5947 2023-05-15T14:23:47+02:00 Crowd sourcing Welsh language data in the Covid era Evans, Jason 2021-10-19 video/mp4 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5947 https://doi.org/10.7557/5.5947 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5947/6252 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5947 doi:10.7557/5.5947 Copyright (c) 2021 Jason Evans https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC-BY-SA Septentrio Conference Series; No. 3 (2021): Arctic Knot Conference 2021 2387-3086 10.7557/scs.2021.3 Arctic Knot Conference 2021 Covid Welsh language info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Webinar 2021 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/5.5947 https://doi.org/10.7557/scs.2021.3 2021-10-20T22:54:10Z Welsh language place names risk being forgotten as people choose to use English versions of street names, properties, towns and villages and even rename properties with English names. Many official datasets for historic buildings in Wales do not record the original Welsh names. This presentation will look at how we have adapted our projects to work online during the Pandemic, and how we are crowdsourcing Welsh names of Wales' built heritage and adding them to Wikidata. The talk will focus on the activities of our recent Wicipics project which saw the public contribute remotely, creating Welsh language data and sharing their openly licenced images of historic sites in their area. This session will also look at how we might use this data to enrich our historic record. For example, by combining with OpenStreetMap to develop a Welsh language map interface and by sharing our crowdsourced data with 3rd party websites and other Welsh heritage organisations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Arctic Septentrio Conference Series 3 |
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Welsh language place names risk being forgotten as people choose to use English versions of street names, properties, towns and villages and even rename properties with English names. Many official datasets for historic buildings in Wales do not record the original Welsh names. This presentation will look at how we have adapted our projects to work online during the Pandemic, and how we are crowdsourcing Welsh names of Wales' built heritage and adding them to Wikidata. The talk will focus on the activities of our recent Wicipics project which saw the public contribute remotely, creating Welsh language data and sharing their openly licenced images of historic sites in their area. This session will also look at how we might use this data to enrich our historic record. For example, by combining with OpenStreetMap to develop a Welsh language map interface and by sharing our crowdsourced data with 3rd party websites and other Welsh heritage organisations. |
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