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I love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it’s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allur

I love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it’s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allure is that the archive is so vast, but that makes it hard to browse. My partner made her own archive of In Our Time here, if you’re interested: https://shelby.cool/melvyn/ https://shelby.cool/melvyn/ She used Wikipedia to find and categorize each episode. I also really like that she indexed episodes by guest, too. Certain guests are REALLY good and have been on many episodes. Super excited to see someone else make an archive; we’ll definitely be exploring yours!

genmon 4y ago
No way! This is incredible. That h1 "Hello," <3 Is the tagging manual? It's really good.
- astroalex 4y ago
  It's definitely not manual, here are the scripts she used to generate the archive: https://github.com/shelbywilson/melvyn/tree/main/scripts https://github.com/shelbywilson/melvyn/tree/main/scripts
zeristor 4y ago
That's really impressive. I've had a mild idea for ages to have a sort of annotated In Our Time. Listening to the podcast on a webpage as the text rolls by links could appear to explain or give background to the item or person being discussed. SMIL is the multi-media mark up language. Generally if one thinks of something there's someone on the Internet who has already had that idea. Additional: I think the BBC is very careful about transciptions. They've sold a book of the transcripts of several episodes, but it would be a great way to go through a subject.
bscphil 4y ago
> She used Wikipedia to find and categorize each episode. This is a really clever use of an existing dataset. I clicked through before reading this and was stunned by how thorough the tag set was. Even more obscure things like "Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford" have multiple episodes. I'm going to keep this in mind on future projects for sure.

genmon 4y ago

No way! This is incredible. That h1 "Hello," <3 Is the tagging manual? It's really good.

astroalex 4y ago
It's definitely not manual, here are the scripts she used to generate the archive: https://github.com/shelbywilson/melvyn/tree/main/scripts https://github.com/shelbywilson/melvyn/tree/main/scripts

zeristor 4y ago

That's really impressive. I've had a mild idea for ages to have a sort of annotated In Our Time. Listening to the podcast on a webpage as the text rolls by links could appear to explain or give background to the item or person being discussed. SMIL is the multi-media mark up language. Generally if one thinks of something there's someone on the Internet who has already had that idea. Additional: I think the BBC is very careful about transciptions. They've sold a book of the transcripts of several episodes, but it would be a great way to go through a subject.

bscphil 4y ago

> She used Wikipedia to find and categorize each episode. This is a really clever use of an existing dataset. I clicked through before reading this and was stunned by how thorough the tag set was. Even more obscure things like "Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford" have multiple episodes. I'm going to keep this in mind on future projects for sure.