[OpenGLAM] [ok-scotland] Open Licensing at the National Library of Scotland

Mon Nov 3 10:30:01 UTC 2014

Hi Euan, 

Many thanks for highlighting these initiatives. These are hugely positive developments both in terms of sharing CC0 metadata and increasing access to open licensed cultural heritage resources, both of which have significant relevance to open education.  Congratulations to all those at the National Library involved in these initiatives.  

Best Wishes
Lorna

On 2 Nov 2014, at 14:22, Ewan Klein wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> The National Library of Scotland is working on procedures and guidance to support a new and developing Metadata and Digital Content Licensing policy. As part of this work the Library has released collection metadata associated with the First World War Official Photographs under a CC0 license to The European Library (TEL) for inclusion in both its portal and in Europeana. The Library will continue to release further CC0 licensed metadata to TEL and Europeana over the coming months.
> 
> The policy development is also being informed by a limited release of digital content to the WikiCommons project.  More than 1,000 digital images have been released into the Public Domain, including photographs of the construction of the Forth Bridge and The Tay Bridge Disaster enquiry; images from the historic book Scotia Depicta; nineteenth century posters and photographs from Edinburgh theatres; and images from Walter Blaikie’s collection of Jacobite broadsides.
> 
> See more at: http://scot.okfn.org/2014/10/27/open-licensing-at-the-national-library-of-scotland
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ewan
> 
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