Standardizing/resolving speaker codes

[aarppe]

As a result of multiple facilitators, we have ended up sometimes using multiple codes for the same speakers, which should be standardized.

An overview of known cases are presented here:

1. MAR <- JEAN (both refer unambiguously to Mary Jane Littlechild).
2. BRI <- BL1 (both usually refer umambiguously to Brian Lightning).

There are some cases where it is not certain whom the code is referring to:

1. BR2 -> BRI?
2. BR3 -> BRI?

We need to keep the facilitators separate from the speakers. The facilitator codes were supposed to be prefixed by E-XXX, i.e.

1. E-ANT <- arppe / Antti Arppe
2. E-ATT <- galvin / atticus / Atticus Harrigan

We should also add in the names for speaker codes that are (mostly) known, or need to be found out:

1. EMI
2. JON
3. CECILIA
4. JOE
5. CON

There's a few ambiguity codes that need to be resolved (potentially on an entry level):

1. ROS/ROS2
2. BL1/LOU

[fbanados]

Separating subtasks:

• MAR <- JEAN (both refer unambiguously to Mary Jane Littlechild).
• BRI <- BL1 (both usually refer umambiguously to Brian Lightning).
• Resolve BR2 and BR3 (Requires linguist expertise)
• Prefix facilitator codes

The ROS/ROS2 and BL1/LOU ambiguities will be then dealt manually right?

Also I will need a list of the names that the speakers in the list of mostly known speakers are, to actually act on that recommendation.

[fbanados]

I've updated the MAR and BRI entries, resolved all issues (total 18) where a "wrong speaker" suggestion for a recording with MAR and BRI has been suggested to have as its new speaker the one they currently have (i.e. those solved by the renaming), and removed the speakers JEAN and BL1 from the database.

[fbanados]

Rest of the resolution waits on a linguist with knowledge of the speakers doing manual work. The only thing left for me to do at this point is to add the names for the speakers that are (mostly) known, but for that I would need the names, either here or via a separate email.

Once I receive that information and update the entries, this issue becomes "DONE" on the software side, pending linguist resolution of the speaker code inconsistencies.

[fbanados]

From the spreadsheet:

arppe: I see the code BRI2, when we have used BL2 for Brian Lee (when everything is over, we might change that to BLE).