Title of Transcribed Page

[Scott Guthery]

How does one set the title of a transcribed page?  Mine keep coming out MQ.MQ.

Thanks for any insight.

Cheers, Scott

[Jim Safley]

On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 9:39:20 AM UTC-4, Scott Guthery wrote:

How does one set the title of a transcribed page?  Mine keep coming out MQ.MQ.

On what platform are you using Scripto? On what page are you seeing the title "MQ.MQ"?

Jim

[Katherine Martinez]

Hi Scott–did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same issue and I'd like to figure out how to associate some kind of identifier that will link transcriptions to the item. 

-Katie

On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 9:39:20 AM UTC-4, Scott Guthery wrote:

[Jim Safley]

Katie,

I assume you're using Omeka's Scripto plugin. You should not see titles similar to "MQ.MQ." within Omeka. Scripto encodes Omeka titles like this when saving transcriptions to the back end MediaWiki database, and decodes them to their original form when rendering in Omeka. [1] Can you be more specific about your problem and what you're trying to accomplish?

Jim

[1] https://github.com/chnm/Scripto#base64-decoding

[Katherine Martinez]

Hi Jim, 

Thanks for the reply! You're right the mq.mq is only in MediaWiki. I have been looking at ways to extract the transcriptions but I'm finding when I use the export function in MediaWiki, the xml document doesn't seem to output a unique identifier or title associated with the transcription. Does that seem right? I'd like an additional metadata element to be output so I can associate transcriptions with the correct object. 

-Katie

[Jim Safley]

I think your best option is to import the transcriptions into Omeka using the provided "Import document" button on the transcribe page. (You must be logged in to Scripto as an administrator to see the button.) Then export the transcriptions from Omeka using our API: http://omeka.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Reference/api/

Otherwise you'll need to find some way to alter the MediaWiki export output to decode titles from Base64. I'm not sure if MediaWiki provides such a hook, but here is how we've decoded titles in MediaWiki display pages: https://github.com/chnm/Scripto#base64-decoding

Jim