Smaug_the_Mighty
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Mae govannen! In this sub-forum, we are all about the content that will be uploaded to the ExLOTR Legacy Project website.
Firstly, Tony Meade’s episode summaries will form a large basis for our content work, so if you are unfamiliar with his excellent work, please head back to the main ExLOTR forum and have a look through his Episode Summaries subforum.
We are currently planning to make a wiki-style website with articles for each individual episode (each one based on Tony’s summary for that episode), as well as articles for each theme, discussion point, or main idea we have come across that features in more than one episode.
This means that we, as the content curators (or Elven Lore-masters as I like to think of us), need to brainstorm and identify each of the themes, discussion points, and main ideas we want to turn into a wiki article. We then need to collect the data on each of these themes from each episode they are featured in, and consolidate it in one article that can be uploaded to the wiki when the website has been forged by our tech team (the Dwarven Smiths).
To me, this seems to be the first step to getting content ready for the wiki, but I have a few other ideas that may also be helpful in preparing the content for the web:
Please use this sub-forum to discuss the content side of this project to your heart’s content. If you have any additional suggestions please add a comment below, or start a new thread. If you want to volunteer to do a specific task, please let us know in this sub-forum so that we don’t end up doing the same work twice.
Looking forward to working with you all!
Cheers, Jenni.
Firstly, Tony Meade’s episode summaries will form a large basis for our content work, so if you are unfamiliar with his excellent work, please head back to the main ExLOTR forum and have a look through his Episode Summaries subforum.
We are currently planning to make a wiki-style website with articles for each individual episode (each one based on Tony’s summary for that episode), as well as articles for each theme, discussion point, or main idea we have come across that features in more than one episode.
This means that we, as the content curators (or Elven Lore-masters as I like to think of us), need to brainstorm and identify each of the themes, discussion points, and main ideas we want to turn into a wiki article. We then need to collect the data on each of these themes from each episode they are featured in, and consolidate it in one article that can be uploaded to the wiki when the website has been forged by our tech team (the Dwarven Smiths).
To me, this seems to be the first step to getting content ready for the wiki, but I have a few other ideas that may also be helpful in preparing the content for the web:
- Adding video timecodes to Tony’s summaries, so that people can refer back to the recordings if they want to listen to the original discussion
- Summarising the episodes (and eventually the themes) down further for new participants to catch up, and for current participants to refresh their memories
- Audio and video editing to create highlight reels of specific themes, chapter summary episodes, small segments of video to embed on each episode page, etc.
- Digital Tolkien Project integration and use of LR Citation system
- Integrating discussion from the forums into the articles for each episode and each theme
Please use this sub-forum to discuss the content side of this project to your heart’s content. If you have any additional suggestions please add a comment below, or start a new thread. If you want to volunteer to do a specific task, please let us know in this sub-forum so that we don’t end up doing the same work twice.
Looking forward to working with you all!
Cheers, Jenni.