A very interesting project has been launched: Universal Subtitles (<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="O vídeo é hoje uma das principais formas de
comunicação."><a href="http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/" target="_blank">http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/</a>)</span></span> Please advertise it and help to develop this idea.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="O vídeo é hoje uma das principais formas de
comunicação."></span></span>The project is supported by Mozilla Drumbeat (<a href="http://www.drumbeat.org/" target="_blank">http://www.drumbeat.org/</a>)<br>
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<h2>Subtitles and Captions for Every Video on the Web</h2>
<p><i>Here’s the problem:</i> web video is beginning to rival
television, but there isn’t a good open resource for subtitling. <i>Here’s
our mission:</i> we’re trying to make captioning, subtitling, and
translating video publicly accessible in a way that’s free and open,
just like the Web.</p>
<p><b>Our approach:</b></p>
<ul><li>Make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate
subtitles for any video</li><li>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</li><li>Create a community space for people who subtitle video, to encourage
contributions and facilitate collaboration</li></ul>
<h3><b>Tools we’re building</b></h3>
<p><b>1) Subtitle Widget:</b> 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:</p>
<h2>Subtitles and Captions for Every Video on the Web</h2>
<p><i>Here’s the problem:</i> web video is beginning to rival
television, but there isn’t a good open resource for subtitling. <i>Here’s
our mission:</i> we’re trying to make captioning, subtitling, and
translating video publicly accessible in a way that’s free and open,
just like the Web.</p>
<p><b>Our approach:</b></p>
<ul><li>Make a simple and ubiquitous way to request, create, and translate
subtitles for any video</li><li>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</li><li>Create a community space for people who subtitle video, to encourage
contributions and facilitate collaboration</li></ul>
<h3><b>Tools we’re building</b></h3>
<p><b>1) Subtitle Widget:</b> 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:</p>
<p><b>2) Universal Subtitles Protocol:</b> 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.</p>
<p><b>3) Collaborative Subtitling Site: </b>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:</p>
<ul><li>Formation of teams for subtitling a program, or a topic.</li><li>Tracking which subtitling or translation tasks are the most
requested, and mobilizing volunteers.</li><li>Volunteers recruiting their friends for help transcribing or
translating a video.</li><li>Splitting large tasks into smaller parts</li></ul><br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade<br>FGV Direito Rio<br><br>Center of Technology and Society<br>
Getulio Vargas Foundation<br>
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil<br>
</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade<br>FGV Direito Rio<br><br>Center of Technology and Society<br>Getulio Vargas Foundation<br>Rio de Janeiro - Brazil<br>