Kathleen Ludewig OmolloInternational Program Manager, Office of Enabling

TechnologiesUniversity of Michigan Medical School

ICTD2013 Conference, December 10, 2013Download slides:

http://openmi.ch/crwd-cc-ictd2013Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan

Policy SocialTechnical

Crowd-sourcing subtitles to increase access to educational

videos

Social

Policy: Individual Access

• Americans with Disabilities Act is reactive; institutions must respond to specific requests for accessibility. • e.g. student who is blind can request privileged access to full digital text from Google Books partnership with university library, including digital copies that are copyright restricted to general public.

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The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.

Source: http://president.umich.edu/mission.php

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Policy: Public Service

Policy: Public Access

• Privacy: • If you film someone and intend to publicly distribute result, you need his or her informed consent.

• Copyright:• Captions or translations are derivative works of the original video and require permission/license.

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Policy: Public Access

Open.Michigan (http://open.umich.edu), Two goals:

1. to sustain a thriving culture of sharing knowledge at U-M

2. to provide comprehensive public access to all of U-M’s scholarly output

“Open” by unbundling educational content so that it is portable across:▪ structures (e.g. courses, tutorials)▪mediums (e.g. print, digital, audio)▪ devices (e.g. desktop, tablet, phone)▪ types of networks (online, offline, hybrid)▪ audiences and markets (e.g. languages, K-12

vs. undergraduate, all free vs. free sample)6

Policy: Public Access

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Policy: Open.Michigan Content Formats

Quality ExamplesCompressed PDF, ZIP, FLV, SWF,

PNGEditable DOC, FLA, SVGEmbeddable, Buffered Watching or Browsing

YouTube, Internet Archive, Slideshare

Downloadable MP4

Captioning and Translation: Translator View in Amara.org

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Technical: Options

Subtitles – Openly Editablehttp://amara.org/ (formerly http://universalubtitles.org)

Design for Different Learner Styleshttp://www.floeproject.org/

Auto-transcribe audio; Auto-sync transcript; Sub-titles by invitationhttps://support.google.com/youtube/topic/3014331

Slides to Web Accessible Texthttp://slideshare.net

Captioning and Translation: Translator View in Amara.org

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Technical: Options

Text to Text (e.g. Language, Level)http://www.transifex.com/

MOOC from Open University UKon Open Translationhttp://www.ot12.org/

Captioning and Translation: Translator View in Amara.org

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Technical: Amara.org Features

• Participatory: Anyone can view, create, edit subtitle

• Versioning: Track, revert subtitles for given language

• Import/export in standard formats• Open source platform

Captioning and Translation: Translator View in Amara.org

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Technical: Amara.org Features

• API: Query number of subtitles and titles/languages for tracks

• Syncing: Edit in Amara, automatically push new subtitles, subtitle link to your YouTube channel

Captioning and Translation: Translator View in Amara.org

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Technical: Subtitle View in Amara.org

Image source:http://www.amara.org/en/videos/mgnz9QiwlRQS/info/staining-of-a-gram-positive-bacterium/, Fair Use

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Technical: Presentation on YouTube

Image Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3IR_DhynU, CC BY

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Technical: YouTube.com Features

• Turn captions on/off• Auto-transcribe or auto-translate• Search/browse captions to jump to

matching time in video.• If shared under Creative Commons

Attribution 3.0 license, a remix button allows you to copy the video your account to modify/mash-up.

Social: Ease Sign-Up, Promote Results

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Image sources:http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/med/microbiology/clinical-microbio-lab/2009, CC BY NC Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Cary Engleberg, Charles Agyei Osei

16Image source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvQWKcMdyS4 , Fair Use

Our captioning and translation is ongoing. All languages are encouraged.

Social: Ease Sign-Up, Promote Results

Social: Recognize Volunteers

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Screenshot of https://open.umich.edu/blog/2013/08/22/interview-with-eve-nabulya-luganda-translations-for-my-community/, CC BY Eve Nabulya

Social: Open.Michigan Caption Results*numbers from Nov. 21, 2013

# LANGUAGES PER VIDEO OTHER THAN ENGLISH

# VIDEOS

6 3

5 2

4 5

3 6

2 36

1 1

TOTAL VIDEOS *31 IN ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN, MORE ADDED LATER 53 18

# VOLUNTEERS PER COMPLETED TRANSLATION

# CAPTIONS

2 (TRANSLATOR AND REVIEWER)

43

1 96

TOTAL 139

More details: http://openmi.ch/translation-avu13

# CAPTIONS CONTRIBUTED

# VOLUN-TEERS

CONTRIBUTED >=1 caption

35

1 12

MAX = 31 1

MEDIAN 2

MEAN 4.63

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AFFILIATION OF VOLUNTEERS

# VOLUN-TEERS

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ACTIVE MEMBER OR ALUMNI

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EXTERNAL OR UNKNOWN

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More details: http://openmi.ch/translation-avu13

Social: Open.Michigan Caption Results*numbers from Nov. 21, 2013

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African Virtual University (AVU) ConferenceNovember 22, 2013

African Virtual University, Siyavula, University of Michigan

http://open.umich.edu/node/7915/

AVU Recap: Crowd-sourcingLessons from November Panel

AVU Recap: Lessons from Panel

1. Address copyright of original and captions (try open licenses)

2. Review original for quality, accuracy3. Design workflows to accommodate

varying time commitment, availability, levels of subject knowledge.

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4. Recruit volunteers using formal and informal social networks

5. Develop a lexicon of core technical terms for the given subject

6. Use software to manage parallel work and versioning

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AVU Recap: Lessons from Panel

7. Arrange proofreading 8. Review formatting of

captions/translations for consistency of style

9. Recognize or reward the contributions of volunteers

10. Promote the results (more volunteers, more learners) 23

AVU Recap: Lessons from Panel

Email: open.michigan@umich.edu

Twitter: @open_michigan

Access this slide set: http://openmi.ch/crwd-cc-ictd2013

Project details (ongoing sign-up):http://openmi.ch/translation-overview

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Thank You

Image sources: Paper, envelope icons from clker.com, public domain. Others from Twitter, Slideshare.