Every interview's curated transcript can round-trip through a single JSON file.
Exporting
On the review screen, click Export JSON. The file contains paragraphs with speakers and timings, resolved flags, chapters with topics, and footnotes. Raw word-level data is not included.
Importing
- On the review screen, Import JSON replaces the current transcript.
- On the media page, Import transcript JSON is available for media that have never been processed. This lets a transcript authored outside Omeka be imported without running the AI pipeline at all.
Importing replaces paragraphs, speakers, chapters and footnotes wholesale and always returns the interview to the review queue. Raw word-level timestamps are never touched. Footnotes whose linked items do not exist on the importing site are kept with the link dropped, and a warning is shown.
Authoring a transcript externally
Only paragraphs is required. Speakers are referenced by name and created on import. See Transcript JSON Format for the full schema.
{
"format": "oral-archivist-transcript",
"format_version": 1,
"language": "en",
"paragraphs": [
{ "start_ms": 0, "end_ms": 14480, "speaker": "Eleanor Marsh",
"text": "We would walk to the schoolhouse daily." }
]
}