[OpenGLAM] Fwd: [GLAM] NLS content live on Wikimedia Commons

Fri Jun 13 15:04:06 UTC 2014

Woot!
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From: "Crockford, Ally" <a.crockford at nls.uk>
Date: Jun 13, 2014 7:28 AM
Subject: [GLAM] NLS content live on Wikimedia Commons
To: "glam at lists.wikimedia.org" <glam at lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:

 Hi all,

I am very happy to announce that the first three batches of digital content
from the National Library of Scotland’s collections have been successfully
uploaded to Wikimedia Commons this week! This follows the acceptance in
March 2014 of a library-wide policy that places all NLS-generated metadata
under a CC-0 licence; digital content will be released under either a CC-0
or CC-BY-NC-SA licence (for the time being the NLS has chosen to licence
its master .tiff files as CC-BY-NC-SA but the policy will be reviewed
annually so we can only hope this is temporary). The Library will be
issuing an official press release early next week and the policy itself
will be available on our website.

Although it’s a small batch yet, this is still extremely exciting progress
and is the result of a combined effort from the NLS and Wikimedia UK;
hopefully it is just the first in many projects of this type both at the
NLS and at other Scottish organisations!

See the released content here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tay_Bridge_disaster

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Construction_of_the_Forth_Bridge

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Scotia_Depicta

Cheers,
Ally

Ally Crockford

Wikimedian-In-Residence

National Library of Scotland
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