OK, this isn't better than 'crude-but-working', but tooling is in place for further work.

resources/public/data/japji-nihung-timings.edn

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ;; converted from japji-nihung-timings.json using http://cljson.com/
+;; TODO: NOTE THAT, because I have found no way to import EDN into
+;; a running Scittle session, this file is not currently used --
+;; but it is left here as a reminder that it would be the right thing
+;; to do!
 
 [{:words [{:text "ੴ", :start 3.482, :end 5.761}],
   :lineStart 3.482,

resources/public/data/japji-nihung-timings.json

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-data-js = [
+/* Timings as supplied by Lucy */
+
+data = [
   {
     "words": [
       {